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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3.1.03 Visual Thesaurus, a software architecture that explores language hypertext.
From that technological innovation has made it possible for large-scale deployment of media there has →
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03/01/03 DJ Spooky remixes 'Birth of a Nation', a masterpiece of silent cinema.
During the launch of the platform Creative Commons, Paul Miller aka DJ →
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07.01.03 Decasia, a film made of recycled celluloid.
Decasia, by Bill Morrison, is a film made entirely of damaged film material, recovered from several United States archives. →
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31.12.02 New Year's Eve: Rebbibia Togni Circus, Eurofortezza, Alex Silverfish, Cause'n'fx, NYE Party streaming links.
Location unusual for concerts and djing in the New Year's →
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31.12.02 Interference Brain.
The American Neurological Association revealed that Christian Gerloff, University of Tuebingen (Germany) is experimenting with a system that reduces the 'tinnitus', ie →
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31.12.02 AHA, new mailing list Artivism, Hacking, Activism.
Right at the end of 2002 comes the mailing list of the AHA (Artivism, Hacking, Activism) already →
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30.12.02 PanoramicPortraits, constructed identities from the web.
PanoramicPortraits is the work of Manon de Boer commissioned to explore the public domain of the internet. From →
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30.12.02 Dot-store, fetishes of the new economy.
Dot-store is the latest creation of web art by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, two British artists ready →
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30.12.02 Pirat_@zione_project: anti-copyright Santa.
On December 24th, a daring as well as ironic action of some militants of the ‘csaPaci’Paciana – Pirat_@zione_project’ has disturbed the stale atmosphere →
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30.12.02 Billboards that detect radio stations listened to in the car.
The Alaris Media Network has installed near Sacramento (USA) ten billboards with unique characteristics. →
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24.12.02 World Sousveillance Day
It is set for noon on 24 December (Toronto time) on the first ' World Sousveillance Day 'also said' World Subjectrights →
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30.12.02 Verio threatens to close The Thing.
According to a notice released by RTMark, the provider Verio, yielding to pressures made by Dow Chemical Corporation, caused by →
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24.12.02 SeeYou.SeeMeNot, the image of the obsession.
SeeYou.SeeMeNot is the ultimate realization of the web of intimate | virtual base, and confronts with the classic →
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24.12.02 The mp3s hurt the ears'.
According to Christian Oliver the Computer Science department of Hamburg UAS has formulated least curious assumptions about the consequences →
