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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10.01.01 Problems of bandwidth.
The bandwidth (bandwidth) starts to be insufficient in college. Here, in fact, downloading music and video files is becoming a common →
. EMusic 
01/10/01 Music Online Competition Act
Some memebri of the Congress of the United States, are coalescing to repel the Music Online Competition Act (MOCA), a →
. Art 
01:10:01 Meta4walls.
meta4walls is an art project about online privacy developed by Lucas Bambozzi. It consists of a test site, programmed in Flash, which simulates →
– Friday in Rome, at the Teatro Vessel
. Passarani Marco (pictured) vs. TeZ TRIVID, electro
– Friday in Rome, at the community center Brancaleone
. Strek Vs. Atzmo, bleep →
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28.09.01 Photoshop tennis.
Among the recreational activities of the graphic designer on the network there is a new type of interactive game. It's called ' →
. Hacktivism 
28.09.01 In defense of freedom.
A poster for the defense of personal freedoms ( In defense of freedom ) ten-point agreement was signed at the →
. Hacktivism 
27.09.01 Telematics Social Vs. Digital Divide.
Tonight at 21:00 at the Festival of Liberation in Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Nuovavia and Newbrainframes Project in collaboration →
. Art 
27.09.01 Electrofringe Festival.
Begins today in Newcastle, New South Wales, in Australia, the ' Festival Electrofringe a huge demonstration that collects hundreds of artists, media →
. Art 
27.09.01 Borderhack online exhibition.
It is available for some days the archive of the Borderhack Attachment Online Exhibition , presented by Fran Ilich on August →
. Art 
26.09.01 Wireless Taps & Short Wave Commotions.
From today until Sunday at V2_Organisatie of Rotterdam (Netherlands), will be held ' Wireless Taps & Short Wave →
. Hacktivism 
26.09.01 Hysteria anti-hacker.
Long wave of terror, the Department of Justice of the United States is pressing Congress to quickly approve the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), →
. EMusic 
26.09.01 anti-copy CD: Michael Jackson and U2.
The new album by Michael Jackson (Rock Your World) will not be able to listen on your PC, →
. Art 
25.09.01 Location / Dislocation.
It opens today in the space Z Media Lounge at the New Museum in New York City Location / Dislocation , →
. Art 
25.09.01 Identity of adolescents.
WHERE IS RUDY_table of possibilities is a project dedicated to adolescence interpreted as the middle ground and border which takes place →
