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.
Esiste uno spazio sul web per confessare il mai detto: che si tratti di un rimpianto, di una speranza, di un desiderio o di una paura, PostSecret accoglie qualsiasi contributo purché sia genuino e non ancora →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262182424
I significati che si estrinsecano dagli agglomerati di interconnessioni testuali sono uno dei reali linguaggi del web, dove i link e la loro densità, sublimata dalle →
book – ZRC Publishing/Revolver – ISBN 3937577408
Marina Grzinic, artista e teorica dei media,
L’ottavo hackmeeting italiano si tiene a Napoli, al centro sociale TerraTerra dal 17 al 19 giugno. L’Hackmeeting 2005, dopo le edizioni del 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 e 2004, si ripresenta in tutto il →
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I virus culturali, ossia quelle pratiche che riescono a far attecchire socialmente contenuti fuori dal ‘rumore’ di fondo quotidiano, sono una prerogativa degli artisti più consci dei meccanismi della comunicazione e più scaltri nel camminare nel →
Anche quest’anno la serratissima tre giorni di musica elettronica e arte digitale di Barcellona si svolge nel solito weekend traboccante di proposte, dal 16 al 18 giugno. Il Sonar 2005, infatti, non cambia nella struttura →
In maniera quasi divertita il gruppo londinese , costituito da artisti e designers formatisi al Royal College of Arts, inventa oggetti ‘intelligenti’. Uno di questi ‘devices’ è il TV Predator, all’apparenza uninnocuo quadretto, in realtà →
La codifica di lavori concettuali in codice di programmazione è una particolare forma di ‘digitalizzazione’ che implica passaggi mediatici (ossia da un medium materiale ad un altro immateriale) non trascurabili, pur se al contempo ne sublima →
The Sarai Program, ISBN 819014295X
Giunti al non banale traguardo di un lustro di pubblicazioni, i Sarai Reader costituiscono un importante riferimento e uno degli esempi più brillanti di criticismo capace di ragionare →
I cicli vitali dell’informazione, e le relazioni fra dimensione personale e dimensione pubblica che essi innescano, costituiscono un’ecologia dei dati nel loro eterno flusso informativo che sfiora o attraversa le nostre menti. WorldTree di Raewyn Turner →
