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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31.12.01 [e-body2.0]
[E-body2.0] is the natural evolution of [e-body] , a work of net.art of '97 made by the Swiss Fabric. A reality in VRML →
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28.12.01 Clip.fm, icons narrative for mobile phones.
The need to extend the communication mode on mobile phones and the natural evolution to which they are →
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28.12.01 'You are Late', Nosferatu, in pixels.
Taken from his performance 'Muscle and Blood Plan', ' You are Late 'is a work in shockwave defined →
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27/12/01 My digital cinema.
Keyframe.org is one of the few sites dedicated to the discussion of digital cinema and all'approfodimento lived from the inside out →
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27.12.01 Auctions of net art and conceptual art.
ConceptBid is one of the first independent sites that tries to take money from conceptual works and →
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27/12/01 Last updated Sept 11, 2001.
Among the conceptual works dedicated to the September 11 tragedy, ' Last updated Sept 11 2001 'by Ivan Pope →
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21:12:01 Not in my number in Rome.
Tonight at Forte Prenestino of Rome, Avananet presents 'Not in my number', a celebration of the Feast of →
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21:12:01 Blinkenlights, ascii art with palaces.
Just as Martin Creed won the Turner Prize of 20,000 English pounds for a work consisting of an empty →
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20:12:01 Text.ure, net art literature (2).
Text.ure is a work of net art that combines literature, abstract visualization and interaction with the user in an →
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20/12/01 Speaker's Corner, net art literature (1).
The simple ideas sometimes prove to be brilliant. One of the most interesting interfaces of the Internet to →
