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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19.02.03 Translocations, local globalities.
Translocations is an exhibition of works of network art held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (USA), which tries to discover how →
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17:02:03 Synthia, life stock data.
Synthia is an anthropomorphic virtual agent that reflects its attitudes and behavior with the trend of the stock market. It →
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18.02.03 Shorten, lossless high compression.
After mp3 and the wonderful Ogg Vorbis, a new compression format is becoming famous among the net musicians. It’s called Shorten, and →
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17:02:03 Reality Hacking, use the reality in unconventional ways.
Hackers are generally portrayed as people fleeing from reality immersed in the dimension of cyberspace and →
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17:02:03 Public Internet Project: the network for everyone.
The Public Internet Project is an association of New York whose main objective is to 'promote open →
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17:02:03 INN_SS02_e1, sound construction kit.
The extreme flexibility of visual programming of the web is leading to the dissolution of the concept of sequencing, replaced →
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17:02:03 Flopla, sounds and forms in symbiosis.
The size of the web and motion graphics capabilities of the enlarged band are raw materials with which →
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17:02:03 broadband as a right.
The digital divide is being fought from the beginning. This must have been the principle that led the KHC (Kentucky →
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17:02:03 Days in a Day, urban solitude in flash graphics.
Days in a Day is a narrative in Flash of the loneliness of a person →
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14:02:03 Archive conferences of the Tate Modern Gallery.
is now available online archive of conferences conducted in 2001 and 2002 at the Tate Modern in →
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17.02.03 Injunction Generator, Ubermorgen’s legal art.
With their usual controversial and iconoclast spirit, Ubermorgen, an artist group created by some of the members of Etoy, realized The →
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14:02:03 Concrete_Maschine, the text as abstract visual composition.
Concrete_Maschine is a conceptual work of Johannes Auer which is inspired by the historical avant-garde and their →
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14:02:03 Audioscrobbler, the music that I'd like.
Audioscrobbler is a university project by Richard Jones who tries to analyze the music listened to suggest new →
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13.02.03 Weekender: V_, Le Chemin des Machines, Turntable Against War, Make Cheese, Not War, Philip Jeck, Badmarsh, John Duncan, Dino Felipe.
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