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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21:12:02 VideA_02, no_profit vj culture in Barcelona.
Barcelona confirms "capital" of creation and electronic media in the wake of the effervescent audiovisual scene that characterizes →
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A digital treasure 21:12:02 saved by a collector of vintage tech.
Sellam Ismail is a fan of vintage technology, and a consultant specializing in obsolete →
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12/21/02 Reed Kram, aesthetic processing.
The karma of John Maeda can permeate even his students the fundamental 'Aesthetics and Computational Group at MIT', as demonstrated →
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21:12:02 Mapped areas of the brain that process the melodies.
Professor Petr Janata of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College is conducting a →
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20:12:02 Weekender: Fischerspooner, Thomas Bar, Focalizer, Alex blacks, Paul Arnold.
Over the weekend looms over all, the goa.ultrabeat in Rome, Horus Club, live Fischerspooner, followed →
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20/12/02 Interactive tests of binaural sounds.
The University of York has made an important and fun test on the perception of binaural sounds. L ' →
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20:12:02 My Voice, a foreign voice to that of the author.
My Voice (read by microphone) is an interactive work of Gregory Chatonsky, author of →
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21.12.02 EG Serene, a software for reformalizing the time structure of videos.
‘EG Serene‘ is the last software by Barbara Lattanzi, prolific author of programs which conceptually →
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20:12:02 The anonymizer U.S. Senate.
It not be said that the Senate of the United States has never done anything to protect your privacy on →
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19:12:02 Refresh: Reload, shows how savescreen.
Refresh: Reloads is a screensaver that applies the concept of 'gallery works' to the area of the machine is →
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20.12.02 Greylines 00-06 and Hyperchoreography, new Scottish software art.
The always active New Media Scotland presented two new software art projects. Greylines 00-06 is developed by Slateford →
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19:12:02 Bruce Haack: The King of Techno.
Bruce Haack is one of the unsung pioneers of that since the fifties has built his craft tools, →
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19:12:02 Arrested another net Chinese activist.
The organization Human Rights in China (HRIC) reports that the Chinese publisher Yibin Li was arrested for anti-government activities →
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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 →
