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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10:08:01 HAL 2001.
Begins today and will continue until Sunday the HAL (Hackers At Large) 2001 , mega international hacker convention. The quadrennial event (after →
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09:08:01 EFF defends anonymity.
In an escalation of lawsuits concerning the defense of the rights of the citizen electronic, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has →
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07:08:01 He died Wau Holland.
He died at 49 Wau Holland, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club Character instrumental in advocating for public use science, →
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07:08:01 Released Dmitry Sklyarov.
$ 50,000 shall be paid to the bail set at liberty Dmitry Sklyarov, an employee of Elcom (see FBI arrests participant →
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26.07.01 Hacker film (1).
' Hackers: Computer Outlaws ', a new documentary is presented exclusively on cable TV American TLC (The Learning Channel). Putting aside →
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26/07/01 Hacker film (2).
' Swordfish ', is a new trivial and pointless film that will not be long in our cinemas. Still a meatloaf →
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Adobe 24.07.01: release the Soviet Union.
The Adobe with dramatically reversed after the meeting with the EFF, has announced that it will strive for the →
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24.07.01 G8 material online.
A public archive of material on the anti-G8 protest was set up in record time and divided into texts, sounds and →
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23:07:01 Adobe meets the EFF.
Certain directors of the Adobe meet representatives of the EFF ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) to discuss the complaint made →
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07.23.01 G8 protests repression and electronic equipment.
After the intoxication of the media these days about events that happened at the G8 summit in Genoa, →
