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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19:08:02 Remove encryption with unusual techniques.
In 1998 Paul Kocher criptografo developed a method to deduce the secret key hidden in a smart card with →
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09:08:02 Prototype # 22, the soul mechanics.
Among the many small experiments sown on the web, that of the so-called OPT Technology inc. called Prototype →
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09:08:02 The EFF has security holes Xbox.
The EFF will officially present the controversial document of the MIT student Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang, illustrating the security →
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09/08/02 Boycott the RIAA.
Halfway between parody and activism, the site of Boycott RIAA is an open forum which means coalition forces against the infamous →
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09:08:02 Adbusters opens its online television channel.
The collective of Canadian sappers media of Adbusters has launched its online television channel: Adbusters TV open to →
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08.08.02 International Spontaneous Jam Session, web-jam services.
International Spontaneous Jam Session is the last experiment the Icelandic artist Pall Thayer on the generation of abstract →
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08/08/02 Biometric Technologies unreliable.
According to Jim Wayman Director biometric testing center of San Jose State University, facial recognition, as well as that of the →
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08:08:02 Matrix.2, art telephone at Castello di Rivoli.
Matrix.2 is the work of Francis Alÿs it took for the subject of his inquiry into the →
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08:08:02 AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism v.2, video media activists.
The update of the AHA survey , this time made by video projections on media activism, will be →
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07:08:02 Nec Powermate, your computer environmentally friendly.
The Nec, after the introduction in Japan of the model Mate, is launching in the U.S. market the →
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07:08:02 Longplayer, a symphony for a thousand years.
In the assumptions of generative music is to generate music that does not repeat until after dozens →
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07:08:02 GetLyrical, database of song lyrics.
They are almost two million texts of the songs in GetLyrical , the site that has built one of →
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07:08:02 File 2002 electronic language international festival.
It opens on August 8 in Sao Paulo (Brazil), the 2002 edition of File electronic language international festival →
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07:08:02 We Love New York, the New York digital artists and activists.
Begins on August 8 all'Eyebeam New York We Love New York, Mapping Manhattan →
