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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06/08/02 Petition anti-tribute SIAE.
The website of the magazine High Fidelity Digital organize a petition to say no to mega tribute to SIAE on digital →
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06:08:02 Firmament.to, every text is an index.
Firmament.to is the work of Francis Hwang, new technical director of Rhizome, which uses a Perl script and →
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06:08:02 Sega Dreamcast for cyber attacks.
During the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas was presented a conversion of the old Sega Dreamcast in an →
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06:08:02 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
It has recently opened the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth , Perth (Australia), an event whose main theme this →
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01/08/02 Cook the eggs on the computer.
The temperatures that an Athlon XP 1500 + can achieve are very high, but how much? Rather than →
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01:08:02 The Pixel Lab, abstract digital architectures.
The Pixel Lab is the spectacular site that contains perceptual experiments Dutchman Elout de Kok, an electronic artist →
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01:08:02 9 Beet Stretch, Beethoven's Ninth dilated digitally.
9 Beet Stretch consists of a digital processing of the famous Ninth →
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30.07.02 RealNetworks makes a deal to Ogg Vorbis.
The greatest threat to the Fraunhofer Institute and its patent on the standard mp3 Agreement comes close →
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30.07.02 Infrasound, flash movie.
If a new approach to animation and visual sequence was given by the technologies concentrated in the standard 'flash' and effective →
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30.07.02 Security expert accused after a demonstration.
Stefan Puffer, an expert in computer security in Houston (USA) has been convicted of fraud for having demonstrated →
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29.07.02 Princeton Yale accused of infiltrating in his computer.
Yale University has filed a complaint with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), together with the →
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29.07.02 Viragelic, generative songs in progress.
Viragelic 2.0 is a successful experiment in Shockwave sound generation of a track, well illustrated through an adequate visualization. →
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29.07.02 The Ascii Nude, the naked minimal Eryk Salvaggio.
Eryk Salvaggio, author of theories on net art , auction of gnomes and reduction to the →
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26/07/02 Coil + Mouse on Mars + Plaid + Scanner in Fano.
As part of the festival 'The Violin and the Flint' directed by Franco →
