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 sound that has always been 'immaterial' (well before the digital data) has always been fascinated by our perceptual apparatus for its elusive 'presence'. The sonic presence, in fact, that organically manifests itself →
If certain sounds have entered the collective imagination, it is thanks to this that manage to evoke. The Big Ben, for example, is not only the city of London, but the memory of →
is in times of rapid and radical change that ideas emerge that are able to interconnect past, present and future in a single synthesis, together with striking and paradoxical. The 'Buddha Machine Soundbox' could →
The sound waves are excellently transmitted through the air, and in this way we generally perceive it and judge the quality and production characteristics of the source. But trying to carry out the transmission through →
The recovery of sound data and their connection with visual data related to a place, involves the establishment of ties arbitrary, but in some way related to the subjectivity of the person carrying them out. →
The art of 'field recordings', also called 'phonography', ie of environmental records manages to focus our attention to the sounds accidental, which typically escape the consciousness in the flow of everyday life. The idea of →
The automatic generation of musicians through the software typically generates two opposite and complementary effects: attribute anthropomorphic characteristics to the car, or as an aesthetic influence on the authors automatic. The →
Electronic musical instruments have historically been constructed with the features of most electronic equipment that tracing those of musical instruments. The gesture and the feedback obtained from the instruments is often summed up in interfaces →
The characteristics of the paradigmatic vinyl (sequential and random access at the same time, manual gestures, data and legible thanks to a 'pointer' to the almost positioned at will) make it very close to the →
The re-transmission of environmental sounds in other parts of a homogeneous territory act as an eco artificially propagated for transmission, displacing and duplicating a sound in a territory elsewhere. Branching to Broadcast of →
