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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19:09:02 Bananaram Net.Art Italian Festival.
It was opened on September 18 at the Mole Vanvitelliana of Ancona the first Bananaram Net.Art Italian Festival , a →
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17:09:02 Atomic Music.
Scientific research has a different face since experiments and theories can be shared through a publication that is informal and fruita heard →
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17:09:02 FakeMail, email generator false in php.
If spam is one of the preeminent phenomena of the network, there are different reactions to the abuse →
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17:09:02 Cite des Ondes, electronic art festival in Montreal.
The fifth edition of Cite des Ondes festival of video and electronic art was inaugurated on →
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16:09:02 Peep: The Network Auralizer.
Among the many research opportunities to capture the sound of the Internet, the one built by Michael Gilfix and Collin →
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16:09:02 Fake users created for digital public relations.
According to an article in the Guardian of English Bivings Group , a public relations which has →
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16:09:02 4 Short interactive pieces about vegetables and sound.
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09/12/02 Agreement between Phil Zimmermann and the Foundation for Information Policy Research.
Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, after saving its technologies from oblivion, has signed →
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12:09:02 Crush Tsunamii.Net Server, suicide of a webserver.
It was concluded at 19:00 on September 12, the 'suicide' programmed webserver stationed at 195.195.81.5 . The →
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12:09:02 Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Lab
Inaugurated on September 12 the series of free workshops that will last until 22, in a preview of →
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12:09:02 Letterscapes, the design of interactive letters.
Peter Cho comes dall'Aesthetics and Computational Group at MIT Medialab and Letterscape , one of his interactive typographic →
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12:09:02 Dissonance, a festival of arts and electronic music in Rome.
Begins September 12th 2002 edition of Dissonance review of arts and electronic music which →
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11:09:02 Mu, nothing interactive sounds and visions.
Tomoko Kawai is a Japanese artist living in San Francisco who, like few others, is able to express →
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11:09:02 Large Hot Pipe Organ, organ explosive via MIDI.
The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the only body to propane gas explosions controlled via MIDI. →
