Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
L'Archivio Neural è un archivio di pubblicazioni noi raccolte nel corso degli anni. Sfoglia la nostra collezione qui.
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.
MER Paper Kunsthalle, ISBN: 978-9491775673, English, 84 pages, 800 numbered copies, 2015, The Netherlands
Ci sono alcuni libri nei quali si manipolano contenuto e forma per creare un interrotto continuum di un’idea centrale. Questa antologia di testi rientra perfettamente in →
The first 40 subscribers (new or renewing) to Neural #51 a will receive a free copy of “No Patent Pending, self-made performative media” beautiful book (only for subscribers for the printed magazine).
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La potenza di un file 3D condiviso è la sua ubiquità e l’infinita replicabilità. Essendo di solito utilizzato per scopi privati o stampe commerciali 3D vi è un sacco di potenziale per utilizzi pratici. Tider e Greenspan – infatti →
CD – Denovali
Stephan Otten e Oliver Klemm non sono nuovi in casa Denovali, potendo vantare con questo Engtanz Depression – e sempre sotto il moniker Sank Otten – ben sei uscite in catalogo. La collaborazione con l’etichetta tedesca iniziò →
The MIT Press, ISBN13: 9780262028080, English, 208 pages, 2014, USA
Nel suo nuovo libro, The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy and Ecology, Frances Dyson cerca d’interpretare la spirale del debito economico globale e le crisi ambientali attraverso un’aggiornata →
Da quando la vita apparve sulla Terra, per cause più o meno conosciute, si sono verificate diverse estinzioni di massa ‐ vi ricordate i dinosauri? Molti scienziati considerano l’enorme riduzione della biodiversità che stiamo registrando in questi anni, come l’origine →
CD – Domizil
Lo sperimentatore svizzero Luigi Archetti alla sua seconda uscita su Domizil – la prima, nel 2007, fu Fragments On Speed, Slowless And Tedium – elabora penetranti e austere sequenze auditive, mettendole in forma con strutture adesso meno →
Alla pubblicità, siamo tutti, oramai, mestamente abituati. Da molto prima che la cultura del marketing si sviluppasse e creasse una vera e propria “professionalità del settore”, la pubblicità ha imparato a vivere e a prendere forma dentro tutti i tipi →
Avete mai provato a dare la paghetta ad un software spendaccione? È quello che hanno fatto gli artisti del collettivo anglo-svizzero !Mediengruppe Bitnik, sguinzagliando un bot di shopping online su Agora Market Place, uno dei mercati più floridi del deep-web. →
Seeland Records, SEELAND030, LINGUA, 2CD+book, 2014, USA
Sin dal loro “Christianity Is Stupid”, brano dell’album Escape From Noise (1987), la religione e la sua comunicazione monolitica è stata un argomento caratterizzante per la band dei Negativland, che tornano adesso – →
