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.
Nell'effervescente electronic music scene there are 8-bit radicalizations interest in the use of computer tools atavistic, with bands that defy the 'limitations' intrinsic computers twenty years ago to assemble electronic music very special. The Tree Wave →
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11.11.03 Bass-Station, a music server in a ghetto blaster.
The external look of the hardware possesses a strongly symbolic component in the representation of its contents, and →
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07.11.03 Ping Melody, dueting with the Net.
Using the uncatchable data flow of the Net as a process for transforming information is a more and more common →
From 16 to 25 October IRCAM in Paris is home to Réseaunances a unique electronic music festival that has only a remote audience. The choice of the organizers was in fact to organize this festival in →
Edwin van der Heide is a Dutch sound artist, who devotes much of his research to the sound percepitp such as size, or as invisible element inherent in space, which becomes predominant when exalted in his →
Free Speech for Sale follows the tradition of artistic experimentation based on plagiarism and the détournement of commercial products, as it was for the '100 Soup Cans' by Andy Warhol and the cut-ups of William S. →
MaxGumTree is a 'sound toy' in flash that obeying an alien language made up of lines, dots and circles, animates a rubber tree, in fact, that produces balloons ready to burst, translating its evolution into a →
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28.10.03 League of Electronic Music Urban Robots.
Having an antropomorphic musical partner is an intimate desire of many electronic musicians, which dream of a partially controlled interaction →
Interview conducted during Ars Electronica in James Patten and Ben Recht on their work Audiopad .
Edited by Angela Serino.
How does your work, from a technical point of view?
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Developed under the GPL for Linux, MacOSX and Windows, Stepmania is a video game music, one of the few, manages to move throughout the body of the player you must follow the directions of movement in →
