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.
Si tiene il 2, 3 e 4 Aprile al laboratorio sociale occupato Burrida di Genova il settimo Hackmeeting 2004, uno dei pochi appuntamenti imperdibili capace di radunare la comunità controculturale digitale del nostro paese. Anticipata per la →
Il centro culturale SARAI di New Delhi (India), dedicato all’indagine delle culture urbane svoge il 2 e 3 aprile una serie di workshop su Language, Culture and Urban Publics che si propongono di esplorare le modalità inedite, →
Dopo l’ultima edizione a Campobasso nel 2002 Digital Is Not Analog, il festival di arte e hacktivism digitale organizzato dagli 0100101110101101.ORG approda al CCCB di Barcellona. Intitolata The Influencers, festival of culture jamming, modified technologies and radical →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262050730
L’individuazione della struttura di dati che descrive una persona attraverso i suoi atti pubblici, è la ghiotta cuccagna non solo dei professionisti del marketing, ma sempre più anche dei gendarmi del →
Dopo il clamoroso caso del Grey Album e il notevole numero di adesioni al conseguente Grey Tuesday, comincia a coalizzarsi un nutrito e agguerrito fronte di lotta per difendere l’utilizzo artistico dei campioni, e contrastare la tutela →
Uno degli aspetti interessanti della sperimentazione con molteplici media è la possibilità di giocare con i linguaggi (iconici o comunque rappresentativi) per trarne interessanti ibridi, che riescono a mettere, seppur momentaneamente, in crisi le acquisite abitudini d’uso. →
Dal 1 al 3 aprile, il magazine rebel:art, connecting art & activism organizza a Berlino il Festival FFFFFF#000001, che coinvolge numerosi artisti e attivisti della scena internazionale. Diversi spazi di Torstrasse, celebre strada per la vita notturna →
Crispin Jones, vincitore della sezione ‘Digital Art [Interactive] Division’ al Media Arts Festival di Tokio del 2003 con l’installazione ‘Social Mobiles’ e autore di altri brillanti progetti come ‘An Invisible Force’ (scrivanie che rispondono alle nostre domande) →
Un incontro simbiotico di frequenze. Questo è quello che risalta da questo cd+, che comprende la collaborazione fra gli australiani Oren Ambarchi (honorary mention ad Ars Electronica 2003) e Martin NG (avant garde turntablist) più due video →
Una delle caratteristiche peculiari del plagiarismo musicale è quella di avere un obiettivo comune, protestare contro l’assurdità della protezione ad oltranza del copyright, e al tempo stesso una notevole varietà di strategie e realizzazioni. Con l’efficacissimo slogan →
