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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05/17/01 Subtle Technologies.
Starts today in Toronto (Canada), the fourth edition of Subtle Technologies , a conference devoted to the intersections between science and art. →
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17:05:01 Tecnoarte in Perugia.
It opens today in Perugia, Palazzo Gallenga ' Tecnoarte ', a two-day conferences and seminars on the art electronics, focused on →
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16:05:01 He died Douglas Adams.
The unforgettable author of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) died yesterday at the age →
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16:05:01 Conversations artificial.
The new installation of Ken Feingold at Postmasters Gallery in New York? literally able to converse with the user. Called ' If →
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15:05:01 collaborative drawings.
'Beauty and chaos through time and space' is the name of the interesting installation by Eric Deis, who prepared an amazing tool →
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11:05:01 Fake headlines self-generated.
Daniel Young is the American resposabile of NewZoid , a work of internet art that continuously generates and fully automatically, false →
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10:05:01 Instant.boo.
Today at the Studio Theatre will take place Scandicci 'Instant.boo', an evening dedicated to 'mediamixing', ie the assembly of live audio-visual materials and →
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09:05:01 Infonoise in Belgrade.
Infonoise is a sophisticated installation made at the Student Center in Belgrade, which today enjoy a stream to the Internet webbar →
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07:05:01 Jonctions, the art of code.
It is being held in Brussels, Jonctions, a festival of new media art that this year dedicated to the →
It is at the Tate Britain in London a symposium, with its exhibition entitled ' Art and Money Online 'that seeks to investigate the links between capitalism and digital art. Existing installations of: Black Shoals Stock →
