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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10/04/02 Digital Show Reception, digital art in Iowa City.
Inaugurated on April 10 April at the University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City →
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4/10/02 Abstract, net.video detectors.
' Abstract 'is a series of short videos that release all the evocative power of the algorithm and aesthetics of blur, →
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09:04:02 Natural VLF Radio, sounds and atmosphere of the space.
Natural VLF Radio is one of the websites provided more information and recordings of 'Natural →
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4.9.02. Art, the territories of net art in Turin.
It takes place on April 9th at the Palace of Turin Lionello Venturi, '. Territories art →
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04.09.02 RND #, video technology interpreted.
The project RND # (ie Random Number) consists of short films that explore our relationship and bizarre dependence on →
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09:04:02 Hacker vs Sysadmin, workshops in Catania.
On April 9, the Cultural ZO Cantieri di Catania, at 21:00, holding the workshop 'Hacker vs Sysadmin, good →
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09:04:02 Delter, analysis software for mpeg movies.
The digital movies contain its own 'grammar' technique that distinguishes the faults and sequence of approximations, subject to →
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08:04:02 tiny cameras for firefighters, cars and soldiers.
The record infrared cameras smaller in absolute terms (as deep as a key) is now owned by →
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08:04:02 Silence Machine, the machine of silence.
Selwyn Wright, ingenere and professor at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire (UK), has developed after two years →
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08:04:02 n3xt.com, net art visual loop.
' n3xt.com 'presented a few months ago by the DIAN, is a work of net art film by the →
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8:04:02 The Mirror Project pictures in reflective surfaces.
One of the things that undoubtedly has always fascinated the human imagination are reflective surfaces such as →
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08:04:02 DIAN presents Dakota, net art of literary Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
The DIAN (Digital Interactive Artists' Network) is a network dedicated to those who →
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05:04:02 Weekender: Coil, a tribute to Peter Grossi, Blake Baxter + Chemical Brothers on the radio.
Saturday, April 6 c '? the only Italian date →
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05/04/02 Net art Italian: Torinorama.
Torinorama ,? a 'orama', ie an attempt of new hypertext literature and not sequentially developed by David Boardman and Paolo →
