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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10/16/01 archives of Steina and Woody Vasulka online.
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology has put online a section of its website →
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15:10:01 Napster, mp3Pro, sales and other stories.
– Sales down. According to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) world music sales on physical →
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15:10:01 :: contagion ::.
Is in progress at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington, New Zealand, :: contagion :: , an exhibition of Australian →
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15:10:01 solos European Union.
L ' solos , the Italian Association for Free Software has joined the European Free Software Foundation Europe. The solos lately →
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10.15.01 Activities in New York.
It was inaugurated yesterday at the Postmasters Gallery in New York, the exhibition ' Activities ', which explores the different →
– Friday in Rome, at the community center Brancaleone
. Freq Nasty (pictured), big beat. Uk
– Friday Massafra (Taranto), the Mind 'Rron
. Let's dance, dark wave, electro with →
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12:10:01 TGarden.
In Werkstad weekend at Las Palmas in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will be inaugurated the installation TGarden artists foam and sponge. It consists of an →
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12:10:01 Servecity.
At the historic center of Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, today and tomorrow will take place on the international symposium ' Servecity, living and working →
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10/12/01 Presentation 'The search engines in the chaos of the network'.
Tomorrow at 17:00 in the Auditorium of the Praetorian Palace in Piazza Farinata degli →
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12:10:01 Maap / Extreme.
Inaugurated today in Brisbane, Australia, the fourth edition of the Multimedia Art Asia Pacific , an art festival of new media, →
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12:10:01 Elektronic.
From now until October 18 at the Barbican Centre in London will be held ' Elektronic ', electronic music festival dedicated to the →
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12:10:01 CTRL [SPACE].
It opens today at the ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe, Germany, CTRL [SPACE] , an exhibition of works and →
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10/11/01 Wizard of OS.
After two years since the first edition Wizard of OS , dedicated, in continuity with the previous edition, the 'Open Cultures →
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11:10:01 Performance of the SPC at 19:00.
Exactly one month after the disaster at the World Trade Center at 19:00 Italian time the New York →
