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.
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 →
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17.04.03 Attacking spammers by drowning them in paper.
The worst attacks made using computer networks are those able to influence our daily lives. On this subject Aviel →
The gadgets and personal technologies are often represented in the fictitious narrative constructed as advertising for his own pleasure. But the idealized situations and without the slightest smear of the spots do not occur ever. Much →
Being spied on by the FBI in recent months probably means having to deal with the software Intellifind Verint Systems of New York, as in press releases flaunting incredible ability to surveillance. The software works by →
Among the many vultures of war, we can include also the Sony Entertainment has patented the phrase 'Shock and Awe' after a few days of the war (March 21) to pave the way eponymous video game →
The reworking of the work of another person is not a new practice in the art world , and often the original authors involved have expressed disappointment at having lost a part of their 'paternity'. Paradoxical →
Anne-Marie had begun Schleiner with his repeated campaigns pacifist Velvet Strike carried out within the popular online game Counterstrike through some hacks that did show poster as 'Hostage of an Online Fantasy' or 'You are your →
