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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22:02:02 Mitnick meets an old victim.
Ten years later there were handshakes and laughter between Kevin Mitnick and Shawn Nunley, the clerk of the Novell →
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22:02:02 Desert Rain, installation to remember the Gulf War.
Today it is presented in Prague (Czech Republic) Desert Rain , an installation made possible thanks →
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22:02:02 Young digital art in Linz.
Tomorrow night (23/02) to the Bruckner House of Linz (Austria) takes Bruckners Club a gathering of young digital artists →
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21:02:02 Microsoft Media Player 8 records the activities of the users.
The wolf loses the old version, but not vice. The new version (8) of →
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21:02:02 Royalties + online radio Technoseeker.
– The three-way battle between labels, traditional radio and online radio in the United States copyright seems to have →
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21:02:02 Singlecell, artificial life forms.
Singlecell , the gallery monthly works of net art has suspended updates to December last year promising a new series →
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02/21/02 Net art Italian: Limiteazero.
Limiteazero are a group of Italian designers, living in Milan, who spends part of his time to try new patterns →
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21:02:02 Bits and Pieces, net art algorithmic.
Bits and Pieces is the latest work by Daniel Brown and his plan Noodlebox. It is a ten-demo →
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20:02:02 Swound, net art for the blind.
The Brazilian Rick Silva says to refer openly to the works of Jodi and Superbad, paying homage to →
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20:02:02 Ram Project, see and hear the data in memory.
Ram Project is a video in Quicktime made by Cory Arcangel, interpreting the contents of →
. Hacktivism 
20:02:02 Netcorehacklab 1.1.0, network courses in Venice.
From tonight (20/02) for every Wednesday until 28 March to netcorehacklab 1.1.0 courses will take place over TCP →
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02/20/02 Net art in the collection of the Guggenheim.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has acquired in its permanent collection the two works of net →
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20:02:02 Modula, electronic music festival in Rome.
Continues after the live Jimi Tenor and Bola and Gescom, 'Modula', an international festival of electronic music at →
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20:02:02 Modula, electronic music festival in Rome.
Continues after the live Jimi Tenor and Bola and Gescom, 'Modula', an international festival of electronic music at →
