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.
I gadget e le tecnologie personali vengono spesso rappresentate nella fittizia narrativa pubblicitaria come costruiti per il proprio piacere. Ma le situazioni idealizzate e senza la minima sbavatura degli spot non si realizzano mai. Molto più efficaci →
Proclamati i vincitori del festival russo Machinista, che si svolge a Perm (Russia), e che quest’anno è stato intitolato: ‘Artificial Intelligence in Art: Faces of Machinic Ingenuity’, focalizzandosi sull’interazione uomo-macchina nelle scienze umanistiche, nell’arte e nella cultura. →
Essere spiati dall’FBi negli ultimi mesi significa probabilmente avere a che fare col software IntelliFind della newyorchese Verint Systems, che nei comunicati stampa sbandiera incredibili capacitˆ di sorveglianza. Il software funziona controllando la linea telefonica sospetta attraverso →
Prendendo le mosse dallo Stansford University’s Center Of Computer Research in Music and Acoustic, nella California della beat generation, ispirato dagli studi di un altro ricercatore dei Bell Laboratories, Max Mathews, e grazie al suo supporto, un →
Finanziato dal Walker Art Center, il prestigioso centro culturale del Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are East African cities è un’opera su web di Julie Mehretu, artist in residence della stessa istituzione. L’artista, di origini etiopi, ha →
Il celebre rapper Ice T ha deciso di mettere in vendita il suo nuovo album (‘Repossession’) attraverso i servizi ‘sicuri’ di Kazaaa, una delle piattaforme più popolari per gli scambi peer-to-peer. L’artista è stato uno dei primi →
Neuordnung è una stringata raccolta di immagini deteriorate da una manipolazione del loro codice. Benjamin Fischer le ha create intervenendo sulla composizione dei loro files, squilibrando quelli che sono le coordinate di lettura e composizione interna dei →
Il software programmato per fini non produttivi, ma estetici, sociali e concettuali riveste un ruolo sempre più importante nello scenario dell’arte elettronica. Ma come tutti gli argomenti d’avanguardia ha bisogno di approfondimenti e dibattiti per poter definire →
Fra i tanti avvoltoi della guerra, si può annoverare anche la Sony Entertainment che ha brevettato la frase ‘Shock and Awe’ già dopo pochi giorni di guerra (il 21 marzo) per spianare la strada all’omonimo videogioco in →
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11.04.03 Weekender: Blog conference, TV comunitaria, King Britt, Matthew Herbert.
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– Venerd“ 11 aprile a Torino, all’ Aula Magna Istituto Avogadro, l’importante convegno TV Spazzatura? →
