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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Subversive 08:06:01 (show + ground transfer).
Tomorrow night and Sunday to csoa Forte Prenestino Rome, issues Topolin present the exhibition Subversive, made up of works →
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08:06:01 Archive Net.Congestion open.
Is presented tonight at the theater De Balie in Amsterdam net.congestion web , accessible online archive of the International Festival of →
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06/08/01 Conference music online.
It takes place today at the IULM the conference 'Music On Line' organized by Adincom . Interventions by Federico Kujawska of →
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07:06:01 Science + Fiction.
It opens today in various parts of Budapest 2001: Science + Fiction , an exhibition of media art with a rich →
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Napster 07:06:01: end + SDMI.
The adventure of Napster seems to come to an end. After yesterday's announcement today here is the last piece of →
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07:06:01 abnormal mode.
How unusual is a couple of days (today and tomorrow) use / abuse of the image at the social center of Florence →
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07:06:01 abnormal mode.
How unusual is a couple of days (today and tomorrow) use / abuse of the image at the social center of Florence →
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Seized 06:06:01 Eretico.com.
Yesterday morning four policemen armed police post Foggia searched the home of Latin Beatopio, aka the webmaster Eretico.com , iconoclastic website of →
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06.06.01 Presentation of 'The Cyborg'.
Tonight in Bologna at the SPA Ranzani, presentation of the new edition of 'The Cyborg', wise man artificial Antonio Caronia →
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06:06:01 Napster agreement with the majors.
After months of announcements, causes and negotiations Napster has signed an agreement with Warner Music and EMI to license →
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06/06/01 Poetry interactive.
At the Orsogril of Artillery, as part of the Venice Biennale, will take place today and tomorrow a happening of poetry that →
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05:06:01 Cd brand.
The Rock River Communications of Vermont with Websound is creating compilation of music used in commercials. The novelty is that this time →
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05/06/01 Broadcast record.
Glen Jones , a DJ of the American radio station WFMU? entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest →
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05:06:01 Britney Spears: video games and physics.
While it is not yet been fixed release date, a new video game for PlayStation 2, with Britney →
