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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04:07:02 Donate computers to the poor areas of London and for Africa.
Computer Aid , the largest non-profit global organization for the donation of computers →
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07/04/02 Active metaphore, Carnivore client of Limiteazero.
The Milan group of Limiteazero has made available on its website ' Active metaphore ', a graphical client →
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02:07:02 Mp3 for Game Boy.
The SongPro , rampant California startup, is going to put on the market a device that can play MP3 files →
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02:07:02 'The Art of Deception' the first novel by Kevin Mitnick.
Kevin Mitnick, who still can not use the internet in all its forms, even →
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02:07:02 Glyphiti, collaborative net art of black and white.
Glyphiti Andy Deck consists of an image made up of dozens of small decorations ('glyph') which →
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02:07:02 alpha3.4, internet physics.
The group tsunamii.net has created one of the few jobs that relate to the internet for this year's edition of Documenta. →
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01:07:02 BorderXings Guide + Net art at the Tate Gallery.
Two new net art projects are presented on July 1 at the Tate Gallery in →
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01:07:02 Potluck, refined shockwave sequencing.
Potluck is another interactive sequencing implemented by technologies that allow the fruition online. Made by Amy Franceschini (ex Futurefarmers) puts →
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01:07:02 Victory 2600 for Ford.
The Ford Motor Company has officially and unconditionally dropped the case against the magazine 2600, the hacker's quarterly, →
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27.06.02 Yaha.E, worms attack the site of the Pakistani government.
The website of the government of Pakistan seems to have been the victim of an →
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27.06.02 Stub, software art computer in extreme circumstances.
stub.org * 31137_snd is a software for mac Ade Ward explores the possibilities of the environment of →
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27.06.02 SoundRaider, the sounds of your machine.
Booming music scene 'powerbook' or 'laptop', if you prefer, in which fine electronic artists playing digital files and →
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27.06.02 International Computers * Error * [Cadavres Exqu! S], poems recombined
International Computers * Error * [Cadavres Exqu! S] is a generator of poetic texts →
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27.06.02 Anti-Mafia Gnutella software for the epidemic.
Anti-Mafia , is a software for Windows, created by the group of epidemiC, extensive crew of net artists →
