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.
Neural will be present at two important meetings today and tomorrow in Milan on the freedom of access and circulation of knowledge. Today Friday 17:00 to Bulk, in 36 Niccolini, we will discuss Net-thinking – Knowledge →
The last album (A.XL No.1) of Diabolik 'The Invisible Thief' winds around a group of hackers, designed as 'any boys', which contrasts first and then help the heinous character. Note the screens of computers in style →
Exemplary action has been taken by the brave activists of the LOA just before Christmas. At the cry of NOCOPY has applied the now historic anti-SIAE stamp on the material present in the megastore around the →
From December 27 to 29, in Berlin, will take place, as every year, the Chaos Communication Congress . This year are expected, in addition to always affolate conferences, workshops and seminars, the fourth German championship Lockpicking, →
The 214T Nestrike against the death penalty has undoubtedly worked for the Italian event, as the site of the State of Texas was not accessible from Italy from 18:00 to 19:00 yesterday 30novembre, while the website →
The 214T Nestrike against the death penalty has undoubtedly worked for the Italian event, as the site of the State of Texas was not accessible from Italy from 18:00 to 19:00 yesterday 30novembre, while the website →
Today November 30 Netstrike against the death penalty. In Italy you will participate between 18:00 and 19:00. Who is in Florence can go to the Feltrinelli. Here all the instructions on how to do.
Numerous statements gathered by Peacelink bode plots for nothing sympathetic towards the liberal heads online. Franco Abruzzo, president of the Journalists of Lombardy, in recent days has met with the Minister of Justice Piero Fassino, together →
Sunday, November 26, 2000 at 15:00 in Milan (Via Niccolini 36 ang. Fioravanti via the Bulk storage) the LOA hacklab organizes a seminar entitled 'The Encryption and its instruments'.
Among the techniques of biometrics (ie measurement of the physical characteristics, which are often unique to each), the facial thermograms are particularly promising for the recognition of a person for security purposes. They consist of images →
