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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19:07:01 Loveweek broadcast from Berlin.
In the week leading to the Loveparade three of the most active clubs in Berlin (Tresor, Globus and WMF) organized →
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07/19/01 Karaoke in rent.
The Eatsleepmusic launched the Karaoke Jukebox Plus , the first Karaoke system for PC that allows you to 'rent' the stream →
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18:07:01 The so-called anti-copy go into distortion.
The first audio CD that can not be copied from one computer products, according to the system SafeAudio →
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18:07:01 Files. Nap.
In the transformation from an instrument of free trade business platform 'safe', Napster has finally decided that its Protected files can not →
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FBI arrests 18:07:01 participant DefCon.
The day after the close of Def Con (see Def Con 9 ) the FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov, the cryptanalyst →
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17:07:01 The shape of the sound.
What can be the shape of the sound? The Shape of Song is an application written in Java, created →
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17:07:01 disorders for hearing aids.
Several of the 28 million Americans, including most part young students, who suffer from auditory experience now daily interference of →
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17:07:01 Baby net.radio Bowie.
'Kick Out the Jammies' is the new radio channel dedicated to kids on the website bowie.net. The rockstar, now in its 50s, has created a channel →
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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 →
