Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
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28.02.03 Tune (In))), music in the transmitters.
Saturday, March 1, the New York Center for the Media Arts presents an event exceptional, that builds on →
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28.02.03 Site Arabia censored because it promoted reforms.
The Saudi authorities have blocked access to a popular website used by liberals in the country to →
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28.02.03 Pixelscapes, digital chromatic minimalism.
The color rendering of objects can transcend their form, monopolizing our senses, especially when the animation gradually covers the entire →
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27.02.03 cameras control in classrooms.
A BBC News article reveals that the city of Manchester has announced a request for public funds to a plan →
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04.03.03 Metapod digital arts festival.
On February 27 opened in Birmingham (UK) the third Metapod digital arts festival, which brings in this city the works commissioned by →
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26.02.03 Media Arts Festival in Tokyo.
On February 27, at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography of Tokyo, will be awarded the Media Arts Festival prizes. A jury →
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27.02.03 Disembodied Voices, the voices on the phone between public and private.
The fine line of public space and private phone conversations is a breeding →
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27.02.03 Bubl-space, silence imagined.
There may be a technological gadget that makes us enjoy a rare silence programmed, immersed in noise, other people's conversations and →
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26.02.03 TaggerTrap, suppress the graffiti.
Graffiti street are considered by benpensati a classical form of vandalism, in lieu of proof features street art that they →
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26.02.03 RTTY-art, the grandparents of ascii-art.
Before the racy photos of characters made for the Commodore 64, before the signature of Fidonet and newsgroups ASCII-art →
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26.02.03 inflect, a magazine of electronic literature.
After the excellent output of the last years of Beehive , here's another appearance on the web magazine →
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26.02.03 Alluvium, radio peer-to-peer networks.
Alluvium is a project presented at the annual CodeCon and promises to become another standard for sharing data online. Described →
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25.02.03 vOICe, see with sounds.
Countless are now attempts to tie in glove picture and sound, with correlations of aesthetic, conceptual and technical. A report →
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25.02.03 Hydan, hide messages in executable code.
While steganography to hide messages imperceptibly altering an image, a new approach which is based on a technique →
