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.
Inaugurated on September 23, the tenth edition of Sonic Acts , electronic music and arts festival which this year has chosen to emphasize the futility of the taxonomy of information arts (visual, sound, performance, etc.. etc..) →
One of the methods to avoid the eternal conflict of forensic involving public to copyright is to use the sharp weapon of irony, stimulating large-scale popular reactions that make clear the paradox between the obsession with →
The vehicular sound through other physical structures (whether teeth , bones of the skull or screens ) is a practice that tries to exploit the vibration of bodies to play melodies without the use of conventional →
After more than three years of flourishing international productions, the first hit ('I wanna dance with numbers', who married Whitney Houston and Kraftwerk) to the sensational case raised a few months ago by the Grey Album →
The possibilities of technology to reflect some of its structures through integration with organic systems leads to a mingling of elements which show the respective dependence, and at the same time, the need for collaboration. Gongs →
The composition tool online often translate into cloying interactive toys, that exploiting the basic tools of composition audio / visual assemble procedures with some special effect which you get tired after a while. Unlike these Domino →
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23.11.04 Hardware Orchestra, a sequencer made with recycled components.
The unrecognizability, for the typical computer user, of everything inside the case, of →
The mobile intervention within the urban area is one of the popular sizes being explored by visual artists and sound. The spatial location of the works within the places normally enjoyed in a different way, introduces →
After the broken promises of reality 'immersive' announced ten years ago by the media boom of virtual reality, isolation from the outside world and dive into a parallel dimension to its surrounding area have hired a →
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27.09.04 Reliktstrahlung, visual sinthesis of sound loops.
‘Seeing’ music while it’s played is one of the contemporary obsessions, an artistic parameter which has pervaded →
