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.
Features amphibious for this video that starts emerging from the primordial soup-far-advertising and continues moving steps inquiring about the dominated territories and, to be honest sometimes saturated, net art. The hybrid nature of the project →
It seems far away the time when video directors were perfect strangers, anonymous journeyman in the service of the big stars of music. Do clip was considered a fad, a diversion ennobled by authors such →
The accuracy of the calculations made by the software, in most cases, it is a matter of faith, as it is impossible to check with other methods the complex calculations that the machine is able →
The role of eBay in the digital culture has not yet been sufficiently described. The site now misnamed 'auction' has implemented not only an immense market capable of delivering the most unlikely objects, →
cd-rom – Printed Matter, Inc./Whitney – ISBN 0894390147
Drawing, as an artistic production process, has evolved its techniques constantly, changing according to the possibilities opened by new tools and the theoretical deviations that those →
The institutionalization of media art is a process still to come, but attempts to establish a chronology and a summing essential you make frequent, largely thanks to the parallel explosion of technological relevance in the →
Korsakow System is a database for the installation of interactive movies online and offline. Invented and developed by video artist Florian Thalhofer, takes its name from its first application [Korsakov Syndrom], interactive documentary on →
book – V2_Publishing – NAi Publishers – ISBN 9056623893
How far electronic art is representation, narration and aesthetic manipulation and how far is a new field of pure research which can exploit the integration →
In his research Florian Cramer has systematically researched the feasibility of code from a literary point of view, implicandone thus a unique reading and interpretation, and the resulting meta-level of signs leading to →
ICC Intercommunication Center – ISBN 4757170289
If the perception of nature throughout history has been conditioned by the state of the art of the production and communication technologies of the time (as evidenced by →
