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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10:09:01 Rekombinant: conference.
It continues today a conference organized by Rekombinant (the study group policy ricombinativa) to Level 57 in Bologna, entitled 'Imaginary, perspectives and →
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10/09/01 Philips E-radio.
Philips has also produced its first model capable of receiving radio stations that broadcast over the network. The model is called FW-i1000. →
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10:09:01 CoSign 2001.
Inaugurated in Amsterdam today CoSign 2001 , the first International Conference on Computational Semiotics in games and new media. The focus will →
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07/09/01 Against the surveillance cameras.
Today is held the 'International Day against Cameras Control' organized to raise awareness of every where against the constant and →
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07:09:01 Re.set.
Finally, even the mega-musical programming of the Unity Day of Reggio Emilia dedicates a space to the DJ culture. By concentrating all in →
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07/09/01 Music trading at record levels.
According to a recent study by Jupiter Media Metrix, a record 15 million people have downloaded music from the →
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06:09:01 Wolfgang Staehle.
At the Postmasters Gallery in New York today sinaugura '2001 "the first exhibition dedicated to Wolfgang Staehle, founder of The Thing, historical →
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09.06.01 Protection CD: CDS.
The Israeli Midbar grossed a first agreement with major label BMG regarding the protection of CDs from being copied. The type →
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06:09:01 Robertson from mp3.com to Lindows.
Michael Robertson, after being removed from the leadership of mp3.com, following the acquisition by Vivendi (digital arm of Universal-Sony) →
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31.08.01 The Society of Control.
Today and tomorrow at the theater De Balie in Amsterdam, presentations and art installations on the theme of 'The Society →
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31.08.01 Portraits in the shadows of the square.
Si'naugura today Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam a new electronic installation by Mexican artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer square titled →
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31.08.01 New Track Aphex Twin online.
By registering on the site of the Warp is possible to receive a link to the clip in RealAudio →
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08/30/01 Sklyarov risks jail.
It did not go well the first hearing for Dmitry Sklyarov, the 27 year-old arrested after the submission of the last →
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08/30/01 Carte Blanche.
In Livecast at 20:30 this evening, another round of V2_Organisatie of Rotterdam. It is 'Carte Blanche', a seminar on the transformation of →
