these videos were made for the “technological variety show” non necesseriamente in 1984 by Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici under the direction of Carlo Massarini

hurumhagelag:

found this amazing bunch of videos made on an apple ll in 1984, by “italian multimedia company” Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici

in seemingly random image collections with just a few criteria (cool/impressive/digital) it’s cool when you start seeing patterns hinting at something more cohesive, whether it’s style, personality or something else. some previous examples of that for me were a series of Patrick Nagel recreations that show up here and there but seem to be obviously done by the same person(those and some more in my #nagel tag). see also M. Habibi and Dion Kraft.

some of my fave finds from these collections hint at some kind of unifying style that is harder to place, but i think i just placed them. they all seem different in that they approach making a picture in a less obviously ego driven way than amateur computer art of the time. (demoscene as the most obvious example. nothing against it but these don’t make it quite as obvious they have something to prove) there’s also stylistic similarities between them and they seem more in touch with the trends of that era. (late 80s/early 90s) I found a series of gifs on the 1992 astra blaster cd-rom #1 where the first is a header tying it to Ecole Brassart, a french school of graphic arts. i zipped them up with the descriptions from the cd-rom, and made a tag for them: #ecole brassart

looking through old image collections as they’re preserved on shareware cd-roms, preserved at sites like textfiles.com and archive.org - often just the contents of a bbs burned to a physical format, now again displayed as file listings through a computer network - makes you wonder at the people responsible and what motivations they had. in a context where the only criteria for inclusion are being a digital picture and looking cool or impressive (from the cultural and technological vantage point of the late 80s/early 90s) seeing a picture of a bird someone deemed a big enough deal to laboriously transfer to a digital format (and brag about in the very image they digitized) makes you consider the bird and appreciate the process that brought it to you. telltale signs of that transferral humanizes seemingly random pictures