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 acoustic environment enjoyed in front of the screen is often filled with buzzing, clicking or isolated in mp3 files delivered via headphones or from the speakers, covering sounds and frequencies obtained from natural elements that →
The software can convert the music in a matter of interface, where the code that oversees its production is blatantly natural, even in its abstraction in pixels. BallDroppings is a direct example of this model, in →
With the gendarmes of the music industry on the one hand and the daily practice for millions of people on the other hand, the peer-to-peer is realized in every where in the time of the transfer, →
The procedures for data transformation makes it possible unexpected metamorphosis in that shape an entirely different form the original input sequences. In the transition from one conceptual domain to another, through appropriate interpretations programmed, the data →
Innovation, at times, passes through the rethinking of ancient models, setting aside the consolidated fruits of progress and inventing new prototypes. This is the principle followed by Earglasses , a protest of plastic that adds two →
The aesthetic 8bit sound, after a posthumous and progressive development of the last two years (Malcolm McLaren has noticed also that attempted to label it with the disgusting term 'chip music') is evolving towards land even →
After the time of the pioneers of generative music, they begin to make their way experiments targeted and thematic fields which are able to bring the first signs of more design possibilities in a position to →
Inspiration of the devil, probably. We Want Your Soul , is a sham corporation with enormous potential, 250 million souls subject to hypothetical trades into a non-indifferent, if it is remembered that was born only to →
From the research phase of the directional sound is moving towards that of production. The Holosonic , a company led by researcher Dr.. Joseph Pompei, is developing three transducers 12, 18 and 24 inches in width, →
The modification of everyday objects nel'arte reconsidering their use canon allows you to recode their role, now taken for granted by changing their characteristics to the purpose not so overtly functional. O Telephone is an installation →
