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.
book – Indipendent Curators International – ISBN 0916365719
The experiments on the relationships between sound and images have their roots in the analogue Seventies, and many of those ideas are →
Life and Thought, ISBN 8834319710 Result of a thesis, this study takes on the story of äda'web object in one of the first attempts, specifically New York, to establish a sustainable model (also →
book – Actar – ISBN 8495951134
In its double role as ‘genre’ and ‘tool’, electronic music has pervaded the music culture for the last fifteen years. Fulfilling the ambitions to work ‘directly’ on the →
The National Publishing House "Yantarny Skaz", ISBN 5740608537 In the build up to its own autonomy Bio Art (a term defined by Jens Hauser, curator of the seminal exhibition 'L'Art Biotech' as a →
Diabasis, ISBN 8881032481 Building the legal tools with which to defend a different idea of copyright is one of the highest priority to make tangible and available technological changes over recent years. A →
, ISBN 3775716599 The hybrid as a symbol of evolutionary change has been hired as the main theme of Ars Electronica 2005 divided into the sections 'cultures', 'politics', 'ecologies' and 'creatures'. Hybridization is a →
Jovis / Edition Bauhaus, ISBN 3936314918 The passage in large urban centers to service-oriented economy is a trend observed since the seventies, but that exploded all the way through to today's city described →
Continuum, ISBN 0826416152 The genealogy of contemporary music unfolds over several essential distant in time and in the cultural areas. Only now, in the time information in the form of networks, you draw →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262033283
The ‘media activism’ was born well before the telematic networks and it has manipulated the media, first the electric and then the electronic one, with the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262072602 The concept of 'Open Source', though often made ambiguous and cannibalized by the industry itself which undermines the principles of savage exploitation, is one of →
