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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02/10/03 Icon's Story, the infighting of the icons of XP.
Icon's Story ? a short movie in Flash, created by Maso digital studio, which tells →
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10.02.03 Anti-Gravity, the beauty of the organization of abstract spaces.
Abstract space and its interface issues are 'liquid', regimentation so elusive art, as in architecture →
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11.02.03 1970: the IBM 1403 printer plays a tune.
Long before the orchestrations of [The User] and their symphony for needle printers, →
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07:02:03 ZNC Browser, interpret the text with sound and color.
It is available version 2.0 of the browser ZNC Peter Luining, a free software for →
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07:02:03 Weekender: DJ Spooky, Metro Area, Santos.
– Friday "February 7, 2003: New York, for the first time in Italy, Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, →
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02/07/03 Surveillance & Society, international journal of surveillance studies.
New issue of the journal ' Surveillance & Society, the international journal of surveillance studies ', →
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2.7.03 Minimal Porn, porn essential.
The collective Sexyshock of Bologna is not new initiatives that seek to undermine the traditional stereotypes of sexual representation. Minimal →
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06:02:03 Ten Second Film, a competition for iperbrevi sequences.
If there is a correlation between the increasing materiality of the information, the reduction of leisure →
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07.02.03 GoogleSynth, new images from Google’s archives.
GoogleSynth is a software developed by Paul Andrews which generates a synthetic image using data from two other images taken →
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06:02:03 The anti-pornography filters schools do not work.
One more proof of the unreliability of anti-pornography filters mandated by federal law in the USA computers →
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06:02:03 A database leads a program on the radio.
Carson Daly is an American journalist who has earned fame and fortune before as the host →
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05:02:03 The vinyl suffer with the new turntables.
Sales of turntables are starting to grow again after a decade of stagnation. And although no one →
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06.02.03 Maid in Cyberspace festival, cyberfeminist art.
From February 4th to 8th, in Montreal (Canada), will be held the sixth edition of the Maid In Cyberspace Festival, →
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05:02:03 Imagina 2003 Entertainment and digital images.
Inaugurated on 3 February, the new edition of Imagina , the historic festival image synthesis which takes place →
