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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27.01.03-III IP, network space reinterpreted.
How to graph the intangible asset is still one of the biggest problems of the cartographers of the network. Several →
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27.01.03 BBS Documentary, documentary on the American BBS.
BBS Documentary is a film in the works of Jason Scott. The project is to reconstruct a →
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24.01.03 Weekender: Layo & Bushwacka, Etienne De Crecy, DJ Krust, Alley Cat and Phon.o Live.
– Friday, January 24: Appointment highlight of the week, Layo →
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24.01.03 Query by Humming: hum to find your favorite song.
The German Fraunhofer Institute announced in its publication online the development of a melodic recognition →
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Islands In The Net 24.01.03, Peacelink, Solos, controCIRCUITO, ALCEI: Italian hacktivism rears its head.
On January 24, the CPA South of Florence, the ' Hacklab →
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28.01.03 Grey Area, self-portrait through informations.
Grey Area is a work by Friederike Paetzold which, with a wrongfooting speed describes the author himself through a series of →
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24.01.03 Beehive 5.2, new experiments hypertext.
New number of Beehive, Hypertext / Hypermedia Literary Journal , the magazine of literary experiments aperiodic electronic hypertext. In →
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24.01.03 Runme.org, a software art database.
Runme.org is a new database of software art. The artists can submit the executable code to the moderators, who will systematically →
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23:01:03 Lexicon, graphical software-verbal.
Lexicon is one of the latest creations of the tireless Andy Deck. It is a java code that, in a black →
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23:01:03 Lessig: we learn from Japanese comics.
In an article published for the monthly statement Red Herring, Lawrence Lessig , author of the seminal book →
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23:01:03 Bzzzpeek, onomatopoeia sound from the world.
Bzzzpeek is a simple project guessed what the London-based group FL @ 33. One of the few internationally →
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22:01:03 piracy, what do you do for you …
While the ad industry periodically attempt to thwart the free dissemination of music artists sometimes leave →
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1/22/03 RFID, radio frequency identifying everything.
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, and is one of the rising standard of acting through identification microchip so →
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22:01:03 Netmage 03, an international festival of livemedia.
After the edition of two thousand , and that of last year , opens Jan. 22 in →
