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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19:04:02 How to defend against Carnivore with Linux.
Alex Iliev is a graduate student at Dartmouth College in San Francisco and has compiled a software →
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19:04:02 Dataland, where memories are date code and behavior is.
Dataland, where memories are date code and behavior is is an online exhibition of six →
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18:04:02 Version02, digital culture festival radical.
It opens April 18 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (USA) Version02 , digital culture festival radical →
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18:04:02 Frankenstain 02, techno-web-performance in Macerata.
On April 18, the Social Center Earthquake Macerata, at 21:00 takes' Frankenstein 02 – We are all creatures, Cyborg, →
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18:04:02 Britney's Dance Beat, the game of Britney Spears.
Britney's Dance Beat is the new game of THQ with an avatar of Britney Spears for →
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18:04:02 Big Torino 2002, a young art electronics.
Inaugurated on April 19 in Turin, Big Torino 2002 , the biennial exhibition of young artists in →
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18:04:02 attacks to cyber security of many U.S. government sites are silenced.
According to an investigation by the FBI computer crime section of San Francisco, →
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04.17.02 Total Recorder, record streams in wave format.
Total Recorder is a software for Windows (95 and above) who promises to relizzare a trick worthy →
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Electrons 17:04:02 aesthetic, art prof. Eric J. Heller.
Few art forms are so 'electronic' as that made by Eric J. Heller , professor of physics →
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17:04:02 Is Not Analog Digital 2002 in Milan.
Inaugurated on April 17 at 19:30 at the Infopoints of Pond Street, 2 Milan (reservations required 02-57404540), →
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17:04:02 Colorbot, color theory in action.
The color theories have been developed in parallel with the history of art with artists from different eras to →
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17:04:02 Computers Freedom and Privacy 2002.
Open at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco on April 16, the conference Computers Freedom and Privacy 2002 →
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16:04:02 Strike!.
Today, April 16, 2002 Neural will not be updated for membership to the general strike in solidarity with all the workers of the →
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15:04:02 Web 3D Art 2002, net art three-dimensional.
Web 3D Art 2002 is an online exhibition, organized on the occasion of the seventh International Conference →
