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.
In terms of peer-to-peer real, however, with good timing has been announced a new version of one of the many clients for GnutellaNet, the Gnotella 0.9.8 for Windows . With nuemrose options, such as locking the →
A new system of filters is another rabbit pulled out of the hat of the lawyers of Napster. Based on the names, which is saying something, would automatically block users who exchange files protected by copyright, →
The plot conspires in the shadows. The RIAA is trying to recruit as many Republicans will be able to put together an anti-Napster compact within the United States Congress. Appointed an external consultant, the senator from →
– Friday in Turin at the Supermarket
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– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. Passarani Marco (pictured) 6 Katun live set – nature →
It opens today at the International Center for Contemporary Art in Bucharest the Slovenian net art exhibition that includes works by Jaka Zeleznikar, Vuk Cosic, Teo Spiller, Igor Stromajer – Intima Virtual Base (pictured), and the →
Copyright.net reported to Napster 1001082 violations of copyright on songs by Roy Orbison (author of, among other things, the famous Pretty Woman), demanding that all accounts listed were blocked in such a way as to allow →
The team that created the Ogg Vorbis format, inaugurated the Xiph Foundation, a non-profit to support the efforts of the development team. Ogg Vorbis is a project that is attempting to develop a format similar to →
The Fahrenheit Entertainment , an American company with inside a record label specializing in country music, has announced the release of their first cd copy protected. This is the latest album by Charley Pride, and the →
The kiosks for the sale of music selectable at will increasingly resemble the intersection between a jukebox and a petrol station. Does not deviate from this description MusicTeller , the series of pseudo-distristribuzione monoliths that were →
It is currently in beta testing Snoopstar , the software of the little-publicized Bertelsmann, which could intervene in the Napster case were to fail at any moment. The official version is that Snoopstar is just a →
