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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16:07:01 Tuxedo Moon in Italy.
Begin today the Italian tour of Tuxedo Moon, who will play tonight at Villa Ada in Rome. From Wednesday will →
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16:07:01 Facial Recognition in the street.
Big Brother? 1984? Trifles. In the district of Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, surveillance cameras placed in the street store →
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16:07:01 Digital Deviance.
It was inaugurated a few days at the Magasin in Grenoble (France) Digital Deviance , an exhibition of digital art dedicated to →
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7/16/01 Crossing Over 6.
Just begun in Liverpool Crossing Over 6. (CO6) Micro-Digital Film Festival of Cultures , an international festival of digital films. Opened →
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13:07:01 Mp3 Summit.
Second and last day for the ' Mp3 Summit 2001 held in San Diego from Mp3.com. Titled 'Mobilizing Your Music' has concentrated →
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13:07:01 Mediacircus.
In the next weekend will be held in Melbourne (Australia) Mediacircus two days of meetings and seminars on the critical and conscious of →
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13:07:01 Def Con 9.
Begins today in Las Vegas the ninth edition of Def Con , one of the most-watched American hacker convention, characterized collect →
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13:07:01 Babel.
Today is presented Babel , the new online work by Simon Biggs, commissioned by Focal Point Gallery in collaboration with the libraries of →
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12:07:01 Station Rose, 10 years of online business.
The Station Rose today celebrating ten years of online activities with yet another webcast tonight at 21:00, →
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12:07:01 Gattibonsai.it, another stupid seizure.
That the forces of order and control are lacking a sense of humor is well known. Gattibonsai.it , clone bonsaikitten →
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07/12/01 Final Fantasy, the movie.
He made his debut yesterday in theaters Final Fantasy The Spirits Within , the first film inspired by the famous →
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11:07:01 Pressplay: agreement with Microsoft.
Pressplay is in talks with Microsoft to offer its online subscription services to the tracks on the MSN network. An →
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11/07/01 Global Tools.
Global Tools is an exhibition that research in the 'universal meanings' and tries to find links between different scenarios presented by architects →
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11/07/01 ADE (Art_Digital_Era).
Today and tomorrow in Polverigi (Ancona), held A_D_E_ Art_Digital_Era_ , a festival of performing arts that have to do with the digital →
