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.
. Art 
05/10/02 Traffic Report, made public its traffic data.
Traffic Report is an experiment of 'voyeurism date' or 'date exhibitionism' if you prefer that involves thirty-two →
. Hacktivism 
10:05:02 Chromatic, software for surveillance cameras that 'expected' behavior.
Sergio Velastin researcher Kingston University London has developed a software, renamed Chromatic, which in its intentions →
. Art 
10:05:02 Clipit!, Share 'copy and paste' with the rest of the network.
Clipit! is a free downloadable software that allows you to share network with →
. Art 
10:05:02 Chloe, net art photography.
' Chloe 'is a portrait of an eponymous delicious and obsessive child, professional model, shot by Eduardo Navas at the →
. Art 
05/09/02 Subtle Technologies 02, Art and Science in Toronto.
Begins May 9 at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto (Canada) 02 Subtle Technologies , an →
. EMusic 
05.09.02 Seminar on electronic music in Bari
On May 9, 12 in the Hall of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bari, →
. Art 
09:05:02 Scan Disk, screens reinterpreted by Henry Mitrovich in Milan.
Until May 31, you can visit the gallery of Milan ABC ' Scan Disk, surface →
. Hacktivism 
09:05:02 penalized U.S. libraries that do not censor their content.
The oldest group for the defense of civil liberties U.S., the ' American Civil Liberties →
. Art 
09:05:02 Hors en Ligne, media art exhibition in Montreal.
It is held until May 25 at the Maison de culture Côte-des-Neiges in Montreal (Canada) Hors →
by Alessandro Ludovico
You said that “The body became a source as well as a site for surveillance.” Surveillance also means the disembodiement of people and the construction of the people’s data-doubles. It’s a progressive loss →
. EMusic 
03:05:02 Tom Waits new album streaming for a few days.
In contrast with the software and barriers to the criminalization of free listening, Anti Records →
. Art 
03:05:02 Open_Source_Art_Hack, net art activist.
' Open_Source_Art_Hack 'is a group exhibition which opens May 3 at Z Media Lounge at the New Museum in Manhattan. →
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03:05:02 Mythic Hybrid, cyberfeminism Indian art.
' Mythic Hybrid 'is the new net art work of Prema Murthy, already the author of Bindigirl (see Bindigirl, →
. Hacktivism 
03:05:02 'Gigabyte', the girl who wrote 'Sharpei', the first virus for. NET platform from Microsoft.
Gigabyte is the nickname of the Belgian girl who created →
