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.
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13.11.03 Faith Converter, theologic plagiarism.
In this era of globalization of commerce and disneyfication of culture, religious differences are hard to tame even for a market which →
Si apre il 12 novembre all’Usine C di Montreal l’Elektra Festival 03, una manifestazione dedicata a musica elettronica, digital imagery e robotica, che ogni anno assembla un accattivante programma di installazione e performance. Continuando la tradizione delle →
‘Docs from the darkest side of the empire’ è il sottotitolo di questa produzione dell’archivio OVNI (Observatori De Video No Identificat) di Barcellona, un’impressionante raccolta documentativa di propaganda militare e tecnologica che descrive con il suo stesso →
Seguendo le ultime tendenze estive newyorchesi anche a Londra c’è una serata mensile dedicata ai possessori di iPod che vogliono cimentarsi come dj, o, come recita l’ultimo neologismo, come ‘mp3j’. Al Dreambagsjaguarshoes club, infatti viene ospitato il →
L’aspetto dell’hardware ha una componente fortemente simbolica nella rappresentazione dei suoi contenuti, e i costruttori di macchine e riproduttori sonori l’hanno capito da tempo. Reinterpretando quest’assioma gli artisti Mark Argo e Ahmi Wolf hanno creato Bass-Station, →
il concetto di riciclo applicato all’immateriale può far sorridere, in quanto effimero da un punto di vista fisico. Ma a ben guardare il riuso di idee e routine algoritmiche è già una pratica consolidata nella programmazione del →
Come riportato dal The Times of India, in risposta al blocco da parte delle autorità dell’accesso agli Yahoo Groups è stato indetto un cyber satyagraha, ossia una forma di protesta da poter portare avanti per email. Sugli →
Una compilation commemorativa tipicamente paga un tributo di riconoscimento ad un artista, un evento o un concetto particolarmente importante, ma capovolgendo questo meccanismo si può inscenare una spettacolare protesta che abbia come simbolo dell’attacco proprio il protagonista →
La macchina della verità per come è conosciuta al grande pubblico è avviata al tramonto. La febbrile attività del poligrafo che decretava la veridicità o meno delle affermazioni dell’esaminato sta per lasciare spazio ad uno screening dell’attività →
Una Nano guitar, ossia una chitarra costruita a scala nanometrica, è stata creata da Harold G. Craighead e Dustin W. Carr all’americana Cornell University. È lunga circa 10 micrometri, ossia come una cellula umana ed è dotata →
