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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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 →
32.000 points of light is an immersive installation which explores fanciful visual ambients whose only point of reference is made of several points of light. In fact, the guides of the sense of →
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1/16/03 Graffiti the web defacement symbolic.
The site Graffiti the web allows you to create your own defacement, "occupying" a symbolic gesture with your targeted →
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01/16/03 Global Tuner System, net.radio handset.
It was presented at the last Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on GlobalTuner InTune200 , a portable radio →
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16:01:03 The DVD reflex Cagol.
It was inaugurated on January 15 at the space Antonioli in Milan, 'DVDs: Stars & Stripes_the Fate of Enrgy III_Flux →
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15:01:03 The volume of spam will soon overtake that of the emails exchanged normally.
A striking study of Brightmail , a company e-mail filtering with →
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17.01.03 Little Sound Dj, a sequencer for the Gameboy.
Little Sound Dj is a software for the Gameboy/Gameboy Color platform which allows to creatively exploit its sound →
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15/01/03 Future Film Festival 2003.
It opens on January 15 in the fifth edition of the Bologna Future Film Festival , an exhibition dedicated to →
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1/15/03 Drawing Blog, draw into a web space.
Launched by the Milan Helghi, Drawing Blog is a blog where interventions are image comments that you →
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14:01:03 Observer, the webcam that has no need for a PC.
The ' Observer 'Veo is the first video camera that can transmit its images →
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1/14/03 Fly Guy, surreal animation in black and white.
Wacky characters, from a devil boxer an alien rocker, populate the sky ' Fly Guy ', →
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14:01:03 BiometricSoundEngine, the sound of measurement of the eye.
The applications of biometrics are often associated with forms of surveillance and control how the analysis →
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16.01.03 32.000 points of light, worlds descripted using light and sound.
32.000 points of light is an immersive installation which →
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15.01.03 Teleferique, public net art experiments.
Teleferique is a ‘downloading art server’ independent and collective, physically located in CrŽteil (France), within the hinterland of Paris. It’s a →
