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.
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 →
The U.S. military has not only brought freedom in Iraq, but has also recruited a group of contemporary artists to teach the people of Iraq as the fundamental basis del'arte American. American artists, dressed as Marines, →
Among the many branches of artificial intelligence, ‘stylometry’, one of the less known, investigates the problem of recognizing the sex of a writer by examining his/her style. Shlomo Argamon is a computer scientist at the Illinois Institute →
Banknotes 'realistic' printed inkjet? It is the alarm raised by De la Rue , a company specializing in security techniques in the reproduction on paper. According to a statement published by the New Scientist printers already →
The activity of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), comes from the reflection on the relationship between censorship, technology and strength. The project was born in the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory of the Munk Centre for International →
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 →
