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.
In the dystopian play “The Ventriloquists’ School” by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a ‘free man’ falls into a deserted street and, panicked, takes refuge in a non-place populated by slaves and masters where puppets and manoeuvres live under the control of the →
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, ISBN 3936711305
Those who learned about Cornelia Sollfrank thanks to the latest release of her famous net.art generator, have seen only the tip of the iceberg. The artist, hacker →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262134241
The necessary contributions by female artists in the creation of media art hasn’t yet received the contexualization and place in history they deserve. The realization of artifacts which can →
The creation of entities and identities in the parallel universe of cyberspace, grafted on our everyday life, is one of the most interesting and important research topics for achieving a concrete understanding of the contemporary world. →
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06.02.03 Maid in Cyberspace festival, cyberfeminist art.
From February 4th to 8th, in Montreal (Canada), will be held the sixth edition of the Maid In Cyberspace Festival, →
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24.06.02 Transcodeur Express, cyberfeminism art.
Transmitted by the Franco-German channel Arte in late April, Neue Kraft, Neues Werk (Transcodeur Express) is a documentary by Ninon →
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03:05:02 Mythic Hybrid, cyberfeminism Indian art.
' Mythic Hybrid 'is the new net art work of Prema Murthy, already the author of Bindigirl (see Bindigirl, →
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22:01:02 Affective Encounters: acts of Cyberfeminist technology.
Cyberfeminism has developed a level of consciousness and considerable international analysis, but unfortunately still not have permeated both →
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13:12:01 Very Cyberfeminist International.
Organized by the collective Old Boys Network, begins today at the Lichtmesz-Kino in Hamburg (Germany) ' Very Cyberfeminist International ', a →
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07:12:01 Technichs of cyberfeminism.
Technichs of cyberfeminism is a series of meetings for three days enliven the Thealit of Bremen (Germany) several notes asking members →
