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.
Print a journal of media art is not an easy task, having to barcamenare between all the problems (economic, logistic, distribution and administrative expenses) that the flourishing production jump online instead of at →
magazine – O’Reilly Media, Inc. – ISBN 0596100787
The best seller hacker magazines (2600, Blacklisted 411) have spread to the public the innovative and sometimes genial techniques of electronic systems manipulation. they emerged from the →
The most followed magazines' hacker '(such as '2600' or 'Blacklisted 411') have historically led the innovative and often ingenious techniques for handling electronic systems to public attention, emerging from an underground which have been linked salutariamente, →
TThe last twenty years of studies on corporate organisation and efficiency in human resources management have sacrificed, through their experiments, every ethical principle to achieve the holy grail of the capital machine: productivity. The interaction →
The magazine Simultaneity comes alive in an entirely in English version with a number theme entitled 'The Soul of Digital Art'. Founded in 1997, with specific interest on new media art and its multiple expressions, the →
Someone promptly called a 'tele-paper' and in the synthesis of the two terms on the contrary, that a newspaper that is, it shows the movement of the televisions of the road, is the scope of this →
The strategies of media resistance have evolved with the changes in the situation, and this precious collection of video materials succeeds in feeling the pulse of antagonist communication with exceptional up-to-dateness. Designed to be published at →
Printed for the WSIS in Geneva, this anthology sttrikes at the heart of the problem of the freedom of the flow of information and the free access to humanist and scientific culture in particular. Completely detached from →
Abnormalities digital_arts, multilingual international journal under the direction of Emanuele Quinz, Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Numerical Arts Dance and Music at the University of Paris, continues an interesting and detailed investigation into the →
It still makes sense in a magazine on paper with the theme electronic music with new and exciting features it offers online information (real-time updates and links to labels, shop and artists, →
