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.
The best day to launch this project was undoubtedly September 11th. The fake institutional tears flowed for the lukewarm memory commemorated a human disaster with a careful selection of morbid images, made to sow the same →
There was no better day of the commemoration of September 11 for the global launch a similar project. The institutional fake tears, the warm memory of a human catastrophe is celebrated through a careful selection →
The 'war on terror' (war of terror) has implemented, among other disasters, new principles of territorial sovereignty possible by the spatial extension of global communications. The hold 'enemies outlaw' with the total →
On the main road of the standard formats for recording data (average of a Lesser God), there are many who, over time, until slumped to its margin, prematurely ending their task. The →
If the techniques of mapping data are multiplied with the growth of software tools capable of implementing them and hardware fast enough to elaborate visualization, collaborative ones, ie allowing a realization shared, they begin to →
The media coverage of urban public space (the place most affolato of stimuli to the purchase of goods, with the exception of the television screen) has prompted the creation of many →
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The ‘media activism’ was born well before the telematic networks and it has manipulated the media, first the electric and then the electronic one, with the →
This product has nothing to do with the Mecca Cola & Co., nor with other sparkling drinks that have marketing strategies like presenting as a safe alternative to the U.S. giants or, sometimes, →
The inevitable hierarchy of importance of data over a network, which originated in the time because of search engines, whose goal is to always be 'the best selection of content' in relation to specified keyword, →
The exponential grow of the information access has made us bulimic for our image daily dose, pretending it has to be always new and more and more unexpected. Moreover in our daily environment the →
