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.
MetaMix è un freeware programmato da Jason Freeman capace di remixare un qualsiasi brano musicale secondo un preciso algoritmo. Disponibile in download gratuito per Windows 98-XP e Mac OS X, si rivela uno strumento di composizione e →
Geo.Graphic è un software che si ispira ai programmi di investigazione criminale utilizzati in ambito militare. Dopo l’11 settembre, il francese Joachim Lapotre ha dato forma visiva ai diversi report della NSA sui fuggitivi e latitanti, realizzando →
S’inaugura il 2 Aprile al New Yorker Hotel la tredicesima Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, la conferenza che fa il punto sulle garanzie di privacy legate all’uso delle tecnologie. Diversi gli argomenti affrontati a cominciare →
Annotations è la prima opera su web di Glenn Ligon, un artista che ha a cuore la cultura degli afroamericani e che fino ad ora aveva usato tecniche tradizionali di condivisione di materiali. Così aveva fatto nell’ultimo →
by Alessandro Ludovico.
[This text is part of the ‘adonnaM.mp3 – Filesharing, the Hidden Revolution in the Internet‘ exhibition curated by Franziska Nori and the digitalcraft.org team into the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, opened to the public from →
Pur essendo frequenti le evoluzioni estetiche e tecniche dell’hardware musicale (dalle casse d’amplificazione agli amplificatori), poche sono le innovazioni che concretamente promettono di cambiare le abitudinarie categorie dell’utente. Fra queste certamente si colloca SoundVu, una tecnologia affascinante →
In un’assurda spirale di inutile violenza il conflitto in Iraq va avanti, riportato da televisioni e giornali in un’altrettanto assurda gara per chi urla più forte titoli di terrore e raccapriccio. In rete la ramificazione di informazioni →
Tuboid ? un software che genera tunnel in continua mutazione e modellazioni trimensionali della forma strutturale del tunnel stesso visto dall’esterno. Il programma, di cui si pu˜ scaricare gratuitamente una demo per Windows per la generazione ‘interna’, →
Realizzato dal canadese Babel, twentythree è un video lineare interattivo in flash che prende le mosse dalla digitalizzazione di alcune immagini e sequenze dell’omonimo anno del novecento. Pur ricordando gli studi sul sequencing filmico di ‘You are →
Ravi Jain usava già in tempi non sospetti le caselle vocali come strumento compositivo, campionando i suoni dalla strada attraverso economiche telefonate, effettuate dagli apparecchi pubblici. Il concetto che sta dietro ‘Concerto for Voicemail #1‘, quindi è →
