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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02.12.02 Vagamundo: uno street-game digitale sull’immigrazione clandestina.
Nato nell’estate del 2002, in piena campagna statunitense anti-terrorismo, il game Vagamundo – a Migrant’s Tale, di Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, →
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29.11.02 Boxplorer, il layout dei siti come web art.
Boxplorer è l’ultima provocatoria opera di Andy Deck, che tramite un’applicazione con interfaccia web mette a nudo il →
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29.11.02 Buy Nothing Day, sciopero dei consumi per un giorno.
Si tiene il 29 novembre il /Buy Nothing Day, una giornata di mobilitazione organizzata dagli attivisti canadesi →
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29.11.02 Artmedia 8, simposio sull’arte elettronica.
S’inaugura il 29 novembre al Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur e all’Ecole Normale Supérieure di Parigi, Artmedia VIII, poderoso simposio organizzato →
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29.11.02 Oblique Strategies online.
Create nel 1975 dal musicista e produttore elettronico Brian Eno e dall’artista britannico Peter Schmidt, le Oblique Strategies si presentano in forma di →
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29.11.02 Weekender: Xploding Plastix, The Acid Mothers Temple, Tim Baker, Highfish, Suv.
Al Link, di Bologna, Giovedì 28 novembre, live degli Xploding Plastix, gruppo norvegese, elettronica e →
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28.11.02 Attivisti salvano i cybercafè madrileni.
Ciberpunk è un sito di attivisti spagnoli che ha ottenuto un’importante vittoria nel libero accesso alla rete. I membri redazionali del →
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28.11.02 Stop Motion Studies, l’animazione a scatti nell’era del web.
Le tecniche di stop-motion sono state utilizzate storicamente per lavori di animazioni, soprattutto negli anni settanta nei →
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28.11.02 Ultrasound, festival di musica visual/elettronica e sperimentazioni varie.
Ultrasound è un festival di tre giorni che si tiene al The Media Centre di Huddersfield (UK) e →
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28.11.02 Waste of Time, file html come pixel.
Waste Of Time è un software che avuta in input una frasi di massimo dodici lettere genera 10.000 pagine →
