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.
Today in Bologna for the series of meetings 'Digital_is_not_analog' at the Media Lab Salara (via Don Minzoni 18), 'Hacktivism, experiences and activities of independent political communication on the Internet' with Ricardo Dominguez, the Electronic Disturbance Theatre →
Short Stories narrative project is a collective effort involving 26 artists with many stories to 'remix'. Physically accessible at the Steam Factory in Milan, and developed by UnDo.Net, winds through online bilingual interface that leads to →
Roman Minaev is the author of Trashconnection a site of net.art that starts from the definition of trash online, which is information unnecessary or wasteful (perloppiù advertising banners and logos) that fill the visual space. Detournandoli →
It opens today at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam ' <life> hybrid forms ', an exhibition on new media produced in Australia. Emerge from the work exposed the dark confessions, the natural hybrids and →
It is held today in New York the fourth International Browserday competition for students and young designers that offer solutions to 'redesign' in some way the network interface. Each of them has three minutes →
It will be broadcast tonight at 19:00, Ballettikka Internettikka – Part One: net.ballet . A series of images updated every twenty seconds seconds from a webcam resume the performance in which Igor Stromajer will interpret the →
' E-naissance: new configurations of mind, body and space ' is an important conference which begins today in Turin at the Conference Hall of the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. Organized by →
Nico Westerdale as noted on screens of monitors office for fingerprints, often imprinted as a result of proposed changes to what is shown, made by colleagues or superiors. For this he developed his art work collaboratively →
Today at 21:00, in Barbary 4 in Bologna, introductory seminar on the semiotics of the connective-immersive environments intotolato 'The DAMS after'. In a statement released by Franco Berardi (pictured) is a summary of what will be →
It is being held in Sheffield, until Sunday Lovebytes , festival of computer based art and media. Combining web art (Jodi, Adaweb, Farmers Manual, Audiorom, Kunstradio, Radioqualia …) and new electronics (Autechre, Oval, Taylor Deupree, Kim →
