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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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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Gaudenz Badrutt – Ganglions

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Vinyl – Aussenraum

Sinusoidal sounds, internal and external feedback, hits of piercing and infectious noise, and also repeated, sensitive and hissing drone deposits. This is the list of frequencies we get when we listen to Ganglions, an audio-project by Gaudenz →

audio artemusicexperimental 10 Jul 2020

Bill Seaman – The Topologies of Blue

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CD – Fluid Audio

An album inspired by the psychology of Gestalt and by the topology of the colour blue is definitely unusual, despite the fact that other artists, musicians and philosophers have also been enchanted by the charm of →

audio artexperimental 8 Jul 2020

The V[R]erses, virtual objects of literature

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Certainly one of the most interesting experimenter ever in writing with technologies, Mez Breeze has transversed online eras with remarkable practices. Her new work The V[R]erses is a microstory experienced through 3D rendered forms, which have text ‘nodes’ as →

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Javier Lloret – 1000 Synsets (Vinyl Edition) Vol II

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Vinyl – Javier Lloret

Dating from 1985, WordNet is a semantic-lexical database for the English language, a hierarchical classification system describing the world, inspired by the theories of human semantic memory developed at the end of 1960s. In contrast to →

audio artexperimental 3 Jul 2020

The Data Stones, geomorphic meditation

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The abstraction imposed by the digital is mirrored by the previous abstractions created by humans, such as language, signs and, more generally, artificial representations. In Peter AC Nelson’s “The Data Stones”, this abstraction occurs at multiple levels. It overlaps with →

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Philip Samartzis & Eric La Casa – Captured Space

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Cassette – Crónica

Even in Kruger National Park (South Africa), a huge subtropical area, crossed by many rivers and by the Tropic of Capricorn, hosting the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, it is possible to identify a sharp division between →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 29 Jun 2020

Hold That Task. This Is On. Speaking to invisible Amazon workers

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The dream of vocal assistants is speak to a machine whose behavior is indistinguishable from that of a human. But behind this dream lurks a global team at Amazon that reviews Alexa customers’ audio clips of all kinds of utterances. →

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Maryanne Amacher – Petra

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CD – Blank Forms

Maryanne Amacher, a pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausene and George Rochberg, created City Links: Buffalo in 1967, a 28 hour work where she uses 5 microphones in different parts of the city, transmitted in real time through →

acousticaudio artexperimental 22 Jun 2020

Neural 65, Redirecting Networks + extra: Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe

Neural 65. Redirecting Networks, Critical Atlas of Internet

Neural 65, Redirecting Networks + extra: Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe. Subscribe now!

Issue #65, Winter 2020 ISSN: 2037-108X

Subscribe now! The extra / artist intervention, exclusive for subscribers (Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe) is already →

20 Jun 2020

Neural 65 extra: Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe

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Neural #65 extra is an intervention by artists Louise Drulhe in the form of a booklet and a critical text (“Beyond Lines and Nodes”) by Kristoffer Gansing (ex artistic director of Transmediale).
In the words of Druhle:
“Through a →

20 Jun 2020

(edited by) Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof – Parallax Symmetry

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Spector Books / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ISBN-13: 978-3959053501, German, 146 pages, 2019, Germany

The multiple artistic endeavours of Carsten Nicolai have been acknowledged in numerous exhibitions and performances all over the world. Parallax Symmetry is a →

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Six Microphones – Six Microphones

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2 x Vinyl – Counter Audition

This elegant, milky white vinyl box by a new label in Cambridge, Counter Audition, includes two wonderful 12 inch vinyl records. A digital edition edited by Line from Los Angeles is also attached. After →

audio artexperimental 17 Jun 2020

Roland Kayn – Scanning

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10CD Box – Reiger Records Reeks

Here more than 10 hours of sound loops are presented in an elegant 10 CD box. This is Scanning by Roland Kayn. The work was entirely remastered by Jim O’Rourke, always a huge fan →

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Arthur I. Miller – The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity

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The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262042857, English, 432 pages, 2019, USA

Since the eighties (and the false prediction of full Artificial Intellifence by the end of nineties), the dream of AI has been grounded on →

artificial intelligencebookscience 10 Jun 2020

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