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.
Dack.com biting is a site in which the author (Dack Ragus, an American designer) likes to make fun of some of the myths that have mostly taken hold in the collective imagination →
The concatenations of personal networks now constitute the micro networks to himself, the myriad of overlapping webs and stuck in patterns that represented the schematic view of forming an intricate and comprehensive communication system →
The descriptive ability of language have undoubtedly experienced a sharp acceleration from the possibility of confrontation and access, greatly amplified by the horizontality of the network. The acquisition of new possibilities to →
Biometrics, which is the automatic recognition of individuals through some of their details such as facial features or fingerprints, is far from being abandoned as a result of constant disappointing results. The authorities tecnofile →
Already inaugurated on January 14, hack.it.art , is the event that is bringing for the first time in the German capital, landscape, probably unique, experience of activism Italian who synthesized and artistic aspects of innovation →
The wi-fi technology that allows you to deploy a wireless local area network within a certain radius, not only constitutes a 'door' to enter the nearest large network, but also a great opportunity for sharing →
Make the data according to visual coordinates unpublished, giving them a meal in the software to interpret them as if they were his specific inputs, offers a different perspective, and sometimes enlightening, on the data →
The awareness of the dramatic environmental problems need to be innovative communication mechanisms kept afloat and not drown the indifference of news streams to handle daily. The display of the highlights, in fact, can →
If the hacking most celebrated is the one that is a technical and conceptual elegant solution to a problem, the whole practice of intelligent reuse of resources, in fact, is able to break the deadly →
On 16 December are presented publicly licenses Creative Commons Italian going to fill a void of possibilities that now they fully available in our country. The meeting is scheduled from 14:30 to Conference →
