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.
La materializzazione delle interfacce e il rendere ‘fisici’ gli elementi astratti che fanno saldamente parte del nostro quotidiano è uno dei temi ricorrenti nell’arte dei nuovi media, che in tal modo (ri)costruisce con →
cd+dvd – Ninja Tune
The language of videoclips has undergone many semiotical revolutions in the 90s, the years when the possibility of video editing landed on home computers. The consequential big increase in the number →
Uno dei risultati che l’intelligenza artificiale è riuscita ad ottenere in tanti anni di studi è una discreta generazione evolutiva di relazioni fra diverse entità. Questo riconoscendo caratteristiche comuni nelle stesse entità sulle quali basare un →
L’estetica della scienza può assumere aspetti significativi al di là della spettacolarità delle immagini di una galassia o di un’immagine microscopica adeguatamente colorata. Il significato di un’adeguata visualizzazione dei processi non è meramente didattico, →
Niente a che vedere con Mecca Cola & Co, bibite frizzanti che si piazzano sul mercato come prodotti alternativi al monopolio statunitense arrivando in taluni casi anche a devolvere percentuali dell’incasso a organizzazioni →
I motori di ricerca sono entrati prepotentemente nelle nostre vite e nel nostro immaginario. Grazie all’utilizzo di tali preziosi strumenti riusciamo infatti a saltare da un’informazione all’altra, apparentemente senza alcuno sforzo. Tale onnipervasiva presenza di Google →
Quanto la privacy sia un tema fondamentale per le comunicazioni elettroniche lo si vede chiaramente nelle pratiche e negli episodi quotidiani, come quello clamoroso scoperto solo ieri dai responsabili dei serveri di Autistici e Inventati. I →
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,
