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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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 →
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07.26.02 Playground, electronic art for the game.
Inaugurated on July 26 in Stralsund (Germany), Playground , an international gathering of electronic artists who share in →
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26/07/02 Canal-Bleu, self-managed media art.
As an alternative to the already challenged the new edition of Documenta is held in Kassel (Germany) on July 26 →
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26/07/02 The ACLU tries to dismantle the DMCA.
With a bold surprise move the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the House N2H2 software, →
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07/25/02 All DJ with iPods.
APT, stylish nightclub in Manhattan dj console does not have a turntable. Despite the presence of a classic mixer, in →
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07/25/02 Good News / Bad News.
Good News / Bad News is a project group of assets that Typorganism made available on the web after →
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07/25/02 The 50 agencies cyber.security American are not coordinated.
According to a report of the U.S. Congress, not less than fifty federal organizations responsible for →
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07.25.02 Carrier, organic virus to live with virtually.
Carrier is a work of art web developed by Melinda Rackham and Damien Everett John Tonkin that →
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24.07.02 Suicide Journal, the blog of thoughts diverted.
Suicide Journal is a blog that lingers in many forms to the poetic thought of self, abstracting →
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24.07.02 The Cyber Kitchen, collaborative web art.
The Cyber Kitchen is a project of collaborative web art that opened on July 23, involves thirty artists →
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24.07.02 Available for download Camera / Shy, software to circumvent censorship.
Camera / Shy is the much-discussed Windows software that performs the encoding of the →
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24.07.02 Boodler, free software to generate sound environments.
Boodler is a software that creates 'soundscapes', ie background sound infinitely varying stream of the specified sound. →
