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.
Exemplary action has been taken by the brave activists of the LOA just before Christmas. At the cry of NOCOPY has applied the now historic anti-SIAE stamp on the material present in the megastore around the →
The loss of spatial references, especially when you're in front of a screen that lights reflected images from around the world is the theme dealt by Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer and Rony Vissers. The three Belgian →
The most frequent image of cyberspace is certainly that in 3D. Search Space of Mike Lyda consists in a series of virtual spaces in VRML that represent the results of a search engine in 3D. Each →
A slight makeup accompanies version 2.0 Beta8 of Napster for Windows . Were added a few features, including the ability to specify keywords to exclude in the search, using the sign '-', and the ability to →
Second an online magazine English the latest and most sensational frontier of copy protection is going to be approved within a couple of months in the general silence. The Technical Committee dell'NCTIS, an organization for standards, →
– Friday in Rome at the Piper
. Nicola Conte
– Friday in Turin at the Supermarket (avenue madonna country 1)
. Lost in Space (1 & Richard Giorgio Valletta →
BayTSP , a company of securitye copyright, achieved BaySpiderSM, yet another application that hopes to become the goose that lays the golden eggs, that is the standard of the majors to track down mp3,. wav music →
From December 27 to 29, in Berlin, will take place, as every year, the Chaos Communication Congress . This year are expected, in addition to always affolate conferences, workshops and seminars, the fourth German championship Lockpicking, →
Do not end the trouble for my.mp3.com. After the mega fines paid to the industry of the disc, this time it is to Emusic.com , label independent online portal to sue Michael Robertson. Emusic in fact →
According to research conducted by Reid Ipson 47 percent of people between 12 and 24 who use the Internet have downloaded at least one music track last month. 90 percent of them plan to go back →
The German intelligence service (but as trade secrets, as the news has already been around the world) have asked the Bertelsmann over Napster to prevent the exchange of songs by bands of the extreme right. In →
New number (the 3:4) of the BeeHive Hypertext a 'Hypermedia Literary Journal' that public works accessible through the web of hypertext creative writing. In summary work of Gregory Ulmer / Talan Memmott (with a spectacular introduction →
The Digidesign, the producer of the Pro Tools, will be honored with a Technical Grammy for the degree of innovation brought to the world of music production. The first model of Pro Tools dates back to →
The Optical Storage Technology Assocation (OSTA) has announced a specific compatibility, called Multiplay ensuring for all Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) and Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) discs can be played on CD players and DVD adhere to →
