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.
SuperCollider è un linguagio di programmazione per la sintesi audio in tempo reale. I codici possono essere controllati via MIDI, mouse, tavoletta grafica, e tramite un network. Compatibile con i formati più diffusi ha una sintassi simile →
Textual Tango è il nuovo lavoro di web art di Jessica Loseby, già fra le autrici di The Cyber Kitchen. Ad affollare lo schermo sono testi che si compongono mettendo in sequenza dinamica la disposizione delle parole →
Ha avuto il via il 17 maggio scorso la mostra-evento Kairòs – la virtualità dell’arte e la realtà delle immagini, presso il Centro d’arte contemporanea palazzo Piacentini di San Benedetto del Tronto. Aperta fino al 22 giugno, →
Un drum machine a vapore nell’Inghilterra della fine ottocento potrebbe far pensare alle ambientazioni fantastiche elaborate da William Gibson e Bruce Sterling in ‘The Different Engine’, trattasi invece di vero(simile) documento a prova dell’esistenza di una tale →
Si tiene alla University of Toronto la sesta edizione (dopo quelle del 2001 e 2002) di Subtle Technologies, il festival internazionale che cercan di sfumare il confine fra arte e scienza riunendo artisti e teorici. Quest’anno è →
– Venerdì 23 Maggio 2003: Al Bluecheese Factory a Roma, Juggling Academy con Pecoz, dj Indi, Paolino, Dais Golden Bass e Macro Marco, mc Lampadred + Ginko. Al Brancaleone, sempre nella capitale, quelli di Agata con l’Orchestra →
“In the beginning was the word…” e il verbo potrebbe essere un suono. Cymatics è il nome dato agli studi sperimentali che investigano sui molteplici fenomeni legati alle onde sonore. Pioniere in questa ricerca lo svizzero Hans →
S’inaugura il 22 maggio alla Kunsthalle di Vienna ATTACK! Art and War in the Media Age, una mostra dedicata all’aspetto mediatico dei conflitti, sempre più preponderante rispetto alla realtà del dramma di corpi mutilati e di vite →
La prima edizione del PEAM2003 Pescara Electronic Artists’ Meeting si sta svolgendo presso l’Ecoteca di Pescara. Organizzata da Artificialia, la manifestazione è pensata soprattutto come luogo d’incontro e di scambio di esperienze, mettendo a contatto una folta →
Con una decisione inattesa la direzione del Walker Art Center, uno dei maggiori musei americani dedicato alle arti visuali, performative e mediatiche, ha dismesso il programma d’iniziative sui nuovi media, licenziando il suo curatore Steve Dietz. Un →
