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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19.12.02 Tom Thumb, generative video.
Tom Thumb is a short film, created by Alex Evans, which reproduces some generative characteristics. The meaning given by the author to →
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18:12:02 if (Monologue) {…}, web Vietnamese poetry.
In the stardom of white artists and western network stands for fresh ideas and unusual approaches to narrative →
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18:12:02 Drum Pattern Programmer.
To familiarize yourself with the classic drum patterns drum machines, Gregory Shakar has implemented on this Web ' Pattern Drum Programmer →
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18:12:02 Creative Commons licenses to distribute for free and protect your work.
I'm finally ready the ad hoc licenses of Creative Commons ( see ) →
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18.12.02 Grids, perspectives of a matrix.
A grid, even if basic to the essential, represents, in its interlacement of knots and junctions, the most classic metaphor of →
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17:12:02 Flowers, photographic art with the scanner.
There is an aesthetic associated with each digital tool, software or hardware that is? Often the answer is →
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17:12:02 Digital Partnership, aristocratic charity of computers in schools in South Africa.
With the expectation of more than 600 million computers, fully functional, abandoned in →
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17:12:02 Bandlink, the cd that tell about your business.
Access to the user's computer, and then to a variable part of his private life, remains →
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14:12:02 Weekender: Aphex Twin, Rephlex, Mirko Loko & N.Twan, Sage, Optical.
Aphex Twin's Rephlex in the tour (part Maddog "Cougar" Wallace, Astrobotnia, Bogdan Raczynski, Cylob, →
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14:12:02 Valence, information and their interactions.
Displayed last DataTerra , show on cultural mediation of data, Valence is a work of Benjamin Fry, in which →
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14:12:02 Servovalve.org, songs sonographic findings.
Servovalve.org is a sequence 'chrono-illogical' as defined by the author of songs 'sonographic'. In fact they are developed together with →
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17.12.02 Television sets liberated: televiewers on strike + Eterea, a meeting of street TVs.
The self-proclaimed “televiewers union” has organized on Friday, December 13th 2002, a National →
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14:12:02 Axis, virtual economic alliances between states.
Axis of Golan Levin takes the concept of historical and political 'axis', ie strategic alliance for common economic →
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13:12:02 V_, the festival vj Bulk of Milan.
V_ is a show promoted by Box and Otolab, collective audiovisual research in Milan, hosted by CSA →
