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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11:09:02 The network emergency broadcasting USA is not safe
The ' Emergency Alert System is a network of emergency that allows the U.S. president to →
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11:09:02 September 11 terror remember.
From the dark precognition of 1968, in an advertisement for the New York Times which was displaying →
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10:09:02 Go around the great firewall of China.
After the announcement of the block of the most popular search engine (Google) on the part of →
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10:09:02 Audio Hyperspace, sound art in network
It's online the latest issue of Audio Hyperspace , un'informatissima electronic magazine dedicated to sound in the telematics →
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09.10.02 Unplugged: Ars Electronica 2002
It was inaugurated on September 7th 2002 edition of Ars Electronica, entitled ' Unplugged, as the art scene of Global →
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05:09:02 Transphormetic, the plot numbers.
Transphormetic is an investigation on the generation of forms in Flash5. On site you can enjoy the different modules programmed →
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05/09/02 Launch of the Open Source Streaming Alliance (OSSA).
Launched in these days the ' Open Source Streaming Alliance (OSSA) , a web platform that →
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05:09:02 The sensors neuronal NASA.
Some officers of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said that the agency is developing a monitoring device in brain →
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9.5.02 Visual Music Search Engine.
Visual Music Search Engine is a Shockwave demo in another project group LeCielEstBleu trying to focus on an unusual aspect →
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05:09:02 Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia.
After a few seminal books that have laid a solid foundation of criticism of the network and →
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4:09:02 Violence Online Festival, online works on the concept of violence.
Violence is a tool, a process vital and necessary or only the result of →
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04/09/02 Revolution OS, the film on Linux.
The first operating system can seriously disrupt the twenty-year monopoly Microsoft has obtained another important recognition. Better than →
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04:09:02 Escher in quicktime.
The famous optical illusion of MCEscher, sold hundreds of gadgets, hides the perfect property recursive illustrated in classic black ink, or →
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04:09:02 generators text, DadaDodo and Blogs Drone.
The amount of textual data exchanged at any time on the network continues to tickle the interest of →
