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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01/16/02 Hi-Tech Hate, six boys under indictment by the GDF.
Whisk the hacker on the front page, a story old and already 'seen it many →
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01/16/02 Future Film Festival 2002.
Inaugurated today in the fourth edition of the Bologna Future Film Festival , an exhibition dedicated to new technologies of →
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16:01:02 Videogame art (2): Children of the Bureaucrats of the Revolution.
Bureaucrats of the Children of the Revolution is a set of dances created by →
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16:01:02 Videogame art (1): Atari Noise.
Atari Noise is an artist Arcangel Costantini, who recovers, smontandone the functional requirements, the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), →
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15:01:02 Richard Stallman: No more attachments word.
Richard Stallman took a stand against a practice quite common, which is to send texts via e-mail as →
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15:01:02 Scyphiform :: Confluence: Glutinate, net art history.
'Scyphiform :: Confluence: Glutinate' , is one of the works 'historical' net art that dates back to →
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15:01:02 Online Music, fibrillation industry.
Many are the stirrings of the beginning of 2002 in the music industry in relation to its ambitions in the →
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15:01:02 Lindows: seized the mailing list.
In a message posted on the website of LindowsOS, its CEO Michael Robertson warned readers that the continuation of →
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15:01:02 Fuzzy Dreams, net art of the loop.
Fuzzy Dreams is a work of net art of Doctor Hugo, Belgian artist and researcher. It essentially →
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14:01:02 Tigerlily, how to become a net artist.
Tigerlily is a portal to net art Dutch and international structured from the perspective of providing a →
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14:01:02 Ogg Vorbis RC3.
The expected release of RC3 Ogg Vorbis is ready to be downloaded from the website of the consortium of programmers who →
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01.14.02 Bill Gates is dead! (But it's only a movie).
He made his debut yesterday, 13 January, at the Slamdance Film Festival, ' Nothing So →
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14:01:02 MOVET (Musical Optics for a Visual Entertainment Time).
The 'Movet' ( Musical Optics for a Visual Entertainment Time ) shockwave animations are sensitive to →
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14:01:02 Browser Gestures, alternative browsers.
Mark Daggett (author of Deskswap, see ) has developed a series of applications of net art that seek to reinterpret →
