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.
Riffage.com , one of the first labels online, has closed its doors. Launched in July 1999, he soon acquired an important role in the landscape of sites that allow you to download their songs and see →
EMusic , the most powerful online label, has concluded an agreement with the National Music Publishers Association. to integrate streaming services to offer to its users. Even mp3.com had tried, and gotten, but the quotes of →
Tower Records , a chain of superstores on the disc, with 115 stores in the U.S. and 72 in the rest of the world, is about to inaugurate the new service in partnership with Instant Listening →
– Saturday in Milan to Pergolatribe (via della Pergola 5 A) Digital + Total Science (UK)
– Saturday in Turin at the supermarket (Viale Madonna di Campagna 1), Claudio Coccoluto
After the stop of May and the mega fine of 53.4 million dollars established in November, reopen the service my.mp3.com. Two versions are available a free membership that allows you to store 25 CDs and a →
The ThinDisc Media has produced a prototype called five times thinner than those in common use, which would present the advantage of well costarne half. To produce them there voranno suitable machinery, while for users just →
The authorized bootleg of a first tranche of U.S. tour in 2000, Pearl Jam will go on sale from the end of February in stores, but already from the previous month on the band's website at →
That the system was still immature ventie online was known. The Americans Fisher, one of the first bands to be signed to Universal / Farmclub.com for its popularity on the Internet, are failing in the first →
Today U2 will hold a one-hour exclusive concert at Irving Plaza in Manhattan, New York. Places are limited to 1000 and can be accessed by invitation only. Tickets are distributed through various combinations through the website →
The iQradio is a company that collects information about the types of music broadcast by American radio stations and provides it via messages to mobile phones, allowing its users to listen to the favorite type of →
