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.
Lowtech was born from the minds of the group Redundant Technology Initiative in 1997 and is one of the few company where technology, creativity and education are associated with accessibility. Headquartered in Sheffield, UK, aim to →
A prize for those who violate the privacy of citizens, with great zeal and senzavergogna: In England and the Privacy International Association haannunciato the winners of the sixth edition of the Big Brother Awards . Lemedaglie →
This is “user friendly” even in its name. The ‘Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC)‘ collective has made an operating system really for the users, as opposed to a view of software →
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30.04.03 Playing Card Deck, western criminals playing cards.
The activists of gatt.org have struck again, releasing a new product ‘which openly ridicules the arrogance of the american →
User Friendly? This really is, starting with the name. The collective Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC) has developed an operating system that wants to be really close to the user, in opposition to the idea →
The China Internet Network Information Centre, which is the Chinese bureaucracy that dictates the rules compelling technical adjustment to all Internet Service Provider of the densely populated country, has issued the directives for all servers that →
From April 21 to 27 returns one of the highlights of the most important media activism in the USA. It is the TV Turnoff Week , the week of 'voluntary fasting television' given by the Culture →
The ' honeypot 'diversionary software are designed to attract hackers inexperienced in the areas of corporate networks closely monitored, diverting attention from the areas most at risk and with valuable information. These zones 'safe' are carefully →
The worst attacks made using computer networks are those able to influence our daily lives. On this subject Aviel D. Rubin, Simon Byers and David Kormann have published a scientific paper on computer security at the →
The blade of the prior cansura has struck again, and previously, on a pair of American researchers Billy Hoffman and Virgil Griffith. The two have acted showing the weaknesses of the system of the Blackboard Transaction →
