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.
Neural #35 extra (only for subscribers):
Move, new European media art festival official dvd.
Videos with artists presenting their work, sometimes helped by respondents with some artworks excerpts, including: Shu Lea Cheang, →
Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics | Rethinking the Political in a Digital Age
The project will explore the intersection of politics, networks and cultural practices
(tags: politics media net)
IOGraphica — MousePath's new home
IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements →
Clocks have their own aura. They quantify invisible and unstoppable time. And mechanical clocks have also interesting audio properties – in fact they scan time through their repetitive sounds. Coincidence Engines is a →
Studienverlag & Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-3706547956, Austria, 2009, English
The centrality of search engines in everyday lives has recently been focused on by different institutions involved in →
Communication in a Digital Age » Blog Archive » Conference announcement: viralcommunication.nl
viralcommunication.nl (advertising, marketing, social media, viral), Conference 12-13 April Piet Zwart Institute
(tags: net media)
Photoshop 20th Anniversary – Startup Memories | Adobe TV
In this documentary, the founders of Adobe Photoshop – John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman – tell the story of how an amazing coincidence of circumstances, that came together →
Category » Conference « @ kilpiscope
ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE, Practices in transformation
(tags: art conference science)
Autonomedia, ISBN 978-1570272059, UK, 2009, English
The 4th anthology of texts realized by the DATA Browser series editorial group, is focused on “security”, an ambiguous yet extremely popular concept, exploited →
Change The Code, Keep The Text
Change The Code, Keep The Text, literature and code
(tags: literature net art)
Mechanical Memory Key by ~back2root on deviantART
Mechanical Memory Key, steampunk USB Flash drive
(tags: design hacking)
FACT | 2010 | MyWar
MyWar, A radically personal look at conflict in the digital age
(tags: art exhibition hacktivism)
