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.
book – Autonomedia – ISBN 1570271682
The devastating social consequences of the post-fordist economical models had led to the flooding of work time in our private spaces, and this is one of →
One of the basic principles of what has been recently defined as ‘web 2.0’ (i.e. that part of the web able to actively involve the targeted communities) is the user’s involvement in the content creation, not →
One of the basic principles of what has recently been referred to as Web 2.0 (ie that part of the Web able to actively involve the community of reference) is the user participation in content →
book – Portfolio Hardcover – ISBN 1591840880
It’s not an hyperbole to affirm that Google is the most used computer platform in the world. Its enormous potential, still in early stage, is firmly based →
Out of any fashion metaphor, in ‘Stockmarket Skirt‘ the stock exchange determines the dress characteristics. This installation by the media artist Nancy Paterson stages ‘Judy’, a manikin with a dress whose hem changes dynamically, →
If the bag is customary for an accessory to the dress female subject, in the case of ' Stockmarket Skirt 'it is precisely the stock market to determine the characteristics of the dress. The installation of the media artist Nancy →
Video activism has a strategic role to nell'assuefazione increasingly concentrated doses of content in broadcasting: to break the chain of attention, reactivating our critical sense of what the multinational intellectual property considered a done →
The importance of collaborative dimension of the writing on the network has been synthesized from the Wiki, a tool that, born in 1995, began to spread like wildfire since the early 2000s. This tool has →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262072602
The ‘Open Source’ concept, even if often made ambiguous and cannibalized by the same industry whose exploiting principles is shattering, is one of →
Reproposing an ironic vision of an out of fashion past is one of the prerogatives of videogames, which have the possibility to recreate historic systems through simulations and keep afloat memories which the fury of information →
