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.
The Italian collective net.art radical 0100101110101101.ORG inaugurate today in Barcelona Artenlinea.net a series of weekly meetings with critics and artists of the new media.
Dibidus_Straight is the first project of Slobodan Miladinov and Dusan Pavlic, whose work owes much to their aptitude for typographical juxtaposition of characters and signs. The structure of the mixed style of the old socialist propaganda →
Opens today's edition of the annual festival of arts and new media Transmediale in Berlin. Subtitled DIY [do it yourself!], Has sections on: New Media Art in Belarus, workshops on hacking the gameboy and how to →
The video installation ' Drive 'Jordan Crandalls involves perception and conditioning of the human body through the' machine vision 'developed in the last century. But it also speaks of the development of film language and its →
At the Tribes Gallery in New York was closed recently Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications , an imposing exhibition curated by Cristine Wang brings together pioneers of net.art and outsiders. Many of →
Tomorrow in Mestre, Teatro Toniolo in a single overcrowded and busy day, will host the sixth edition of the festival of art and multimedia Opera Totale . Among the artists featured Joe Jackson, Augusto Grillo, Andi →
The collective of Etoy now goes on the attack, after fighting legal battles against Etoys inc., Large chain of distribution of toys, (see Neural 16 ) and having regained its dominance as a result of a →
Begins today in Bologna, at the Links , Hops! festival of visual arts and performating. It will last until Saturday, and includes four themed rooms, with shows almost simultaneously, including one called 'digital room', where artists →
Re.sound is a sound sculpture (also playable in some examples on the web) created by the artist Jody ELFF for the Moving Image Gallery in New York. Through a Mac G4 suitably concealed and Max, a →
Are not yet clear the reasons that led the artist Estonia Laur Tiidemann to commit suicide, setting himself on fire in front of the Estonian Academy of Arts in the city of Tallinn on 11 January. →
