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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30.04.02 Project Dante, The Divine Comedy reinterpreted in a post-telematics.
Not surprisingly, after centuries a work as the Divine Comedy continue to arouse interest in →
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30.04.02 Concerts: Mouse on Mars, Dimitri from Paris.
On April 30, at Brancaleone in Rome takes place one evening with all the major techno-trance crew →
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30.04.02 Bugnosis, software to find out which data from your computer.
Bugnosis is a new tool for privacy was presented at the Conference of Computers, →
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29.04.02 Yapaitu.org, Flash Art Argentina.
Juan Manuel Patiño is the artist of Buenos Aires holds Yapaitu.org , the site where he collects his experiments in →
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29.04.02 Net_ / Working, net art that conceptualizes networking.
Net_ / Working is one of the last works of Glorious Ninth, the pseudonym of the →
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29.04.02 Let my music free on the net.
Joseph Byrd is the author of a couple of somewhat experimental psychedelic album ('The United States of →
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29.04.02 Grandfather Gets a House, net art literary collective.
Grandfather Gets a House is a literary work of net art organized by Elizabeth Fischer, and →
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29.04.02 Vietnamese dissident arrested for his lyrics on the net + Censorship of the Deutsche Bahn to Google.
– In Hanoi (Vietnam) was arrested Pham →
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26.04.02 Plug'n'play, laptop collective session in London.
Like every last Sunday of the month at the local 'Public Life' evening is held in London Plug'n'play →
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26.04.02 Weekender: Micronanze festival, Aquasky, Prefuse 73, Dreadzone Soundsystem and Superfunk.
Inaugurated Friday, April 26 mini-festival 'Micronanze', the first part of some micro-events that replace →
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26.04.02 [. / LogicalAnd v0.1], net art as a simulation of global economic activity.
After a long downloading all the java libraries needed to run →
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26.04.02 Defacing the site of the Federal Aviation Administration.
The officers of the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the intrusion of their computer network and the →
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26.04.02 E-privacy, confidentiality and individual rights on the network, conference and Crypto Install fest in Florence.
It takes place on April 27 in the Hall →
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26.04.02 <DI> fusion, twenty-four hours of performance in collaborative webcasting.
Being able to fully express best practice network in a collective event is not a →
