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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13:01:03 Floppyswop, exchange music and media on a floppy disk.
Floppy disks are not yet in the list of 'dead media' by Bruce Sterling and →
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13:01:03 Digitalsistersindeed.org, staff in Trieste.
It was inaugurated on January 10 at the gallery LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea of Trieste ' Digitalsistersindeed.org ', the first solo exhibition →
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01/13/03 Spam of 1978. There was also Stallman.
Perhaps the story of the first spam was sent l1 May 1978 →
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10:01:03 Weekender: Support RadiOndaRossa, Roger Sanchez, Daddy G, Ghost Cauldron.
Friday, January 10: Officine Belforte, Turin, The Black Stanzas Party, Ivan Smagghe (Paris, Output Recordings), →
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14.01.03 Twilight, a floating screen.
The works of the french group Hehe.org, founded by Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, are installations which physically interact with the user →
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10:01:03 Transmutational: Meta: Processor, correlations between 3D and music.
Transmutational: Meta: Processor is one of the premises Troy Innocent, Australian artist active for more than →
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10:01:03 SmarTruck II spy on emails from the jeep.
In the hunting blind to the invisible enemy, the U.S. Army (the U.S. military) has submitted →
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10:01:03 Italian art Web: staff of RGB and CMYK competition.
– A selection of the last three years of production Mauro Ceolin and its RGBProject →
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09:01:03 Packet, web art monthly at New Langton Arts Gallery.
The New Langton Arts, San Francisco art gallery opened for the month of January 2003 →
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09:01:03 The Sony funds research on artificial composers.
Eduardo Reck Miranda is a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, dedicated to the creation of software →
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13.01.03 Bodytag, abstract design experiments.
Bodytag.org is the site which collects the experiments of Glen Murphy, an artist and programmer from Melbourne (Australia). Murphy can extract wonderful →
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09:01:03 Activism Online: More than just a petition.
The network, since its inception, has always been associated with an imaginary intelligences intangible assets that communicate →
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08:01:03 Work around Microsoft security in the eBook.
The programmer Dan Jackson has set up a project to improve the conversion of Microsoft eBooks in →
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08:01:03 'I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives', playful sequencer themed video.
If the sequencer music-toy, more or less playful abound, with mixed results, eni demo →
