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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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Pulsar Kite, aeolian instrument for computer music

Pulsar-Kite

Aeolian instruments create an atmosphere that can be eerie, entrancing or foreboding, giving wind currents a resonant voice. Wind harps that appeared to be played by invisible spirits created the first ambient music. Singing kites have carried whistles and flutes →

audio artemusicsoftware 17 Feb 2016

Bureau d’Etudes – An Atlas of Agenda’s: Mapping the Power, Mapping the Commons

an-atlas-of-agendas

Onomatopee, ISBN-13: 978-9491677229, English,, 270 pages, 2014, The Netherlands

Bureau d’Etudes’ maps have been recognised not only as fascinating artworks, but also as mirrors of power systems, and have been unveiled through a clever and self-aware use of networks. This →

bookhacktivismvisual 15 Feb 2016

VVAA – Sound Art China | Revolutions Per Minute

CHINA

2CD – Post Concrete

Revolutions Per Minute is a double CD published under the label Concrete Post. It is a near exhaustive survey on Chinese Sound Art drawn from the exhibition at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. This exhibition →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 12 Feb 2016

Pinhole Cinema, man and the static camera

Pinhole-Cinema

What if we could see the world as through a camera obscura? We could certainly have a different visual perspective on it and therefore a different perception of space. “Pinhole Cinema” by the Japanese Fuwarilab offers a cheap method to →

new media art 10 Feb 2016

Markus Krajewski – World Projects: Global Information before World War I

world-projects

University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-0816695935, English, 328 pages, 2014, USA

When did “globalisation” truly start? Digging through history it would be easy to go back a few decades, as the internet was starting to become so pervasive. But exactly →

bookhacktivism 8 Feb 2016

Drumcorps – Falling Forward

Drumcorps

CD – Ad Noiseam

Coming out nine years after Grist (Ad Noiseam adn70, 2006), an album that gave rise to intense live shows and built a considerable fanbase for Drumcorps, Falling Forward does not disappoint, even if after all this →

emusicexperimentalnoise 5 Feb 2016

Contingent Cartographies, Fluid Identities, breaking a visual spell

Contingent-Cartographies

Google Street View has slowly grown through the years towards its ambitious goal to become the “Eye of God” available on any connected screen. The pure illusion to see (and so for our primary senses to be) everywhere, accessing any →

new media art 3 Feb 2016

edited by Annie Abrahams, Helen Varley Jamieson – CyPosium, the book

cyposium

Link Editions/La Panacée, ISBN-13: 978-1291988925, English, 184 pages, 2014, Italy

We can count on printed books almost indefinitely – a specific quality of the printed page to be contrasted with the instability of the online world. This book is edited →

booknew media artperformance 1 Feb 2016

Mécaniques Discursives, fictional projected machines

MecaniquesDiscursives

The seamless integration between the real and the virtual is a still an unaccomplished goal: we can usually still distinguish artificial elements from real ones with ease. But when projections are involved the border between real and fictional becomes less →

new media art 29 Jan 2016

Richard Garet – 60′ Cassette

RichardGarett_Cassette

Cassette – Helen Scarsdale Agency

Decidedly rough electroacoustic sequences are articulated by Richard Garet in 60′ Cassette, a release that The Helen Scarsdale Agency – a label representing the likes of Jim Haynes, Coelacanth, Stilluppsteypa and Sigtryggur Berg – →

acoustic/digitalaudio artexperimental 27 Jan 2016

edited by Kathy High, Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez – The Emergence of Video Processing Tools

The-Emergence-of-Video-Processing-Tools

Intellect Ltd, ISBN-13: 978-1841506630, English, 442 pages, 2014, UK

Video artists from the heroic years (mainly sixties and seventies) would nowadays be rightfully considered “makers.” Their various forms of “hacking” with analogue video apparatuses of all kinds, include bric-a-brac solutions, →

bookhackingnew media artsoftwarevisual 25 Jan 2016

moDernisT, confronting with digital losses

modernist

What do we lose with the universal adoption of digital as a sub-medium technology? If the vast majority of pictures we see are in (even slightly) lossy jpg and the absolute majority of music we hear is in (even slightly) →

emusicnew media artsound 22 Jan 2016

VVAA – Nordic Sound Art – Nordic Sound Art

VVAA_NordicSoundArt

LP – Nordic Sound Art / Kuno

The exhibition catalog for the Nordic Sound Art graduate show 2015 – supported by Kuno Publication Fund – is presented with a vinyl release representative of the work completed during the high-level sound →

audio artexperimentalfield recordingsglitch'n'cuts 20 Jan 2016

edited by Anthony Downey –­ Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

uncommon-grounds

I. B. Tauris, ISBN-13: 978-1784530358, English, 360 pages, 2014, UK

This anthology of texts finally fills one of the gaps in the (mostly western-oriented) analysis of artistic, social and political media practices. It took two years to finish, stemming from →

bookhacktivismnew media art 18 Jan 2016

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