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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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 →
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04:09:02 Antimal, sounds to ward off insects and mice from your PC.
Anti-Mal 2.0 is a freeware for Windows that makes the signal to the →
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02:09:02 TV_Infinity, the movement as infinite loop.
TV_Infinity interesting work is the kinematic Alexandra Reill produced by the Viennese Kanonmedia.com, in whose brilliant photographs of →
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02:09:02 Bassist added digitally, without being asked.
Listen to a song and according to rethink its parameters is a practice common to all music lovers, →
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2:09:02 Yolanda's cyber meditation: meditation in front of the screen.
Among the various activities carried out under the name Purple Rabbit (video for the band →
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02.09.02 Understand and evaluate the EUCD.
Following a fundamental seminar held during the last hackmeeting, the Association Free Software unveiled a valuable analytical work sull'EUCD →
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02:09:02 The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
The dynamic creation of alphabets is from about a decade one of the most part unexplored possibilities of semiotic font →
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30.08.02 Perhect Word, word processing nightmare.
Word Perhect is the work in Shockwave Tomoko Takahashi proposes that the interface of a word processing program, bitchy →
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30.08.02 Simian 6, revolution in flash.
The aesthetic rapid and sharp colors of flash can be folded to a less conventional narrative of the locked →
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30.08.02 Melodie Neural.
Researchers at the sleep clinic of the ' University of Toronto have found that the human brain creates its own internal music →
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29.08.02 Hacking the website of the RIAA.
Intrusion ironic than ever hit the site of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), an association created →
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29.08.02 Furtherfield platform to experiment with.
Furtherfield is an online platform that hosts and promotes electronic artwork can be accessed via the web, including video, →
