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.
With a sad celebration of the collective of electronic artists Etoy has 'celebrated' the end of Etoys, the American giant toy that had tried to sopprimergli dominion, now crushed by 274 billion dollars in debt. The →
13:00 A live webcast of Keith Armstrong, who will mix live pre-recorded material of a character (Ling Change) through breathtaking animation, broadcast from England, with a stream of data coming live from Australia that shows the →
It is planned for the third round today with Metabolics , a series of events in art, culture and politics that take place at Muffathalle of Monaco of Bavaria. Today's event focuses on the game viewed →
This evening at 20:00 there will be a webcast of the performance of sound art collaborative effort between the organization and the Anglo-Australian Radioqualia theater De Waag in Amsterdam. The artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De →
Today, at 18:00, at the Triennale of Milan, the Parisian Lucy Orta presents his work on relational aesthetics, which relate to the individual's struggle for survival in adverse conditions. Celebrated its 'clothes haven' and the performance →
The theme of the \ \ international \ media \ art award 2001 Ctrl space, the vigiland society . Organized by the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the competition will award among others, →
On the same route of those who attempt to extract a few souls from the data in constant motion on network cables, Amy Alexander and Peter Traub have scheduled a site that converts the results of →
Inaugurated yesterday the new public space ' Steam Factory 'in via Procaccini 2 in Milan, home to' The Factory of the imagination ', a film festival and new technologies. Today from 14:00 screenings and workshops, with →
Registration is now open for the awards for the next edition of Ars Electronica. The category has been divided into Net Vision (visionary works) and Excellence (state of the art), while still Interactive Art, Computer Animations →
Tonight at 21:00 another webcast dell'iperattivo German duo Multimedia Station Rose that between one session and the other will entertain a chat live from New York with Achim Szepanski and Jon Berry, the Force Inc. label →
