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.
. EMusic 
17:07:02 The Universal assumes a responsible piracy.
The Universal Music Group , one of the major music market, has created a new position in his →
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17:07:02 Ryota Kuwakubo, digital-craftsman minimal.
Ryota Kuwakubo calls itself a 'device artist', but in reality is a skilled artist who builds software and electronic gadgets →
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17:07:02 Videoarte non-Mexican online.
The Mexican Fernando Llanos, having hosted artists countrymen on its website, has invited several international video artists to express themselves on →
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17:07:02 Computer art painting for non-digital.
Isca Greenfield-Sanders is a young New York artist who, as one of the most promising artists from the digital →
. Hacktivism 
17:07:02 cryptographic methods inspired by cartoons.
Jason R. Kauffman is a student of mechanical engineering at the University of Dayton, which is developing a new →
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07/16/02 Net Italian art, a compendium of JavaMuseum.
The JavaMuseum, in his latest collection of works online, tried to carry out a survey of artists →
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16:07:02 Pixelhugger, nostalgic for the low resolution.
Pixelhugger is a site that wants to celebrate the density of the basic digital visual information, ie the →
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16:07:02 Ogg Vorbis to 1.0 for developers.
Ogg Vorbis, the audio compression format that open source has arrived at version 1.0 for developers in its →
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07/16/02 New multimedia multimedia in Barcelona.
It has recently opened a new media library of contemporary art center of Barcelona 'Caixa Forum'. In addition to →
. Hacktivism 
16:07:02 CyberSLAPP, more privacy in the chat.
Five associations for the defense of individual liberty have undertaken an initiative to increase privacy for users of →
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15/07/02 Bruce Springsteen, protect an album by keeping it hidden until the release date.
The upcoming album by Bruce Springsteen, ('The Rising') in the studio →
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15:07:02 Incubation2, festival for electronic art text.
Inaugurated on July 15 at Nottingham Trent University Incubation2, the 2nd International Conference on Trace Writing and the →
. Hacktivism 
15/07/02 New information from Elcomsoft on how to bypass the protections of the ebook Adobe.
Russia's Elcomsoft, a few weeks after the trial of Adobe →
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15:07:02 ASCII-O-Matic, each image is made up of characters.
ASCII-O-Matic is a converter ascii images in the same style in which they produced artifacts ascii-art →
