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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30.10.02 Looplabs, web remix.
Vincitore nella categoria musicale di uno degli ultimi Flashforward festival, Looplabs è un eccezionale mixer realizzato in flash, che implementa funzioni notevoli per →
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30.10.02 Endnode, net art cartacea.
L’interazione fra la rete e il mondo reale (ossia fra la comunicazione incorporea e quella fisica) diventa sempre più una questione di →
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30.10.02 Laser pointer per accecare temporaneamente le telecamere di sorveglianza.
Attraverso un laser pointer da un euro è possibile mimentizzarsi almeno temporaneamente dall’invadenza delle telecamere di controllo. →
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30.10.02 Part Two, vjing televisivo antagonista.
Il 30 ottobre, a partire dalle 20.00 (ora di New York) si terrà PART TWO (a 24-hour networked event on world →
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29.10.02 Inquinamento da telefoni cellulari.
Gli ambientalisti lanciano un nuovo allarme: aumenta sempre più il numero degli abbonati ai cellulari e proporzionalmente si verifica un incremento dell’inquinamento →
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29.10.02 ISEA 2002, l’Orai del digitale.
L’ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) ha scelto come sede per la sua edizione 2002, inaugurata il 27 ottobre, la città →
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29.10.02 Suoni dallo spazio profondo.
Don Gurnett è un fisico della University of Iowa che sta aiutando i Kronos Quartet a costruire una performance comprensiva delle registrazioni →
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29.10.02 Viper 2002, film online e non.
Si è concluso il 27 ottobre il Viper festival di Zurigo, che anche quest’anno ha articolato la sua offerta culturale →
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25.10.02 BLI, ipertesti sperimentali italiani.
BLI è una raccolta in divenire di ipertesti che indagano le possibilità retoriche dei meccanismi dinamici del web e delle sue possibilità →
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25.10.02 The SIMS online: la città dei cheesburger e dei pentium.
Il videogame “The Sims”, celebre strategy che ha fatto la storia dei videogiochi, entra strutturalmente in →
