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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05.02.03 Screen, telepresence of small machines.
The possibilities offered by telepresence on the web, that is, by the ability to manipulate objects from any distance through a →
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30.01.03 Conference John Maeda in Ivrea.
Thursday, January 30 at 18:00 John Maeda will hold a conference at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (turin) entitled →
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30.01.03 Cymbalism, web mixing tailored.
Mixing software for custom web, this is the business of Cymbalism , a British software house consists of three fans →
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30.01.03 acrononimi The number of Chinese in chat.
In a recent article in the online magazine New Zealand NZoom are briefly treated the acronyms used →
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30.01.03 Trapped, serial killer with an interface.
Trapped is a work by Sachiko Hayashi, who built a disquieting and quick narration on the serial killers phenomenon. Trying →
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29.01.03 An article made by assembling pieces of spam.
The idea of Mark Morford, editor of the San Francisco Gate is not new, or use →
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29.01.03 A SoaPOPera For Imacs, computers that talk and listen.
A SoaPOPera For Imacs is the installation of the duo formed by GH Hovagimyan and →
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29.01.03 Neuros, mp3 player for DJs.
Neuros is an MP3 player from Digital Innovations that like most of the other products of this type allows →
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29.01.03 Spol/U S, Internet at the bus stop.
Spol/U S is an Internet video application broadcasted from a public place. It’s not merely a trivial spy-webcam, it’s →
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28.01.03 Open Spectrum, U.S. Wireless space in the public domain.
Maybe it's a utopian proposal for the current market of the ether, but the strength →
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28.01.03 iPod, bags, jackets, fm transmitters and censorship of independent software.
The iPod, Apple's mp3 player ultra-modern design is the center of attention for a →
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28.01.03 Criptographever, discover alleged hidden messages.
Criptographever is a server side application that locates alleged messages 'hidden' within any text. The work starts from the →
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27.01.03 Overpeer, the company that pollutes the peer-to-peer networks.
It is rumored for a long time the pollution of peer-to-peer by the majors with unnecessary →
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27.01.03 Mondrian Machine, divide the geometric spaces.
Mondrian Machine is a PLAIN but effective simulation method of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter of the early →
