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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05:11:02 PDPal, public art PDA.
Although still in the 'alpha' development PDPal is an interesting public art software for PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Powered by →
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05/11/02 The founder of Lotus opens the Open Source Applications Foundation.
Mitch Kapor, one of the pioneers of the software industry (founder of Lotus Development →
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05:11:02 Dubselector, flash dub sequencing.
Last in order of time, but the first for fun and simple interface, Dubselector is an interactive sequencer with 8 →
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01:11:02 Weekender: DJ Krush, Salvador Group, Mike Dred, Tarwater, Jolly Music, Pasta Boys.
Friday, November 1: to Barbar (Turin) Jolly Music, live in the mix →
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01:11:02 TV or Not TV, 8th celebration of experimental media arts in Los Angeles.
Begins November 1 in Los Angeles TV or Not TV, 8th →
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01:11:02 Remind me, video clips isometric.
Electronic and cool, innovators Norwegian Royksopp have redefined the coordinates and times of many musical genres are currently in →
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01:11:02 Oekonux 2nd Conference: From Free Software to Free Society '.
Begins Nov. 1 at the Technische Universität Berlin the second Oekonux Conference this year →
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01:11:02 Observatori'02: open space for ftp art.
It opens on November 1, in Valencia (Spain), the third edition of Observatori 'festival of art investigation', which →
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31.10.02 Rest Area, music videos abstract.
Rest Area by Nancy Tobin is a music video in flash with minimal technical contrasts the strong stimulation of →
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31.10.02 NYU Media Research Lab, digital experiments.
That eclectic professor of the Department of Computer Science (Media Research Lab in New York), Ken Perlin , →
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31.10.02 Activists against the cameras of the Police in Portland.
The activists and defenders of civil liberties in Portland (Oregon, USA) and Lewiston (Maine) protestantdo →
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31.10.02 ArtFutura, the web as canvas.
Si'inaugura October 31 at the CCCB of Barcelona the thirteenth edition of ArtFutura , a four-day festival on the →
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30.10.02 Part Two, VJ television channel blocker.
On 30 October, starting at 20.00 (New York time) will be held PART TWO (a 24-hour event on →
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30.10.02 Looplabs, web remix.
Winner in the category of one of the last music festival Flashforward, Looplabs is an outstanding mixer in flash, which implements →
