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 imaginative power of the word and its intense evocative capacity are still trumps digital artists, that whenever they can worthily compete with these elements contribute to the construction of meaning independent of machines. p0es1s, digital →
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13.02.04 PublicDesktop, desktop as communication tool.
Exploiting the interface for social ends is one of the biggest opportunities for independent artists and developers, as it makes possible →
book – Autonomedia – ISBN 1570271399
‘Behind the Blip’ addresses the need of a critical and pragmatic analysis of that complex and fleeting entity called ‘software’. The constant presence of interpretative interfaces for any →
Entitled ' Fly Utopia! ' the annual edition of transmediale takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from January 31 to February 4. Dedicated to utopia and its contradictory contemporary incarnations, is →
book – The Banff Centre Press – ISBN 092015994X
A long personal journey through the media mutation of the end of the Seventies to the dawn of the new millennium, describing a natural visionary →
cd+ – Crónica
Tuning sounds and visuals by fingering a touchpad and a keyboard is an art as complex as playing music and projecting a video. Moreover, including sounds and visuals in a normal compact disc →
Scioltesi the promises of cheap special effects, artificial intelligence is used in art projects with good reason, with the emphasis on the autonomy of the code and its ability to effectively simulate life processes. A witness →
In the seventies, the mathematician John Horton Conway devised a software that showed how very complex phenomena such as the equilibrium of ecosystems could be described by simple concatenations of events. The game →
It takes place these days in Bologna Netmage 04 , an international festival that promotes the meeting between visual culture and electronic music in various facets. The artists, in fact, come from the latter area perloppiù →
Is in progress at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco Bang the Machine: Computer Gaming Art and Artifacts , an exhibition that confirms the growing interest in the world of art in →
