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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27.05.02 vOluptuary, pitture robotiche.
Presso la galleria Universal Concepts Unlimited di New York si svolge fino al 3 giugno vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology, una mostra di opere →
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23.05.02 I love you, virus in mostra a Francoforte.
S’inaugura il 23 maggio al mak.frankfurt di Francoforte (Germania) I love you, computer_virus_hacker_culture una mostra curata da Franziska →
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22.05.02 Post-media publishing, la stampa dei nuovi media.
La stampa e la cultura digitale, come le diverse culture nazionali hanno creato la loro media culture su carta? →
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20.05.02 Log-Book, la letterarietà dei log.
La narrativa elettronica si è sempre confrontata con i sistemi automatici, dai primi esperimenti di generazione automatica di testi negli anni →
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20.05.02 Dominio sottratto per difendersi dall’inceneritore.
LuskPeople è un gruppo di attivisti irlandesi che è riuscito a registrare il dominio dell’osteggiata ditta che sta per costruire un →
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20.05.02 The Covers project, database dei brani reinterpretati.
Con l’inverosimile inflazionarsi del mercato musicale, le ‘cover’ sono diventate un vero e proprio genere musicale a sè stante, →
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20.05.02 Velvet strike, graffiti anti-militaristi per il videogame Counter-Strike.
Velvet-Strike è una piccola collezione di graffiti digitali, da usare sui muri, soffitti e pavimenti del network shooter →
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17.05.02 La biometria delle impronte digitali ingannata da una giuggiola.
Tsutomu Matsumoto, uno studente laureato alla Yokohama National University ha presentato all’International Telecommunications Union’s Workshop on Security →
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17.05.02 Netstrike contro Radio Vaticana.
È cominciato alle 9;00 del 17 maggio il netstrike contro il sito di Radio Vaticana, sponsorizzato dalla trasmissione televisiva ‘Le Iene’ per →
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17.05.02 Onedotzero6, video e computer animation allo stato dell’arte.
S’inaugura il 17 maggio all’ICA di Londra la sesta edizione di Onedotzero un festival di video e computer →
