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.
Inaugurated on May 22 at the Kunsthalle in Vienna ATTACK! Art and War in the Media Age , an exhibition dedicated media aspect of the conflict, more important than the reality of the drama of mutilated →
A new VoIP (Voice over IP) service is catching the attention of phone companies, but also of FBI and the american Department of Justice, who demand new laws to extend their power of control and interception on →
For a conceptual artist, able to make a sensation represents a public acknowledgment of his own idea, as important as its representation. The black artist Damali Ayo has managed to collect attention from many quarters with →
According to an article in the Russian Interfax information network the Shanghai Coordination Team of Ratification on Harmful Internet Information has formalized the prohibition to establish and convey false information or dangerous through the network, with →
It is announced for July, the commercialization of the first camera interfaced with mobile phones from Nokia . The electronic eye is motato wall and returns images (for now only static) is detected, a cell phone →
The name comes from the date of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989, and the system, Six / Four precisely, and a peer-to-peer technology that makes it possible to carry out any activities on →
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09.05.03 Guerrillamarketing.it, italian tactical media.
Legitimate children of Luther Blissett’s theories, based in Rome, Guerrillamarketing.it activists have already shown a strong tactical media strategy with their amusing →
In the various stories of censorship activist network , now increasingly common not only in the military or totalitarian regimes, that of Sina Motallebi are taking traits. The Iranian activist has a solid background as a →
One of the hidden possibilities of digital tools for images is to modify important photos blatantly distorting the facts and introducing elements of judgment forged through a sophisticated use of techniques within everyone's reach. The English →
Varese also has its own well-nourished group of archeology enthusiasts, computer science, and this year an event dedicated to them: on April 27, in the frame of the park of Villa Toeplitz and is held at →
