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 hard disk containing a dozen national and local Indymedia sites were seized on October 7 provider Rackspace, in its UK office, putting offline most of the national and local branches including those of →
The representation of social conflicts through the narrative of video games is one of the concrete opportunities to make a purely political message available to anyone, visually and interactively encoding an alternative view to →
The rough terrain of our study on brain function is bankrolled by a few decades of control and entertainment industry, to try to enslave the unconscious mechanisms to the logic of consumption and subjection. →
The project Italian_Hacktivism_and_Art , realized by Tatiana Bazzichelli (AHA) for Read_me Festival 2004 , consists of a plagiarism of the work made by the famous map.jodi.org netartisti jodi.org. The map shows the different connections between Hacking →
The mobility creative in the West often makes use of elite gadgets and technologies that leverage the infrastructure already put forward potential of the metropolitan area. But in less-developed regions will adopt low-tech solutions that, for →
How much spam has entered in our lives is difficult to quantify, but the daily exposure to the terminology and slogans messages invasive has certainly affected the mental ecology of network users. The bombing of unwanted →
The simplification of the information objects that are sensitive to remote data streams is not only one of the trends of contemporary industrial design, but also the luxury of objects that reduce a color change lighting →
Self-organization of events, highlighted by the media to the short season of the 'trend' of smart mobs, is really just the beginning, in the sense that technology in real time refers to the concepts of ancestral →
Despite a decade of visions, posters and declarations of intent are still few concrete attempts to exploit the network infrastructure to properly implement its intrinsic nature of sharing and collaboration, especially in the production of original →
Over time it seems that video games would be assigned an increasingly strategic role in forming consciences. Which is not so far from reality, given the commitment by the industry to pursue a dull uniformity net →
