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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28.08.02 Identity Card gene introduced into China.
The first 'genotype ID card' was released in Zhongnan Hospital Gene Diagnostic Center of Wuhan University , and →
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28.08.02 Computerfinearts, new works of web art.
Continue the acquisition of new works of art website from the organization New York Computerfinearts . Now in →
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28.08.02 5k, art in a few lines of code.
Be creative today seems to imply necessarily require the use of expensive technological →
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23:08:02 The Pleasure of Language.
The transformation of the written language, or better composed via a keyboard, has been extremely rapid in recent years, in →
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23:08:02 Progressive Load, the visual progression.
The strength of some metaphors can be significant if combined with popular practices and familiar sequences and images. This →
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23.08.02 Information Guerrilla suffer defamation summer.
After publishing an article that has defamed sites independent information Guerrilla Information and Indymedia (defined as sites "of subversion →
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23.08.02 The Interaction of Coloreds, the skin color of the beholder.
Recently included nell'Artport the Whitney museum ' The Interaction of Coloreds 'is a work →
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08/23/02 Security experts demonstrate the vulnerability of IT U.S. military.
Some experts ForensicTec Solutions , a young computer security consulting firm, has had access to →
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23.08.02 Delay Lama, who sings in a monaco artificial synthesis to save Tibet.
Built by the Dutch collective AudioNerdz, Delay Lama is a VST instrument →
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22:08:02 Web Racket, web art of storytelling.
Inaugurated at the DeCordova Museum in Somerville (Massachusetts-USA), Web Racket is an exhibition of five projects of web →
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22:08:02 Venus Hill, flash movie of the post-mtv.
With years of music videos and commercials in the eye, the current generation of digital artists is →
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22:08:02 Timescape, the flow of images in the network.
Timescape is another work of net art of Reinald Drouhin focused on the visual flow of →
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22:08:02 RoadSafety, black box to control young drivers.
Larry Selditz, a former fighter in Vietnam, is the founder of RoadSafety a company that sells black →
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22/08/02 Demo of the book 'Virtual Sound' online.
There is an online demo of the book ' Virtual Sound, synthesis and sound processing – Csound →
