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.
53.4 million dollars is the amount of the loan obtained by Universal; 20.5 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 405 percent from last year, were the revenues; 6.1 million dollars losses; artists 100.000 647.700 approved and →
In spite of the agreements Bertelsmann-Napster, another agreement seems possible between EMI and Streamwaves.com . If the agreement will prove to be valid (the EMi has always been generous with ads), Streamwaves will offer a catalog →
While Madonna today at 22:00 gave his first Livecast exclusively on the Microsoft Network (press trumpeting 200 million users expected), Elton John and Paul McCartney have lined up on the front anti-Napster with a public campaign →
Tom Kemp has developed Analysis , a work of art through his handheld computer, the ubiquitous Palm. Using the TealPaint, a software design, as you can imagine quite limited, the artist created a thousand little abstract →
Hewlett Packard is the first by a German law firm forced to pay a tax because of its writers. The GEMA, the German SIAE, forced, after a good deal in fara computer giant to pay 3.60 →
Hank Barry, CEO of Napster said that his company is monitoring the actions of the software fielded as Emusic to discourage users from downloading copyrighted music. The aim is wat to check whether you are configuring →
Numerous statements gathered by Peacelink bode plots for nothing sympathetic towards the liberal heads online. Franco Abruzzo, president of the Journalists of Lombardy, in recent days has met with the Minister of Justice Piero Fassino, together →
Sunday, November 26, 2000 at 15:00 in Milan (Via Niccolini 36 ang. Fioravanti via the Bulk storage) the LOA hacklab organizes a seminar entitled 'The Encryption and its instruments'.
The ' International Telecommunication Union adopted a worldwide standard for broadcasting digital sound. It is based on the same frequency bands, and should be considered that there are potential 2.5 billion radio receivers in the world, →
A market study of English MORI, made on a sample of 1,630 people within five years has suggested the abandonment of the CD in favor of the files, especially by the younger audience. It should be →
Inaugurated today by Diary Recording the UK tour Scanner (see Neural 14), this time with Will Tonne, researcher of connections between images and sounds already collaborator Springheel Pole and Jack. The paper aims to involve the →
Opens today in Bologna, until December 3, the first edition of Netmage , an international festival of innovative images in the media, art and communication organized by Linkproject. The program is articulated in a hundred audiovisual →
A couple of engineers Emusic . com claim to have developed software that tracks the activities of Napster, which the leaders of the latter have always declared as impossible. After just three weeks of work, and →
Ozzy Osborne, Pantera and Godsmack are suing the MCY.com for broadcasting in a pay-per-view special sull'Ozzyfest quality intended by the web. In the past MCY.com has already passed webcast of Backstreet Boys, Paul McCartney and Michael →
