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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22:10:01 unhinged anti-piracy at Microsoft.
A software distributed anonymously under the pseudonym of 'Beale Screamer' can effectively undermine the digital rights management (DRM) implemented by →
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22:10:01 READ_ME 1.2.
It was inaugurated in recent days, the new premises of the Rosizo media art center in Moscow, Russia, the online portion of →
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22:10:01 Now Festival.
Inaugurated today, but will continue until November 11 at the Future-Peace Center in Nottingham, England, the Now Festival . Among the artists →
A common issue in presenting experimental music and sound art is finding an effective way to share with the audience the fun of exploring unconventional uses of musical objects. Reinventing, hacking and sometimes →
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19:10:01 What are you doing to me?.
I want to share you – What are you doing to me? net.art is a controversial work that →
– Friday in Reggio Emilia, the Maffia
. Mutiny, house. Uk
– Friday in Milan, at Cox 18
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– Saturday in Rome, the →
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19:10:01 Send + Receive.
Send + Receive is an online collaboration between sound artists from Canada, the United States and Austria, which last night remixed →
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19:10:01 Mixmove 2001.
Three days of electronic sounds and visions to the houses of Paris, from today until Sunday for the Mixmove 2001 , a →
. Hacktivism 
19:10:01 Jam Echelon Day
The annual Jam Echelon Day , organized by Cipherwar is scheduled for Sunday 21, with the usual invitation to send in →
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19:10:01 Nurturing the cybercommons.
It is also time of the annual meeting of the CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility), which this year celebrates its →
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18:10:01 We're Not Really Here.
' We're Not Really Here 'is a new net.art project created by the Irish Conor McGarrigle. It is based on →
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18:10:01 Tele (visions).
Inaugurated today at the Kunsthalle in Vienna Tele (visions) , a show dedicated to television, the medium par excellence, the main reservoir →
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18:10:01 mp4, Britney Spears dead and songs with expiration date.
– A combination of specifications for streaming audio and video in mpeg-4 on the web →
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18:10:01 Kruder & Dorfmeister, Ant-Zen night, Anubian Lights.
Begin today the Italian tour of Kruder & Dorfmeister, who will perform tonight at Goa in Rome, →
