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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08:10:02 Friendship Gallery, web art for Diesel.
Always looking for new strategies for the dissemination of own brand, Diesel now becomes the client and sponsor →
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08:10:02 Faith, animate the meaning of a text
Faith is the last work of literary art web of Robert Kendall, a professor of electronic literature →
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08:10:02 Marantz CDR300, record live cd.
The live recording with digital quality has been until now the prerogative of the Minidisc and their micro recording →
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07:10:02 Scratch, documentary film on turntablism.
Scratch is a feature film that documents the rise and proliferation of the movement of turntablism from the South →
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07:10:02 Modern Living, ninety-nine short flash of Han Hoogerbrugge.
It is one of the greatest talents in absolute animations in flash, and this must be →
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07:10:02 The attack on the copyright of Groucho Marx.
The attacks of the defenders of copyright are not exclusive affair of our time. In a →
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07:10:02 Art for Networks, network not only computer.
Art for Networks is a traveling exhibition of net.art Englishman who crosses his interpretations of the telematic →
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05:10:02 Shrinking World, Expanding Net, annual conference of the CPSR.
Shrinking World, Expanding Net , is the title of the annual conference organized by CPSR →
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05/10/02 MTV: A film with the founder of Napster.
MTV signed a deal with Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster , for the rights of a →
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05:10:02 MomEnt.16: Orgasmus im Berlin.
MomEnt.16: Orgasmus im Berlin is a 'net_video' by Igor Stromajer, brilliant performer Slovenian years to the study of the representation →
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05/10/02 Daily Photo Project, web (or end) himself.
The temptations of an artistic medium that allows immediate distribution of all content that you are able →
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04:10:02 Madhack2002 third hackmeeting Spanish.
Begins Oct. 4 to occupied social center of Madrid Labo03 Madhack2002 , the third hackmeeting Spanish, with the usual busy →
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10/04/02 Geoff Cox, the Dialectics of generative art in Transmediale.
Continue the periodic workshops, held at Podewil, the festival Transmediale Berlin, October 4 and will →
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04:10:02 Dictionaraoke, hilarious karaoke synthetic plagiarists.
Another stroke of genius plagiarism is unassailable content nell'irresistibile site Dictionaraoke , a collection of over one hundred songs, →
