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.
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 →
The first 'jukebox' for Linux is powered by MusicMatch . The beta, version 1.0, has been developed by the software house, which also produces versions for Win and Mac due to the latest estimates of the →
Eight live tracks of Eagles, taken from the box Selected Works 1972-1999, made by Elektra , have been cleared by their respective retailers on the web, where they had made freely available to download. This, according →
It's online the new issue of @ Karenin. experimental poetry in it phatic function , electronic magazine directed by Catherine Davino, interviews with Orlan, Mario Costa, Nando Vitale, Richard Piegza, Massimo Mori and the program Poevisioni →
The EMI has signed an agreement with the American Streamwaves, a provider of music for subscriptions, which works on the jukebox model, and with the British DX3 and On Demand Distribution Ltd to strengthen its distribution →
Among the techniques of biometrics (ie measurement of the physical characteristics, which are often unique to each), the facial thermograms are particularly promising for the recognition of a person for security purposes. They consist of images →
According to Sim Wong Hoo, chairman of Creative , the mp3 player market will soon rosy prospects with ten times the sales of the world-famous Sound Blaster audio cards. In ten years the number of Sound →
With the slogan of downloads to copy – Upload an idea Copydown is being heralded as the most serious initiative in Italy in counter attempts at hegemony of the contents in place by large publishing groups. →
'The day of non-consumption' is an idea of the militants' Adbusters Media Foundation that imitating the celebratory spirit of the official celebrations, once again hurl the stone in the pond building awareness of the market and →
The Universal was the last to withdraw the complaint against mp3.com for copyright infringement. The claim has been granted in total 53.4 million dollars (much less than the 167.5 million dollars at the time decided by →
Pass It Along is the latest provocation by Chumbawamba. The song downloaded from their official website contains samples unauthorized Metallica, Eminem, Dr. Dre, the Beatles, Madonna, Noam Chomsky and Jello Biafra, among others. Made in collaboration →
