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.
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27.03.03 Version 3, Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse.
After last year’s edition, dedicated, with a fair amount of forethought, to the ‘digital commons’, the digital art festival named ‘Version →
Among the muffled explosions reported in the news and the use of synthetic animation to describe the conflict in Iraq, is shaping a kind of habit and visual recognition of war news. W4R Antonio Dominguez, accelerates →
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26.03.03 CyberZoo, simulated virii exhibition.
Computer virii are an extreme form of communication, infused with the appeal of the unrestrained reproduction normally associated with the organic universe. →
Hacking video is a short film dating back to '99 by Manuel Saiz, a fictional documentary, in which an activist of video art is a self-proclaimed 'video hacker', and manipulates movies rented in a video shop, →
Either Side of an Empty Room is a project of Peter Horvath who has attempted to interpret the interface and the grammar of a web video production. The sequences autobiographical, in fact, are duplicated in different →
Web_capture is a project of digital video screens mounted data taken from the web and e-mail / spam in a very rapid sequence. Powered by Juanjo Fernández, the project seeks to contextualize the details of the →
Hektor is a project of Lehni and Uli Franke, who after four years of software programming have decided to return to interact with concrete tools interfacing to the precious Computing Machinery. The result was this robot →
Inaugurated on March 20 in Sheffield on Lovebytes, International Festival of Digital Art . After the editions of 2001 and 2002 , this seems to be the richest ever realized effectively combining digital arts and electronic →
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21.03.03 adonnaM.mp3, Filesharing, the Hidden Revolution in the Internet.
Opening on March 20 at the Museum fŸr Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, ‘adonnaM.mp3 – File Sharing, the Hidden →
Premiered at ' Evolution Festival Leeds QQQ is a good example of video games as art thought of as performance. Powered by Tom Betts, project manager Nullpointer, is based on the Quake engine multi-user, putting it →
