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 interactive sound installations expressed by the public are often directed to the public 'human' and its entertainment. Few are, however, examples of works that seek to embed itself with a place and with its own →
Space is the invisible dimension of the sound, which also consists of traveling waves within a particular place, in contrast to the time that instead is universally perceived in the duration of the sound itself. In →
The visualization of sound and a thousand streams of interpretation and technical areas where you are divided, on the one hand constitutes an expansion of the sensory acoustic part, and on the other un'intrattenimento the viewer →
Peer-to-peer exchange of information is a shared territory in its own right, unofficial, archived and responsible for the data passing through. The set of texts used to define the files and the keywords used to search →
Despite all efforts to churn out a marketing politically correct and wring an eye to the music industry and another to users and their comfort, even the refined products Apple does not escape out to a →
If the performance of the vj are often characterized by sequencing of loops according to an impromptu personal aesthetic, without any contextualization that goes beyond the continuous movement of forms and the special effect, there are →
The addition of electronic features of acoustic instruments allows you to develop the ability to exponentially sound production and make it more thrifty control on the instrument itself. Metasaxophone Project by Matthew Burtner is a project →
.emusic
09.07.04 Let them sing it for you, fragmented plagiarism.
One of the undeniable advantages of creative musical plagiarism is its power to dispel the aura of the →
The session vj are many more enlightened and extremely heterogeneous materials used, but rarely refer to the same tools used, preferring to draw an imaginary film or television. Mathias Fuchs and Sylvia Eckermann, creators of the →
If the dematerialization of the musical product, induced from files, network level playing field and put together by the online store is having the generational consequences, such as the gradual erosion of the concept album, →
