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.
L ' ASPCR (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots) is a company that since 1999 is responsible for ensuring basic rights to 'all sentient beings created in an artificial way'. Playing in advance →
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18.11.03 Bureau d’Etudes, cartographies of power.
The typical organigrams of a company organizational structures, are nothing but a graphic paradigm to describe the levels of power. This →
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11.11.03 MindGuard, fake software on psychotronic control.
Conspiracy theories have always gained a following in the western countries, a fact which demonstrates an active vigilance on the →
Designed by Roland Henss for Plazm, Capitalis Pirate is a font in which each each letter, number or sign is extracted from the corresponding letter of the logo of a multinational. This selection will reflect on →
There are countless as the grains of sand that you can put in the gears of control over the privacy of citizens. The mechanisms computer that oversee them, in fact, are among the most easily circumvented →
The project Agora Phobia , created in 2000 by artist Karen Lancel, takes the form of a Pillar Isolation / Free Zone placed in public spaces in different cities. A semi-transparent structure that can accommodate only →
HK-Hacker Kulture is a site dedicated to the hacker culture, history, philosophy, art, ethics and poetics hackers. Designed around four years ago by the mysterious creature Dame ', began life in July 2002 within the site →
The political language has often been the subject of sarcasm popular, both for its complexity peppered with neologisms arbitrary, both for its emptiness, which guarantees use act to disguise the real strategies and the unreliability of →
Video hype at all costs (video-blog, real-time videoconferencing, web-cam and videophones), there are few who are devoting sufficient attention to audio, with weight characteristics of the transmitted fully manageable and immediate usability. The project Uphone , →
Linguistic conventions of the underground has always been disrespectful towards the stringent rules of the spoken and written language, blind and deaf to its possible manipulations and mutations, resulting in the creation of new meanings. Defined →
