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.
Minimal Games was a workshop open to all where you learned how to build simple games. A popular among children, offered material available to assemble and program interaction, highlighting how few buttons and lights →
Mary Flanagan , author of the book Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, co-director of Rapunsel, a project designed to teach programming to girls, and Andrew Gerngross, writer and creator of video games, have collaborated to study →
ERR OR ¬ is the attempt to establish a public archive of the errors of digital media. The Spanish collective joystick, which has carried out the project (along with Juanjo Fernandez), invites us to send →
As for the spatial dimension of the game is changing our sense of space is hard to say. In reality, however, the mediation of visual surveillance cameras in turn creates an additional dimension of perception, →
World War II: a soldier polygonal weapon a hand grenade and drops it at his feet. His companions run away screaming but he remains stationary until the inevitable explosion. Detachment. A metropolis of the →
Already the artistic avant-garde of the early twentieth century attempted, in reference to science, what we now attempt an architect and a Japanese artist with a technological device much richer: represent € →
The annual awards Vida, an art competition and artificial intelligence sponsored by the Spanish Fundación Telefonica, arrives this year to the seventh edition . Keeping the pattern of the previous ones (such as 4.0 →
The visual compositions made with artificial intelligence techniques, albeit with some exceptions, have been linked to an aesthetic 'scientific', reflecting phenomena complying with the rules in some way 'natural', with precise canons of overlap, sometimes →
The granularity of the images in which ASCII characters are used in place of the pixels has numerous inherent characteristics. Has a retro 'graphics of the first attempts simulated the first electronic computers ( RTTY-art →
Imagine you find yourself in the narrow streets of Montmartre, in front of you there is no longer any trace of the traditional (and somewhat petulant) portraitists. Their place was taken by a series of →
