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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08:11:02 The missing chapter from 'The Art of Deception' by Kevin Mitnick.
The first chapter of the book by Kevin Mitnick 'The art of deception' →
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08:11:02 Futuresonic, festival of contemporary electronic music and art.
It opened on 6 November in Manchester (England), as every year,'ll Futuresonic festival 'sonic pleasure and →
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08:11:02 The Frequency Clock: Free Media System 1.0.
It was released on the public release 1.0 (beta) The Frequency Clock: Free Media System m software →
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08:11:02 CYNETart_02, art in real time.
It was inaugurated on September 7 in Dresden (Germany), the sixth edition of CYNETart international festival of computer-based art, →
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07:11:02 Digital Vinyl CD-R Verbatim nostalgic.
The Digital Vinyl , CD recordable by the shape of 45s, certainly will not put an end to the →
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07:11:02 Industrious Clock, a web-clock impregnable.
Industrious Clock is a simple web art work of Yugo Nakamura who plays one of our smaller scrambled in →
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11.07.02 Social Forum, social communication seminar + Eur @ ction Hub Project.
At the European Social Forum in Florence, we will also discuss communication at →
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07:11:02 Elektra Festival, sound and visual arts.
It opened on November 7 Usine Montreal (Canada), the fourth edition of ' Elektra Festival , an event →
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07:11:02 Backup festival, new media in film.
Inaugurated on November 7 E-Werk Weimar (Germany) Backup festival , an event specifically dedicated to video productions and →
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06:11:02 Popular, abstract videos online for electronic music.
Popular is a collection of abstract video loop developed specifically to be accompanied by electronic music. In →
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06:11:02 Identity Card for Internet in China.
A whole Chinese province, that of Jiangxi, has forced all users of the internet cafe (3,200 in all) →
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06:11:02 Infomera, and challenges between net artists.
Infomera is the version for net artists 'Celebrity Deathmatch' mtv. In seven weeks every couple of oxidants has →
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06:11:02 GogolChat, irrational talk.
GogolChat is a fake chat through A dedicated instruction set to DHTML dissects the dialogues and integrates them through a search →
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05:11:02 Zombie and Mummy, comics weekly social for Palm.
Olia and Dragan Espenschied Lialina (one of the first net.artiste) launched ' Zombie and Mummy ', →
