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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04:10:02 Dark Markets, Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis.
It takes place on 3 and 4 October Architekturzentrum Vienna (Austria), ' Dark →
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03:10:02 Madrettor, new media festival in Rotterdam.
It was opened in Rotterdam on October 1, Madrettor, festival of [Media] Art, NET_Culture & technology , an →
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03/10/02 Jukebox Collective, participated in the jukebox.
Jukebox Collective is an experiment of collective participation in a project inaugurated in 'far' 1996 by Frenchman Jerome →
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03:10:02 censorware funded by the Japanese government.
After the last spread in Japan censorware programs (ie that block content deemed unsuitable for children through some →
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01:10:02 Sob Monitoring, Oeiras Image Festival.
L ' Image Festival Oeiras Barcarena (Portugal) dedicated in 2002, its exhibition of digital video to the theme 'Sob →
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01:10:02 Electraum.com: mp3 compilation in progress.
Among the degrees of freedom are returned by the dematerialization of the medium imposed by the music mp3 is →
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01.10.02 Digital Media Festival 2002 in Manila.
Inaugurated on October 1, Manila (Philippines), the Digital Media Festival 2002 , an event organized by Fatima Lasay →
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26.09.02 Wayform.net, furniture collaborative sound.
Wayform.net is a collaborative project of sounds 'in progress' that revolves around three concepts: community, sound and space. The scripts →
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26.09.02 Trashlog, the charm of garbage on the web.
In an apparent complacency, Nico Van Hoorn, is the artist who created the Trashlog , a →
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26.09.02 media_city seoul, electronic art utopia.
It was inaugurated on September 26 in Seoul (Korea) media_city seoul , biennial of media art. Determined to explore →
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26.09.02 CodeDoc, software art exhibition.
CodeDoc is an ambitious exhibition project of software art, which far dall'incasellare spectacular special effects of many colorful programs, reverses →
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26.09.02 Activists send Californians recycled PC in Ecuador.
Some members of the ' Independent Media Center in Oakland (California) are recovering from computers running from →
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25.09.02 Villette Numérique, biennial of new media art in Paris.
There were certainly spared the organizers of Villette Numérique , the first biennial of new →
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25.09.02 Typophile, font collective.
Inspired by the book 'Out of Control' by Kevin Kelly, Typophile, the smaller picture is a work of web art that →
