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.
4’04” is a tribute, made by Jon Meyer, to the famous piano musical piece 4’33” written in 1952 by John Cage in three movements. It was like a sonata of four minutes and thirty-three →
Does Wikipedia utopia wobble? Is the free content editing of the free encyclopedia in contraddiction with the oligarchic stucture of the community that coordinates it? The software artist Wayne Clements seems to reply to →
Ten-sided is a project based on a blog (programmed using the r-Planet free software developed by Joel Watson, Phil Hagelberg e Andre Arko), that invited ten international artists (among them Francis Hwang
) with →
The spanish group Santofile lugs the meme concept in the discourse about the creative potential of digital technologies, being in favor of the content and public sources appropriation. The meme is the cultural factor →
Dreamlines by Leonardo Solaas is, in its own author’s words, a non linear visual interactive experience. The work is made with the integration of an inner part (the web, that contains all the information) and an →
A biodegradable sculpture, available to anyone who wants to contribute to shape it remotely. That’s how Emailerosion looks. It’s a installation conceived and built together by Ethan Ham, a sculptor, and Tony Muilemburg, a robotic designer. →
As a consequences of the recently introduced strict laws concerning the public institution’s websites accessibility in Italy, the ‘Multimedia Art’ department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara has started a new course →
Il brivido della sorpresa che si concretizza nell’aprire un pacco è una delle immagini più sfruttate dal marketing anche per la sua efficacia diretta. L’ignoto che ha premesse piacevoli e promettenti, infatti, accumula immediatamente un →
Quoting Armin Medosch “in a networked environment it is not so much individuality and expression that count but increasingly new ways of creating, sharing, disseminating digital work”. This is the basis of Markus Renschler’s project, FileSwap, →
The combines, from Duchamp to Raushenberg, have always been an inspirational form of expression for audio visual digital art. However the word ‘composition’ has different meanings: it is the combining →
