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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11/27/01 anti-Microsoft DNS.
Fifty more, and perhaps even more) domains have been created to denigrate jokingly Microsoft. Performing a DNS lookup to SamSpade.org at microsoft.com →
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26.11.01 New deal on crime on the Internet.
Thirty nations signed an international convention in Budapest criminal use of the Internet that covers different aspects →
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Privacy 26.11.01 Lecture Series.
Continue to the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto lecture series on the topic of privacy ( Privacy Lecture Series →
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Privacy 26.11.01 Lecture Series.
Continue to the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto lecture series on the topic of privacy ( Privacy Lecture Series →
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23:11:01 Buy nothing day.
Saturday, November 24th will be the day of Buy Nothing Day , a global mobilization that comes from a small idea →
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22:11:01 China closes 17,488 NetCafe.
The Chinese government has closed 17,488 NetCafe with the excuse of not having done so effectively to block subversive and →
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22:11:01 Spying on the cameras.
According to a study by the CSS International, a company that produces and security monitoring services, the average employee in →
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21:11:01 The keylogging Carnivore.
The FBI is already developing an improved version of Carnivore, called 'Enhanced Carnivore Project', where it is no option to enter →
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11.21.01 Law on publishing 'excellent' for the government.
Despite the 54,000 signatures collected by Computer Point and 3,300 websites to support the demand for repeal →
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11/20/01 Safe Web services disposes of free privacy.
SafeWeb has dismantled its free service of privacy that protected the identity of users and their movements →
