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 phenomenon of 'livecoding' music has slowly reflection on the sound generation induced minute by minute performative immediacy of the VJ, which came now to be part of common sense. The large collective called →
The aesthetics of the essential, after being developed in different times in history, seems to have become a dominant prerogative of modern times. In the crowd of information and consequent complex selection decisions, taken consciously →
The collaborative sound projects are built on a given entity to be pooled, a lowest common denominator capable of seeding new ideas and unusual deviations of thought. These can then generate a collective →
The voice is the only 'musical instrument' still can not be simulated efficiently by computing equipment. Despite promising products, but targeted to professional users, such as the Vocaloid by Yamaha, the entry is not part →
The 'sonoluminescence' is the phenomenon, discovered in 1929 by H. Frenzel and H. Schultes, which chemically converts the sound into light. The (accidental) discovery revealed that dissolving oxygen in water, this brightened if irradiated →
The use of physical interfaces to produce sound compositions is a practice that draws on the endless possibilities of connecting and programming of electronic devices to a PC. Among these are objects to which →
One of the results that artificial intelligence was able to obtain in many years of study is a good generation of evolutionary relationships among different entities. This recognizes common features in the same entity on →
Also this year the serratissima three days of electronic music and digital art in Barcelona takes place in the usual weekend overflowing with proposals, June 16 to 18. The Sonar 2005 , in fact, →
The encoding of conceptual works in programming code is a particular form of 'digitization' which implies passages media (ie from one medium to another material immaterial) are not negligible, even if at the same time →
Designed by Jason Nelson, Speech / Media is a digital experimental poetry project, which, through the use of software, results varied media sources including speeches, music, recordings, films, radio programs, crowd noise or →
