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.
Arachne Publishing, ISBN 8854800287 Art in the network is not solely that which occurs iteratively in the texts and reconstructions of the most. There are several works, the artists and the currents of →
Garzanti, ISBN 8811600170 One of the (very few) texts published in Italian on digital arts, this substantial anthology (over six hundred pages) is characterized by the effort to embrace all the arts in →
Independent Curators International, ISBN 0916365719 If the trials of the relationship between sound and image have their roots in analog but equally effervescent seventies, many of those ideas are →
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ISBN 3883758914 The exceptional personal imagery of Carsten Nicolai had a broad recognition in the world of contemporary art, which is able to clearly interpret the codes used →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262033283 The 'media activism' translated into Italian as 'media activism' was born well before the computer networks and has manipulated the media, electrical and electronic equipment before then, with →
Actar, ISBN 8495951134 In his dual role as 'kind' and 'tool', electronic music has permeated musical culture to its roots in the past fifteen years. Fulfill her aspiration to work 'directly' on the →
Lalli Publisher Redefining the museum space and yield online and offline works of art on the net, in the appropriate spaces, is the theme of this agile essay briefly traces the history →
ZRC Publishing / Revolver, ISBN 3937577408 Marina Grzinic, artist and theorist of media, is among the leading expert in the peculiar evolution of the media in art and in society in the territories →
ZRC Publishing / Revolver, ISBN 3937577408 Marina Grzinic, artist and theorist of media, is among the leading expert in the peculiar evolution of the media in art and in society in the territories →
Metropolis real transfigured in the story, fanciful visions of a hallucinatory, surreal thrills and post-apocalyptic, extremely dense and godile in an anthology, edited by Peter Crowther, one of the most influential science fiction →
