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.
– Friday the Havana Club in Naples
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RealAudio 21:06:01 Microsoft-clash and spied on.
Important news announced at the 'Streaming Media West Conference' these days. Two different standards, according to a script that →
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Burn from 20:06:01 blocked by EMI.
The EMI has signed an agreement with Roxio, makers of the most used programs to burn as 'Easy CD →
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20.06.01 Remix contest for Exciter.
At the site of Acid Planet is an active remix contest for two songs from the last album of Depeche →
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19:06:01 Business online music.
According to a study of the Informa Media Group's total sales of online music tenfold by 2006, reaching nearly $ 10 →
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19:06:01 Sex to see Madonna.
Tickets for Madonna concerts in Berlin (scheduled from today until Saturday were sold out in a matter of minutes since →
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18:06:01 Ogg Vorbis 1.0.
Finally released version 'release candidate' (a kind of beta) version 1.0 Ogg Vorbis , audio compression codec competitor to the standard →
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18:06:01 Copy a cd in three minutes.
The Verbatim Europe has released the first CD-R certificate for writing at 24x speed, the DataLifePlus, which, thanks →
– Friday the former playing boules, Rome
. Magika Rome (in the image. Remotti, Recycle, Entartetekunst, Lombardi) the
Saturday in Rome, the Blue Cheese
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14:06:01 FullAudio Agreement and BMG.
The first agreement between a major and a distributor of music on the Internet. The BMG has signed a three-year →
