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.
it is easy to find sites or magazines that provide the solutions of video games. They often show the overall structure of the levels, or reveal secret passages indicate tricks →
The invisibility of thought has in common a striking parallelism with the invisibility of the programming code. The processing, conceptual or algorithmic they are, in fact, have the remarkable ability to produce tangible →
The 'point of contact' in telecommunication services, namely the feeling of being close to an entity real or imaginary, is a seemingly random factor, which in reality is revealed in the decisive involvement of the →
On October 27, in New York, was opened The Peoples' Portrait , a multimedia project conceived by the Chinese artist Zhang Ga and commissioned by the Festival Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) and →
The creation of fictitious identities, from digital anthropomorphic characteristics, is one of the great fascinations of the incorporeal world of data. The access to the creation of its 'alter ego' is a practice that →
The most popular games and innocent people may be subject to carefree dependence gratificativa, as thin and agonizing fear, depending on whether you simply different point of view from which they are →
The concept of software implemented in the real processes was collected and developed in different ways, but rarely with the actual ability to be incarnate structures and algorithms of the code to people and social processes. →
When the images are interpreted as data undergo a radical conceptual transformation, by an indivisible whole designed to be received in its entirety, to a set of data related to other possible relationships derived from the →
Inaugurated on September 17, the third edition of ArtBots , robotic exhibition of works in the broad sense, ie that share an independent component of production of artifacts, which this year exhibits a more accurate selection →
The site neoism.net , one of the few online experiments regarding the irreverent and provocative movement of the eighties, is now in version Wiki. Difficult to define, Neoism is, according to the Neoist tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, →
