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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22:07:02 The fleetingness of bits, the information on the run.
The fleetingness of bits (The flight of bits) is un'ipertesto on the volatility, and the →
. EMusic 
22/07/02 New face of RIAA: we have to check the radio.
The major coalition in the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) fell on a →
. Hacktivism 
22:07:02 Still a failure in facial recognition.
The system test Identix (formerly called Visionics) Boston's Logan airport used for facial recognition of suspected terrorists have →
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19:07:02 subMETA, architexture of cyberspace.
The plans, spaces, lines that are formed from an architectural conception of space assets are still a largely unexplored territory. →
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19:07:02 Orbital, generative poem.
Orbital: a postcard to space travel is a generative poem created by Neil Jenkins on an original text by Mac Dunlop. →
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19:07:02 Nanoensembles, generative sound machines.
The Nanoensembles by Antoine Schmitt are generative sound machines that evolve as time goes on unabated, and in a completely →
. Hacktivism 
19:07:02 d.sec, camping on the freedom to communicate.
Begins July 19 and runs until 28 of the same d.sec , an event for the promotion →
. EMusic 
19:07:02 Eraldo Bernocchi: participatory workshops and concert.
Saturday, July 20 at the Cloisters of St. Peter Reggio Emilia, in the context of Molteplicittà the Maffia →
. Hacktivism 
18:07:02 Chain USA sells cheap computers with Lindows.
The site of the chain of electronics stores Wal-Mart began to offer its customers cheap computers without →
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18:07:02 LYR, minimal audio / video generative.
LYR is a software for mac Kurt Ralske, which uses generative algorithms and minimal interaction with the user →
. EMusic 
18:07:02 Janis Ian: why free downloads help artists.
In a detailed article written for-CNet News.com, the American singer-songwriter Janis Ian says in a natural and →
. Art 
18:07:02 Cinq Ailleurs, the memory of subjects that are elsewhere.
Cinq Ailleurs (Five elsewhere) by Nicolas Clauss (author of Flying Puppet. ) is a work →
. Art 
18:07:02 Arteroids 2.0, web literary computer game.
Defined by its author 'the battle of poetry against itself and the forces of stupidity' Arteroids 2.0 is →
. 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 →
