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.
With a sad celebration of the collective of electronic artists Etoy has 'celebrated' the end of Etoys, the American giant toy that had tried to sopprimergli dominion, now crushed by 274 billion dollars in debt. The →
Seven lines of code in Perl, 526 characters called 'qrpff', developed by two MIT students wily Student Information Processing Board (Keith Winstein, 19 years in the photo, and Marc Horowitz) are the fastest so far created →
13:00 A live webcast of Keith Armstrong, who will mix live pre-recorded material of a character (Ling Change) through breathtaking animation, broadcast from England, with a stream of data coming live from Australia that shows the →
In the (apparent) contrast, tonight will be aired in the U.S. the first spot of Apple 's efforts to demonstrate how easy it is with the Mac take your favorite tracks from your CD collection and →
This evening at 20:00 there will be a webcast of the performance of sound art collaborative effort between the organization and the Anglo-Australian Radioqualia theater De Waag in Amsterdam. The artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De →
The Future of Music Coalition (organizer eponymous summit ), despite having been the enemy of completely free version of Napster, now clamoring to be promoted its paid version that could promote in a remarkable, especially artists. →
It is planned for the third round today with Metabolics , a series of events in art, culture and politics that take place at Muffathalle of Monaco of Bavaria. Today's event focuses on the game viewed →
They share the initiatives of the LOA in Milan, with an intense program that provides every day of the week a different course every Sunday and a special seminar. Centered on Unix, Linux, hardware, C, PERL →
Here it is finally the long-awaited judgment. As an episode of Beutiful, does not solve anything, but only opens new narrative strands. The injunction in fact says that every time the recording industry reports a song →
With good timing mp3.com has given its support to New.net, the start-up that is fighting the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the new authority for the rules of the Internet). The common goal →
The Tactex is a tissue sensitive to the touch that can be used to control the sound devices most disparate. Originally developed by the Canadian Space Agency, is already tested for the mixer controls or can →
While the sound of press releases multiply the vultures hoping to get a slice of heritage in danger of Napster, the parent continues to play its role in the great comedy music network. On Sunday night →
The cry of greek music industry associations seem to have much of an inconsistency with the rest of the market. According to a study by the Consumer Electronics Association , last year in the U.S. there →
A new system of filters is another rabbit pulled out of the hat of the lawyers of Napster. Based on the names, which is saying something, would automatically block users who exchange files protected by copyright, →
