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.
The Belgian artist Jasper Rigole has dedicated his research to the concepts of authenticity, objectivity, falsification, and the special role that they play in relation to the processes of historization and, more generally, to →
Skinny Player – One Album Music Player by Chih-Wei Wang & Shou-Hsi Fu » Yanko Design
(tags: music sound design)
Daniel Palacios » Waves
Un largo trozo de cuerda representa tridimensionalmente una serie de ondas flotando en el espacio, a la par que →
Is it raining out? Ask your toothpaste | Crave – CNET
Tastes Like Rain.
(tags: media)
Nils Völker – Media Art and Design – Variations on Pi
VARIATIONS ON PI, Light Paintings
(tags: art media)
Mini-disc – Electroton
Already the title, “Rezykla”, suggests the concept underlying these four refined, minimalist compositions. The two authors, Thorsten Soltau and Martin Weiss, each contribute two works in which they manipulates →
Polity Press
, 2009
, 332 pages
, English,
ISBN-13: 978-0745640914
Finally available in English after eight years, “Optical Media” is an influential book by one of the major and more controversial media philosophers: Friedrich Kittler. →
Pruned: Walking Apiary
swarm is an autonomous roving device whose movements are determined by a collective of houseflies.
(tags: art science)
Pruned: GPS Coyotes
GPS Coyotes
(tags: urban mobile)
Street Art Stickers "Warning: Your life…" | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Street Art Stickers "Warning: Your life…" Sticker →
ethernet orchestra – networked improvisation
Ethernet Orchestra is an investigation of networked improvisation, examining cognition, intercultural collaboration and learning in networked audio platforms.
(tags: music sound net)
XWave Lets You Control iPhone Graphics with Your Brain
XWave Lets You Control iPhone Graphics with Your →
The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world | Technology | The Observer
The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
(tags: politics hacktivism)
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computing division computing section 1920
(tags: hacking)
OVER DATA on Vimeo
Over Data is a machinima shot in Google Earth, but the images of the Earth are extinguished, annulled in a white neutral surface. Data, information and icons are the only ones that design, define and create the →
Niklas Roy plays with the concept of privacy in his recent interactive installation My Little Piece of Privacy . To defend his laboratory in Berlin from prying eyes he has in fact →
Now That’s What I Call MIDI – today and tomorrow
Now That’s What I Call MIDI is a project by Internet Archaeology. They want to make a full length EP containing 16 of your favorite Jamz from yesteryear (Nirvana, Ace of →
CD – Entr’acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr’acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated →
The roots of Twitter? | Journalist Profile |
(tags: media)
Urushi Musical Interface on Vimeo
(tags: music sound design)
c60 Redux on Vimeo
c60 music player from IDEO’s Boston office
(tags: design music sound vinyl)
Warning: art that will blow your mind | Art and design | The Guardian
James Turrell's Bindu Shards at the Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross
(tags: art)
