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.
Scott Wickberg, a nineteen year old student at Oklahoma State University is statao found guilty of illegal distribution of music files on the Internet, and sentenced to a term of two years probation, $ 5,000 fine →
According to Microsoft Network, producer of the event, would have been 9 million viewers of the webcast by Madonna, live from Brixton Academy Londran, in his first concert in England for 7 years. In fact it →
Begins for the U.S. Copyright Office today the hearing of representatives of associations of librarians and industry webcasting and digital music. The purpose of the hearing, to understand how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has managed →
53.4 million dollars is the amount of the loan obtained by Universal; 20.5 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 405 percent from last year, were the revenues; 6.1 million dollars losses; artists 100.000 647.700 approved and →
SoundExchange could be the first organization to redistribute royalties to artists and labels from the music played online. This was announced by the RIAA, specifying that for now the agreement is possible only for non-interactive webcasting, →
In spite of the agreements Bertelsmann-Napster, another agreement seems possible between EMI and Streamwaves.com . If the agreement will prove to be valid (the EMi has always been generous with ads), Streamwaves will offer a catalog →
While Madonna today at 22:00 gave his first Livecast exclusively on the Microsoft Network (press trumpeting 200 million users expected), Elton John and Paul McCartney have lined up on the front anti-Napster with a public campaign →
Hank Barry, CEO of Napster said that his company is monitoring the actions of the software fielded as Emusic to discourage users from downloading copyrighted music. The aim is wat to check whether you are configuring →
Hewlett Packard is the first by a German law firm forced to pay a tax because of its writers. The GEMA, the German SIAE, forced, after a good deal in fara computer giant to pay 3.60 →
A market study of English MORI, made on a sample of 1,630 people within five years has suggested the abandonment of the CD in favor of the files, especially by the younger audience. It should be →
