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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06/06/02 8081, the new work of net art.
The collective of the 8081 Turin has presented these days some new areas on →
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05:06:02 The privacy according to IBM.
The new ' Privacy Institute 'messu of IBM has announced new technologies that could help the protection of privacy, →
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05:06:02 Lost Love, net art of storytelling poignant.
The wounds left by the broken love heal but leave visible scars that remind the wearer has →
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05:06:02 Hiperlook, alternative browser.
hiperlook 1.0 is a demo version of another alternative browser, which is part of the project Hipercubo (OK) on the connections →
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05:06:02 GuitarPort, virtual amp to jam with guitar and PC.
The ' GuitarPort 'Line 6 is a combination of hardware and software to make jam →
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04:06:02 The Allegorical Impulse, an essay chewed from the web.
The installation The Allegorical Impulse Part I , is a net art project that rehashes →
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04/06/02 Hacking the Xbox.
Andrew Huang, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seems to have found a way to trick the →
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04:06:02 Cybersonica, an international festival of digital sounds and music.
Inaugurated on June 4 at the ICA in London Cybersonica , an international festival of →
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04.06.02 with | text, net art literature.
with | text is accessible online net art exhibition conceived that, in the words of its editors, as →
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03:06:02 Minitasking, software art to gnutella.
Data visualization is a process that makes visible their disembodied presence, a microscope calculated that reveals the invisible processes →
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06/03/02 Karaoke perfect, according to the singer.
Japan's Chiyoda Corp has signed an agreement with the chip maker Analog Devices and Toru Iwatake, a professor →
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03:06:02 Hacker Journal, a biweekly current issue of information security.
Thirty-two color pages without advertising, with lots of news and some brief insights, that is →
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03.06.02 Cristiano Pintaldi, the painter of pixels.
The first retrospective exhibition (six pieces in all) Cristiano Pintaldi is ongoing at the arts center the Fish →
by Alessandro Ludovico.
Our perception of viruses stems both from the way we consider the most recent epidemic diseases, such as AIDS, and from an innate fear of having one’s own body invaded by other efficient organisms, capable of →
