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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28.01.02 fraud with the site of Bowie.
A blatant scam was accomplished through several sites, including the official one of David Bowie, following the pattern →
– Friday in Turin, the Notorious
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– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. DJ Storm (Metalheads, pictured) drum'n'bass, UK
– Saturday in Rome, at →
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24.01.02 'In magma electronics in the whirlpool disco', tonight at Bolzano.
Tonight at 21:00, Auditorium Haydn of Bolzano, for the cycle onandon, avraà place New →
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23:01:02 The music of the Nokia + Pressplay launched on mp3.com.
– The Finnish Nokia has reached its first agreement with the local telecommunications company →
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22:01:02 Kazaa sold.
Today it was announced the sale of Kazaa, the Dutch company producing the eponymous free software for peer-to-peer exchange of files. Kazaa →
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21:01:02 The so-called protected can not have the logo 'cd' and Kazaa autosospeso.
– Philips Electronics has put a heavy mortgage on the technologies of →
– Friday in Turin, the Notorious
. Rino Cerrone, House.
– Friday in Reggio Emilia, the Maffia
. Matt Cantor – Freestylers, energetic breaks. Uk
– Friday in →
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17:01:02 audio coding in the car.
MEX-HD1 is a new model of the Sony car stereo that includes a CD player and a 10Gb Hard →
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01/16/02 Music Rebellion: prices established by popularity.
Music Rebellion is one of many companies that are planning the sale of music tracks online, this time, →
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15:01:02 Online Music, fibrillation industry.
Many are the stirrings of the beginning of 2002 in the music industry in relation to its ambitions in the →
