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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23:10:02 Narration Ltd, pens hire for a global power.
In the book Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury's books were burned by power. Today the power prefer to →
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23:10:02 MetaSynth, draw with the sound.
MetaSynth is a software for music composition that differs from all the other tools of the genre because of →
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23:10:02 Electrohype 2002 in software art festival in Malmo.
It was inaugurated on October 23 in Malmo (Sweden) Electrohype 2002 , the first two years →
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22:10:02 Symbiosis, gestures and correspondences in a web page.
Symbiosis is according to its author a dynamic performance and aesthetics that involves a multi-user gestures →
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22:10:02 Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP).
Opened in Beijing (China), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) , media art festivals in East Asia, has as its →
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22:10:02 Database logo: the free movement of corporate brands.
The site Logotype free there are more than 60,000 logos in vector format, which can be →
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22:10:02 3D music, music for digital spaces.
3D music is the interesting work of the team of artists coordinated by →
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18:10:02 Valtellinux Meeting, promote free software in Valtellina.
On 19 October 2002, Caiolo, in the province of Sondrio, Valtellinux promotes a day dedicated to promoting →
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18:10:02 Thought Generator v.2.3, thoughts generated.
Thought Generator v.2.3 H-Ray Heine, a German artist / American part of the Fluxus movement, is a work in →
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18:10:02 Otolab, vjing conscious.
The Otolab are a Milanese collective which, based on the free circulation of knowledge profitably experiment with the language audio / →
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18:10:02 Eidetic memory, photographic narrative fragmentary.
After Frutiger Toy, one of the winners of the contest 5k (see 5k, art in a few lines of →
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17:10:02 Wofbot, minimal audible / visual alarms.
Wofbot is a new website of the Portuguese Miguel Carvalhais in collaboration with the Austrian Lia, who, faithful →
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17:10:02 Sonic Process, a new geography of sounds.
Sonic Process, a new geography of sounds is a traveling exhibition that will be launched on October →
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10/17/02 GNU Radio software to turn your PC into a universal radio.
GNU Radio is a free software that is used with minimal hardware is →
