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.
È in corso al Round House Community Centre di Vancouver l’edizione 2003 del New forms Festival, che intitola la sua terza edizione ‘inter[sec/ac]tion’, ossia arte che interseca i media e le discipline interagendo con gli artisti, gli →
“La cultura dell’interfaccia nei nuovi media ispira diverse forme di scambi d’informazione.” Con questo principio Howard Goldkrand e Beth Coleman hanno creato Vernacular Live from Electronic America, un software per Mac OS X, che pone all’interno di →
Mondo 2000
Per conoscere i dettagli del design delle carceri, delle strategie di riabilitazione dei detenuti, delle modalità più proficue per attivare la costruzione e l’organizzazione delle prigioni, è nata l’European Corrections Corporation. Una società privata per pianificare prigioni →
L’estetica video dell’elettronica ha ormai almeno due lustri di classici da sfoggiare, grazie all’evoluzione della computer grafica tridimensionale e alla preponderanza dell’elettronica in tutte le sfaccettature del pop. Il gruppo inglese di Toxi, già autore dell’esperimento The →
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31.07.03 Addio St. Jude (ex Mondo 2000).
Mondo 2000 è stata la rivista che ha avuto l’innegabile pregio di scoperchiare il vaso →
‘L’arte nell’era della sua riproducibilità tecnica’ di Walter Benjamin è certamente uno dei testi più citati negli ambiti dell’arte elettronica contemporanea, proprio per la sua profetica visione dei processi di smaterializzazione e infinita copia a cui possono →
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Facendo seguito ad una prima profetica edizione del 1989, Information Anxiety 2 è il consolidamenteo di un’analisi a trecentosessanta gradi delle modalità di trasmissione e catalogazione dell’informazione che tenta di fornire bussole e →
Provocatoriamente intitolato ‘No Concept’ si è aperto il 25 luglio il Garage 2003 Festival che si tiene a Stralsund (Germania). I curatori hanno cercato stavolta di riflettere uno dei temi più importanti di questi tempi, ossia la →
Con l’azzeccato slogan ‘file sharing it’s music to our ears‘, l’Electronic Frontier Foundation sta orientando molti dei suoi sforzi sulle campagne e sulle cause legali in difesa dello scambio paritario di files musicali. Certamente incoraggiati dalla vittoria →
