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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15:05:02 Face of Aphex Twin encoded in a track + trick to copy protected cd.
– It seems to arrive directly from the worst nightmares →
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15:05:02 The books of literary art printed 'on demand' Alt-X.
Alt-X, the publishing house specializing in electronic literature, put on by Mark Amerika almost ten →
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14:05:02 Locked in Shanghai two hundred Internet Bar
The Shanghai police have closed about two hundred Internet Bar to be found without the license required →
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14:05:02 Metapet, videogame art workers genetically modified.
On May 15, is launched in Los Angeles' Metapet ', an online game created by Natalie Bookchin with →
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14:05:02 Distillates, videopoema decomposed.
Distillates is a 'transposition' of the web of a work of video artist RobRoy Chalmers, which combines a poem written and →
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14:05:02 Biocapture 1.0, net art literary loop.
Siratori Kenji, a young author of Sapporo (Japan), self-described 'hypermodern writer who works in a digital environment' and →
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14:05:02 Angelica festival in Bologna.
It was inaugurated on April 13 the twelfth edition of Angelica, the International Music festival which this year is presented →
by Alessandro Ludovico
‘Digital with human touch’, this is often a synthetic description of your music. Do you think we’re getting used by interfacing ourselves with machines in a more and more symbiotic relationship, or →
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13:05:02 Peru chooses the free software.
In a letter polite but very firm , David Villanueva Nuñez, deputy Peruvian responded to the national headquarters of →
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05/13/02 Net art Italian: New virus Epidemic + Their Circular Life + Hypermacbeth.
– ' bocconi.vbs 'is the name of the new virus produced by →
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05/13/02 Music Plus, the jukebox of the digital age.
The first model on the market of digital jukebox is called Music Plus and is produced →
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13:05:02 Censored by net art of Knowbotic Research.
The work of net art of Swiss Knowbotic Research ' Minds of Concern: Breaking News 'has been →
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5/13/02 Banner Art Collective, web art of the banner.
The Banner Art Collective creates and collects web art within the constraints and contexts of advertising →
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10:05:02 Weekender: SoFar festival, Nobukazu Takemura, Diamanda Galas, Full Cycle, Transgobal Underground, Llorca, Dimitri From Paris.
From May 9 to 12 in Catania held 'SoFar, →
