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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30.10.02 Laser pointer to temporarily blind the surveillance cameras.
Through a laser pointer from a euro you can mimentizzarsi at least temporarily from the intrusiveness →
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30.10.02 EndNode, net art paper.
The interaction between the network and the real world (ie communication between the incorporeal and physical) becomes more and more →
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29.10.02 Viper 2002 movie online or not.
It was concluded on 27 October, the Viper festival in Zurich, which this year has articulated its cultural →
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29.10.02 Sounds from deep space.
Don Gurnett is a physicist at the University of Iowa who is helping the Kronos Quartet to build a comprehensive →
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29.10.02 ISEA 2002 and Orai of digital.
The ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) was chosen as the location for its 2002 edition , opened →
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29.10.02 Pollution from mobile phones.
Environmentalists launch a new alarm continues to increase the number of subscribers to mobile phones and proportionally there is an →
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25.10.02 Toydeath Interactive, sounds obsessive in addition uncontrollable.
Although already dissolved the band of Australian Toydeath has left a significant tail of the web of →
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25.10.02 The Sims Online: The city of cheeseburgers and pentium.
The video game "The Sims", a famous strategy that has made the history of video →
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25.10.02 BLI, experimental hypertext Italian.
BLI is a collection in progress investigating the possibilities of hypertext rhetoric of the dynamic mechanisms of the web and →
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24.10.02 A hacklab in Chiapas.
After the participatory experience of last year, returns to the Forte Prenestino of Rome's appointment Thursday evening (21.00) by AvANa.net →
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24.10.02 Italian Live Media Contest.
It starts on October 24 in Milan at the Spazio Teatro IED Moda Lab-the first Italian Live Media Contest edited →
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24.10.02 Flash MX Turntable, playful simulations vinyl.
Even as this divertissement Flash MX Turntable hide interesting details in the simulation of progressive analog media. In →
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24.10.02 Digital is not Analog, 2002, web and media art festival in Campobasso.
Si'inaugura 24 ottobe at the former Church of St. Bartholomew in Campobasso →
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23/10/02 The Well, animations sensitive to sound.
The Well is a place deep and dark, a kind of well where you are on the water →
