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.
audioMER, ISBN-13: 978-9492321206, English, 240 pages, 2016, USA
Le proprietà conduttive della grafite sono state utilizzate dagli artisti del suono in maniere differenti – come un tool freeform a disposizione del pubblico in “Paper Circuits” di Franziska Windisch, Martin Rumori, →
I dati che registrano le nostre attività sportive sono diventati alcuni tra i più comunemente prodotti “big data” che ci riguardano. Il meccanismo ingannevole, attivato con successo da tecnologie fitness-correlate, si propone di concedere premi istantanei attraverso adeguate interfacce e →
CD – Uovooo
Markus Popp, il seminale glitch poet che si nasconde sotto il moniker Oval, torna con un concept album, l’omonimo Popp, uscita che con tale titolo è da intendere – tuttavia – non secondo modalità consuete e nemmeno →
Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0822357305, English, 352 pages, 2015, USA
L’esplosione inarrestabile di dati registrati rende sempre più difficile ridurre la sua complessità a una rappresentazione comprensibile e significativa. La scala alla quale confrontarci è sconosciuta. Questa è una situazione →
Non abbiamo certo bisogno di far risorgere McLuhan per notare interi eserciti di protesi tecnologiche che ci circondano quotidianamente. Se restiamo a livello simbolico ce ne sono innumerevoli, ma anche se limitiamo la nostra ricerca a livello corporeo ce sono →
3“CDR – 1000füssler
Una sola traccia – di 23 minuti e 16 secondi, registrata a Santiago del Cile, nel Dicembre del 2014, al Madre Selva studio, da Alfonso Pérez – risuona adesso ancora ipnotica e meditativa, innestata da ponderati droni, →
MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262029261, English, 528 pages, 2015, USA
Riorganizzando una ben nota serie di antologie critiche dopo alcuni anni di vaghezza, The New Museum e il MIT Press hanno rilasciato congiuntamente un nuovo libro, focalizzando anche una delle questioni →
Tra le qualità essenziali della fotografia risaltano il suo spazio limitato e l’unità, una caratteristica che è stata profondamente alterata dalle tecnologie digitali. Da quando la prima fotografia digitale, infatti, rappresenta informazioni visive più discrete anziché continue – come nei →
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
The report is a full color 32 pages, a4 format.
