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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13:11:01 For the U.S. arrive superassalti computer.
According to Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the 'cyber security' of U.S. President George W. Bush, future attacks →
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13:11:01 QDC.
Inaugurated tonight at 18:00 at the Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome dÕArte ' Quadro Digital Contemporary 'a project that →
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13:11:01 Need anything.
What You Need? is a work of net.art Tuomo Tammenpää, a media artist Helsinki lanciodi author of a company 'satirical' that has →
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13:11:01 Futuresonic.
It takes place in Manchester (England) as every year's edition Futuresonic 'festival of sonic pleasure and audiovisual arts', which puts in six days →
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13:11:01 dataTransfer.
Since yesterday held all'Archa Theatre in Prague (Czech Republic) dataTransfer , festival of cyber culture, internet, design and performance, dedicated to the Czech →
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12:11:01 WebTracker spying.
For 'Web trackers' means those software technologies that are designed to track the habits in order to plan for appropriate marketing actions, →
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11.12.01 Protected the CD of Natalie Imbruglia.
The new album by Natalie Imbruglia 'White Lillies Island' is the first cd protected in its official release →
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12:11:01 Elektra Festival.
Is being held for several days at Usine C'' 'in Montreal (Canada) on the third Elektra Festival , subtitled 'electronic music, digital →
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12:11:01 Artimage 05.
It ended a few days in Graz (Austria), the fifth ' Artimage, biennial on media and architecture ', a massive event on →
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07:11:01 What Do You Want To Do With It?.
It was opened yesterday at the ICA in London 'What Do You Want To Do With →
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07:11:01 Videolisboa.
Begins today in Lisbon (Portugal), Videolisboa Review of video and new media art in its aspects related. In addition to the video also →
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07:11:01 Keykatcher.
Another infernal ageggio hardware has been put on the market to put under control PC users. It is Keykatcher , an apparent plug →
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07:11:01 cwt.
Inaugurated today at the Milan Triennale CWT , an exhibition dedicated to the internet, video games, television and digital cinema, that in four →
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06:11:01 Wipout.
The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), has launched a self-celebratory international competition for students entitled 'What does intellectual property mean to you in →
