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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24/04/01 Napster, new filters and Winamp.
Napster announced that it is to adopt a system of 'acoustic fingerprinting', which is unique recognition based on the →
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24/04/01 Diamonds bloody.
A site of art that contextualizes a complaint with strong interface from ecommerce could perhaps be described as hacktivism. Anyway ' Diamonds →
To deny the edulcorazioni of Chiti and Masi, an order of the Court of Salerno dating back to March 16, ordered the entry in the register to the site of the periodical press 'OltreSalerno' (http://www.oltresalerno.it, now →
It opens today Boston CyberArts Festival , which will continue between free lectures and exhibitions until May 6. Between the sections is devoted to an aesthetic art web and is available directly. Various approaches are adopted →
One of the most innovative electronics of the last decade, Autechre, are on tour in Italy. Two dates: Pietralata now at the center of Rome and tomorrow at the Links of Bologna.
– Friday in Turin at the Supermarket
. Ian Pooley (pictured) (tech-house) Frankfurt
– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. Scientists PM, Lazarus + DJ MC Fox (breakstep) UK
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Inaugurated today at the Vienna Kunsterlhaus Stealing Eyeballs an exhibition of ten artists and designers (Fork Unstable Media, Marius Watz (pictured), Richard Fenwick, Stefan Sagmeister, Spin, Imaginary Forces, Alexei Tylevich, Reed Kram, and Vectorama Reala) experimenting →
The president of AIIP (Italian Association of Internet Providers) Paolo Nuti (pictured) said that the measure approved "the definition of editorial product is so broad that even a web page created by a child could be →
Saturday, April 21 at the former railway factory in Turin, another event Fabricarte , in which art and electronic music for an entire day benefit from an abandoned industrial structure, allestendovi installations and projections (by Chaos →
Today at 21:00 Mascarella the Sala Bologna conference by Franco Minganti the University of Bologna on the theme 'The grain (sound) of the radio'. At the end will be a screening of the documentary 'Radioland Murders' →
Inaugurated today at the Primo Piano Gallery in Rome (Via Panisperna) 'Faults Normal', the latest work by Cesare Pietroiusti. The author (who has recently published 'Thoughts non-functional', in the image, for the publisher Morra-Naples) tried to →
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has complained to the local police precinct Chengkung fourteen students of the National University of Taiwan, accusing them of illegally copied and exchanged files to mp3. A raid →
Eye Syrup is a website that collects images and drawings designed to be placed as inmmagine background to the desktop operating system. The works are often carried out with the tools of design software and are →
Taking advantage of the dynamic html Playdamage is an art installation on the web that is developed through a sequence narativa of pages connected by links linear and intuitive interfaces. Each page is a room of →
