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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01.21.03 The UN funds the wi-fi in Bangladesh.
Access to the Internet in Bangladesh has so far suffered from expensive and unreliable telephone connections. Even →
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21:01:03 Speak and Spells changed from toy to electronic instrument.
The electronic toys have a heart, and just a bit 'of talent to do it →
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21:01:03 Digital Mona Lisa, the first ascii art.
Despite remaining little information on its production process the so-called ' Digital Mona Lisa ', continues after →
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27.01.03 Arc, digital distorsions software.
‘Arc‘ is a software made by the mysterious ‘Meta.am’, an artist who never disclosed his real identity, even if he periodically updates →
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01/20/03 Trippy Mirror, the infinite recursion.
Trippy Mirror is an experiment in Flash that hypnotically manages to make recursive image inside of it ad infinitum, →
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20:01:03 Theremin in wi-fi with Linux.
One of the best hack of the year just begun, with the help of a few lines of code →
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22.01.03 Swappingtons, exchanging books and records on the web.
Swappingtons is the new community site which attempts to give shape to a well-functioning form of exchange through →
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21.01.03 L’oading, genetically modified videogames.
On January 17th, at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Montevergini in Syracuse, opens the exhibition ‘L’OADING, genetically modified videogames’, which gathers ten →
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20.01.03 Knit + +., Workers of the network and their predecessors.
Developed by Xurban Collective Knit + + is a new online work commissioned by →
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17:01:03 Weekender: Arthur Baker, Dreazz, Dj Die, Donald D, Sasha.
Friday, January 17: Arthur Baker memorable electronic dance producer (Planet Rock) arrives in Italy for →
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17:01:03 New World (B) Order, the new boundaries.
It takes place over the weekend at Vienna's Tanzquartier New World (B) Order , an event organized →
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21.01.03 L’oading, genetically modified videogames.
On January 17th, at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Montevergini in Syracuse, opens the exhibition ‘L’OADING, genetically modified videogames’, which gathers ten →
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01.17.03 Geography and the Politics of Mobility.
Inaugurated on January 17 at the Generali Foundation in Vienna ' Geography and the Politics of Mobility ', →
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17:01:03 Player 5.0 Ambient, sound environments to watch.
Ambient Player 5.0 is a work of Marc Lafia and Darin Fong in overlapping loops which are →
