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.
If the practices of mapping represent a formalization of visual knowledge, which is able to synthesize abstract data such as the description of an area, in a publicly accessible form, less obvious are their construction →
In view of the WSIS in Tunis in mid-November, WorldInformation.org The project is producing, in addition to a series of initiatives, another newspaper, in 'everyday' with interventions that dissect the problem of the →
The control mechanisms based their power on the identification of unique entities controlled, thanks to the technologies applied to cross the evidence to verify the uniqueness itself. This overlap of data which aims at reconstructing →
The reinterpretation of television images, making them exit the video and placing them in different contexts, it implies a transformation of meaning that breaking the habit-forming mechanism of the small screen, →
The unavoidable hierarchy of importance of data on the Net that emerged thanks to search engines, whose goal is to represent ‘the best selection of contents’, represents a conceptual vicious circle. That is, the popularity of →
The concept of modernism is based on the oxymoron of fresh obsolescence, and surrounds the objects of thirty years ago or so with an aura of rarity and nostalgia that give them a value →
The project Ballettikka Internettikka the Slovenian Igor Stromajer since its first version has examined the role of the body in real-time broadcasts of the network is brought back to the properties of broadcasting staff →
Control techniques are elusive by their very definition and use technology almost invisible in order to retrieve information useful for the identification and subsequent repression. To do this for some time →
After years of tedious and intricate software tools, standards to compile regular text contributions (ie, blogs) have released the graphomania of certain cross and writing of others, through a non-exclusive use of the text, bring →
What could knock out the Internet in no time at all? Not just a colossal black out or a contemporary sabotage key problem of the major backbones, but also a unilateral decision of companies and →
