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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27.02.03 Media Arts Festival a Tokyo.
Vengono assegnati il 27 febbraio al Metropolitan Museum of Photography di Tokyo i premi del Media Arts Festival, una manifestazione che →
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27.02.03 Disembodied Voices, le voci al telefono fra pubblico e privato.
Il labile confine dello spazio pubblico e di quello privato nelle conversazioni telefoniche è un terreno →
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27.02.03 Bubl-space, il silenzio immaginato.
Può esistere un gadget tecnologico che ci fa assaporare un raro silenzio programmato, immersi in rumori, conversazioni altrui e intereferenze quotidiane, ridandoci →
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27.02.03 Metapod digital arts festival.
Si è aperto il 27 febbraio a Birmingham (UK) il terzo Metapod digital arts festival che porta in questa città i lavori →
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27.02.03 Telecamere di controllo nelle aule scolastiche.
Un articolo di BBC News rivela che la città di Manchester ha annunciato una richiesta di fondi pubblici per un →
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26.02.03 Inflect, rivista di letteratura elettronica.
Dopo le ottime uscite degli ultimi anni di Beehive, ecco affacciarsi sul web un’altra rivista di letteratura elettronica con opere interattive →
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26.02.03 Alluvium, radio peer-to-peer.
Alluvium è un progetto presentato all’annuale CodeCon e promette di diventare un altro standard nella condivisione di dati online. Descritto dal suo autore →
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26.02.03 RTTY-art, i nonni della ascii-art.
Prima delle foto osè fatte di caratteri per Commodore 64, prima delle signature di Fidonet e dei newsgroup di ASCII-art c’era →
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26.02.03 TaggerTrap, reprimere i graffitisti.
I graffiti stradali sono considerati dai benpensati una classica forma di vandalismo, in luogo delle comprovare caratteristiche d’arte di strada che essi →
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25.02.03 Hydan, nascondere messaggi nel codice eseguibile.
Mentre la steganografia consente di nascondere messaggi alterando impercettibilmente un’immagine, un nuovo approccio che si basa su una tecnica un →
