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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29.05.01 Recording Studio online.
The Digital Sound Planet provides, in exchange for their personal information, space on a server and software (Windows) to record music →
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28.05.01 Napster vs. RIAA. Aimster, entire albums and HOB.
The RIAA has found a new scapegoat, Aimster suing for 'Copyright Infringement'. This time Aimster has →
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28.05.01 eMarker, spy gadgets for the radio.
Launched in the United States, the ' eMarker of Sony, is a toy from the modest price of →
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25.05.01 Database of securities held hostage.
The Gracenote , CDDB holder of the information database, containing data on 885,000 music albums, sued the Roxio, makers →
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– Saturday in Bologna, at the Link
. Khan (pictured) & Kid Congo Powers, using live
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24.05.01 Stirling's festival for new music and sound.
'The Weekend 2001 'is the title of the music festival and innovative sounds that will take place →
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23:05:01 SDMI still a failure.
In a meeting last settimna the SDMI (the consortium formed by major and hardware / software houses) failed to reach →
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22:05:01 Dj traded live as before.
The dj culture has always been ahead of the sterile copyright issues, following the flow of the music, ignoring →
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22:05:01 Vivendi acquires mp3.com.
Vivendi Universal, digital arm of the major label Universal, bought for $ 372 million mp3.com, in order to enhance Duet, the →
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21:05:01 Napster: MusicNet, spyware and LiquidAudio.
MusicNet, the system 'safe' for the sale of online traces developed by RealNetworks with funds from three of the →
