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.
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262047470, English, 284 pages, 2022, USA
The famous Shannon-Weaver model revealed noise as a crucial disturbance in a communication channel. The role of noise now seems to have been replaced by bias →
Choreographic Camouflage is the result of a collaboration between architect and director Liam Young and choreographer Jacob Jonas in the form of a dance performance and film. It is an artistic response to new technology developed in China that automatically →
Api, farfalle, vespe, coleotteri e altri impollinatori essenziali per la riproduzione delle piante sono alla base dei nostri ecosistemi. Nel processo di produzione alimentare, oltre il 75% delle principali colture agrarie dipende a vari livelli dell’impollinazione operata da questi animali. →
Internet Teapot, English, 20 to 40 pages, 2020, The Netherlands
This zine was conceived just before the pandemic and has outlasted it. It was co-created during workshops in Barcelona, Berlin and Linz. The editors were able to →
Computational writing in the post-digital era is as systemic as computational imaging, just not as visible. The algorithmic elaboration of texts by big systems and platforms extracts sense and adapts it to standards and rules, without us noticing. In “Codependent →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190226992, English, 712 pages, 2018, UK
Even arguably stemming from concepts like “generative” and “automatic” what is exactly meant by “Algorithmic Music” ? The two editors of this sumptuous anthology give a specific definition: →
Attachment esamina la mancanza di comunicazioni casuali che si presenta insieme alla questione che riguarda l’automazione e l’apprendimento delle macchine, prendendo in considerazione la nostra attrazione verso verso l’automazione. Colombini, ispirato dalle macchine dello scultore svizzero Tinguely, ha creato una →
University Of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 978-0226002736, English, 328 pages, 2014, USA
Tra gli aspetti trascurati della “digitalizzazione di tutto” vi è anche la percezione dei colori sugli schermi e il modo in cui vengono prodotti (o – più precisamente – →
Lo
scienziato britannico Alan Turing è stato un matematico, un logico
ed un esperto di crittografia, oltre ad essere considerato uno dei
più importanti studiosi e ricercatori nel campo della matematica
applicata e della seminale informatica. Lo scienziato diventò noto
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