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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04:12:01 Show net.art treated collectively.
The ' Irish Museum of Modern Art has announced its first exhibition of net.art trying to defy the paradox of →
. Art 
12.04.01 Remix artfully.
Diskompactor is a new piece of software.art (freely downloadable) able to remix any CD inserted in the CD-ROM for PC. Built by →
. EMusic 
04:12:01 Degradation digital.
Microsuoni, the Italian distributor of experimental electronic music, inaugurated on his website ' Degradation digital ¡ ', a first draft format freely →
. Hacktivism 
04:12:01 Deleted Cypherpunks the list.
In one of the first unions prolific science and social commitment, the mailing list Cypherpunks had managed to combine radical →
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04:12:01 BaudriR, Baudrillard in chat.
BaudriR is a net.art project which traced playing live in different chat rooms of the book by Jean Baudrillard 'In →
. Art 
03:12:01 video theater and multimedia performance.
Today at 21:00 at the Centre for Contemporary Art "Luigi Pecci" in Prato, in the context of CLICK_LAB (see →
. EMusic 
03:12:01 Kazaa, George Harrison.
– After the judgment of a court in Amsterdam, the owners of Kazaa P2P software (one of the most reliable successors →
. Art 
03:12:01 Auction for The Thing NY.
Up to December 16, you can attend the auction in cash flow put on by The Thing NY , →
. Hacktivism 
03:12:01 A school of hacking.
In the 11th arrondissement of Paris is the sort ' Hackademy Zi ', renamed by the mainstream media' the first →
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12/03/01 Animations.
The gallery PS1 in New York is in progress and events , an exhibition dedicated to contemporary artists' perceptions of the animation as →
– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. Maffia Sound System, Agatha Crew, Alyosha – Turntable against the war. I
– Friday in Rome, at the Bluecheese
. Santos, mantra vibes. →
. EMusic 
30.11.01 SMDI, open secret.
In addition to the defeat of 2600, site + magazine, which had defended the free dissemination of DeCSS software through links →
. Hacktivism 
Linux Day 30.11.01
Tomorrow is held all over Italy the Linux Day 2001 , sponsored dall'ILS (Italian Linux Society), the first national day of Linux →
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30.11.01 Life 4.0.
The jury of Life 4.0 , formed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman, Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara and Nell Tenhaaf, and announced →
