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.
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20/12/02 Interactive tests of binaural sounds.
The University of York has made an important and fun test on the perception of binaural sounds. L ' →
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20:12:02 Weekender: Fischerspooner, Thomas Bar, Focalizer, Alex blacks, Paul Arnold.
Over the weekend looms over all, the goa.ultrabeat in Rome, Horus Club, live Fischerspooner, followed →
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19:12:02 Bruce Haack: The King of Techno.
Bruce Haack is one of the unsung pioneers of that since the fifties has built his craft tools, →
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18:12:02 Drum Pattern Programmer.
To familiarize yourself with the classic drum patterns drum machines, Gregory Shakar has implemented on this Web ' Pattern Drum Programmer →
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17:12:02 Bandlink, the cd that tell about your business.
Access to the user's computer, and then to a variable part of his private life, remains →
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14:12:02 Servovalve.org, songs sonographic findings.
Servovalve.org is a sequence 'chrono-illogical' as defined by the author of songs 'sonographic'. In fact they are developed together with →
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14:12:02 Weekender: Aphex Twin, Rephlex, Mirko Loko & N.Twan, Sage, Optical.
Aphex Twin's Rephlex in the tour (part Maddog "Cougar" Wallace, Astrobotnia, Bogdan Raczynski, Cylob, →
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13:12:02 V_, the festival vj Bulk of Milan.
V_ is a show promoted by Box and Otolab, collective audiovisual research in Milan, hosted by CSA →
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13.12.02 Cello, robotic sound art.
Beatriz da Costa is an artist who explores the possibilities of robot art, and at the same time is fascinated by sound. →
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12/10/02 Hearing Colors, colors that resonate.
Presented all'ISEA 2002 ' Hearing Colors 'is a work of the acronym nonsection, which seeks to trigger in the →
