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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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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The Library of Missing Datasets 2.0,  data reincarnation

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“We cannot talk about responsible data without talking about the moment when data becomes data”. This is the starting point of the research by Mimi Onuoha, an artist who explores the processes by which people are measured, abstracted, represented and →

datanew media art 8 Apr 2019

(edited by) Valérie Perrin – Documents / Collecting Digital Art – Volume 2 – 2007-2018

documents_collectingdigitalart

Presses du Reel, ISBN-13: 978-2378960193, French, English, 304 pages, 2018, France

The French ‘Espace multimédia Gantner’ is one of the unsung heroic institutions caring about digital art. Their collection of both digital artworks and →

bookdigital art 5 Apr 2019

Trondheim Voices + Asle Karstad – Rooms & Rituals

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CD – Grappa

A small wireless box, easy to wear, that allows every singer-performer to act with no obstacles in the stage space and be able to process in real time the effects and the loops; this is the idea →

acoustic/digitalaudio artexperimental 3 Apr 2019

La liberté guidant le peuple 2019, bitcoin rebus

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In front of 154/156 rue d’Aubervilliers in Paris, the artist Pascal Boyart has created a mural that represents a reinterpretation of the famous painting by Delacroix “La liberté guidant le peuple”. The architecture of the image faithfully reflects the original →

hacktivismnew media artstreet art 1 Apr 2019

Annet Dekker – Collecting and Conserving Net Art: Moving beyond Conventional Methods

collectingand-conservingnetart

Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0815382416, English, 202 pages, 2018, UK

Annet Dekker is one of the major experts in the conservation of digital artworks, who in the recent years has produced a substantial body of work defining →

booknet art 29 Mar 2019

Staalplaat SoundSystem – Installations

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LP – Staalplaat

This album is a precious release, a document of the historical installations of the Staalplaat SoundSystem, a sound artists’ collective whose main members are Carlo Crovato, Radboud Mens, Jens Alexander Ewald and Geert-Jan Hobijn. The selected projects →

audio artexperimental 27 Mar 2019

Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people

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The tension of sound memories can be formidable when associated with events with dramatic political meaning. They stay in the collective memory, and can resurge if allowed to. Kinmen Island, is the closest Taiwanese island to mainland China (less than →

audio artemusic 25 Mar 2019

Fenwick McKelvey – Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed

internetdaemons

University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 13:978-1517901547, English, 336 pages, 2018, USA

The need to understand the internal mechanisms of the Internet has become as important as the need to understand TV as a system →

booknet 22 Mar 2019

Various Artists – Donostia Noise

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CD + book – Audiolab

Harkaitz Cano, Jose Luis Espejo, Yannick Dauby, Xabier Erkizia, Mikel R. Nieto, Luca Rullo, Alex Mendizabal and Asier Gogortza are the sound artists who summarized the work of two seminars which happened in 2008 and →

experimentalfield recordings 20 Mar 2019

Putting the Pieces Back Together Again, sorting out complexity

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Putting the Pieces Back Together Again is another spectacular complex system built by Ralf Baecker to let us meditate “on self-organisation and scientific methodology”. It consists of 1250 stepper motors arranged in a large square grid. Each motor has a →

new media art 18 Mar 2019

(edited by) Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder – Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs

materializing-memories

Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1501333231, English, 288 pages, 2018, UK

Our visual memory has been under the public lens of science since neurology became a debated topic in popular media. Personal memory, and its importance for our →

bookmediatheory 15 Mar 2019

The Vegetable Orchestra – Green Album

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CD – Transacoustic Research

Imagine for a moment that every musician, before the performance, has also to make their own instrument. This is exactly what happens to the members of The Vegetable Orchestra, an experimental and free form combo that, →

audio artexperimental 13 Mar 2019

Spiralalala, falling sounds in a spiral

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The transformative power of audio technologies can have a powerful impact when applied to acoustic spaces, especially when it gives a room imagined elements. This seems the case for “Spiralalala” by Warsaw’s panGenerator. They modified the iconic spiral staircase of →

audio artemusicnew media art 11 Mar 2019

(edited by) Günther Friesinger, Evelyn Van Hulzen – Juliana Herrero, REM 1:1: A printed piece of time capsules and more with invited voices and voice over

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edition mono/monochrom, ISBN-13: 978-3902796578, English, German, 96 pages, 2017, Austrian

This is a monograph about the work of the Argentinian-Austrian artist Juliana Herrero. She uses sound as a revelatory medium, assembling installations which build →

booknew media art 8 Mar 2019

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