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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27.11.02 American Internet, Coca Cola in Ascii.
The Coca Cola as a symbol of invasiveness U.S. or global social level? The net artist Eryk Salvaggio →
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26.11.02 Emergent Art, evolution applied to the sequence of colors.
'Emergent Art' is the name that Paul St George has given to a form of →
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26.11.02 cleanrooms, biotech art.
Is ongoing until November 30, at Gallery Oldham Manchester (UK) cleanrooms , an exhibition that challenges our feeling about biotechnology, science →
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26.11.02 Bastard Pop, remix plagiarist.
Although now the phenomenon already has a couple of years, the ' bastard pop 'or' pop plagiarist ', whatever you →
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23:11:02 Weekender: Zed Bias, Metaxu and SHADO
Saturday, November 23, 2002, Forward Night at Maffia of Reggio Emilia, one of the leaders of the movement →
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23:11:02 European Netstrike against the arrests.
Organized by the Germans 'E-Cowboys for Peace', the European netstrike against the repression of the leaders of the anti-globalization →
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23:11:02 Linux Day in more than sixty cities.
More than sixty Italian Linux User Group will be active during the weekend in the organization of →
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23:11:02 In Between, web art of the border between the elements.
In Between is a sequence of combinations, designed to highlight the boundaries between objects →
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23:11:02 Fibreculture 2002: Networks of Excellence.
It takes 22 to 24 November the second Fibreculture conference 2002 called 'Networks of Excellence 'at the Museum of →
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23:11:02 Caution, the assault to the space audible user.
ƒmilie Pitoiset is the author of edgy work of sound art Caution , a simple but →
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23/11/02 Stop the war with the PlayStation + Tiny Signs of Hope.
The PlayStation inciting violence? Not really. Here it is used to fight the →
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22:11:02 Pixxelpoint, computer art Slovenian.
It begins on November 22 of the 2002 edition of Pixxelpoint , computer art festival that takes place in Nova →
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22:11:02 Photomontage.com, loops and pictures Shirin Kouladjie.
The Iranian Shirin Kouladjie back to crowd your site Photomontage . com with personal creations, daughters of that →
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22:11:02 IIlegal Art, plagiarist festival in New York.
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age is an exhibition Starting from the same principle →
