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 book ' copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom ', it is proposed to consider the use of free licenses, describing the current state of copyright laws and putting forward an analysis that aims to demonstrate how →
From June 30 to July 6, 2003 in Athens, Greece, takes life day and night Eclectic Tech Carnival , described as "a seven day and night carnival of exchanging computer related skills". With a difference: organized →
The collective's website Virtual Migrants, recently updated, presents a retrospective of the initiative Terminal Frontiers made at the Castlefield Gallery last fall. An event of digital art exclusion and globalization, which involved visual artists, musicians, performers →
As reported by ' Associated Press , The Governor of the State of New York George Pataki signed a law that punishes with penalties of up to seven years in prison who takes pictures in the →
Its sixth edition, the ' hackmeeting is a major event for all those who believe in critical and conscious use of new media. Located on the Barrio of Turin, as every year includes a wealth of →
More of the brutal hacking techniques could practice and social distraction. John Hargrave has put online Credit Card Prank , his personal practice regarding the use of personal credit cards. This research concerns individual actually one →
Headquartered in London, but is also active in Berlin and Los Angeles, the collective A-Clip creates interference in the star system independent of commercial cinema. A-Clip offers pills film in which artistic expression and political opposition →
Holland is a country where the growth of new media has been going hand in hand with constant social and political initiatives. Particularly in Amsterdam, since the beginning of the Nineties, there have been many interesting initiatives →
Open Cultures, free flows of information and the politics of the commons is an intense two days of conferences, exhibitions and workshops, in progress at the Project Space Karlsplatz in Vienna June 5 to 6. The →
. Pun, on censorship and its derivatives , an event that includes a convention, some installations, dj / vj September The central theme is that of censorship, the invisible weapon of control of the social fabric →
