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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03:12:02 Multimedia M-6, the best videos of Transmediale in Turin.
' M-Multimedia 'is the name of a series of events curated by Lorenzo Taiuti in →
. Hacktivism 
03:12:02 Laos: Internet pedals.
Laos is one of the poorest countries in Asia, and despite his developmental delays, is beginning to spread to the network →
. Hacktivism 
02:12:02 Vagamundo: a street-game digital on illegal immigration.
Born in the summer of 2002, with full U.S. anti-terrorism campaign, the game Vagamundo – a Migrant's →
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02:12:02 Ogg Vorbis for Palm.
The Aerodrome Software has released a beta of its first audio player for Palm that supports the Ogg Vorbis compression →
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02:12:02 MapMaker, the territory deconstructed.
MapMaker is defined by its authors Joshua Davis and Jemma Gura "a machine generative, random and passive feeding the constant →
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02.12.02 Art in sexual contest, art hidden in porn.
Dorinel Marc is an effervescent Eastern European artist living in Sweden. Among his irreverent operations has →
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29.11.02 Weekender: Xploding Plastix, The Acid Mothers Temple, Tim Baker, Highfish, SUVs.
At Link, Bologna, Thursday, November 28, live from Xploding Plastix, the Norwegian group, →
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29.11.02 Oblique Strategies online.
Created in 1975 by electronic musician and producer Brian Eno and by British artist Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies are presented in →
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29.11.02 Buy Nothing Day, strike consumption for one day.
It is held on 29 November / Buy Nothing Day , a day of action organized →
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29.11.02 Boxplorer, the layout of sites such as web art.
Boxplorer is the latest provocative work of Andy Deck, using an application with a web →
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29.11.02 Artmedia 8 symposium on electronic art.
Inaugurated on November 29 at the Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in →
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28.11.02 Waste of Time, html file as a pixel.
Waste Of Time is an application which had as input a sentence of up to twelve →
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28.11.02 Ultrasound, music festivals visual / electronics and various experimentations.
Ultrasound is a three day festival that takes place at The Media Centre in Huddersfield →
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28.11.02 Stop Motion Studies, jerky animation in the web.
The techniques of stop-motion have been used historically for work of animation, especially in the seventies →
