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.
by Alessandro Ludovico
What, in your opinion, is the worst danger for the free software, and what is the strongest point that still makes it worth for millions of people?
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04.01.02 Mandiberg, saldi di net art concettuale.
Fra i lavori di net art concettuale, quello di Michael Mandiberg ha rappresentato un esempio eclatante. L’artista infatti aveva messo →
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04.01.02 Net art letteraria: poesie per Echelon.
‘Poem for Echelon‘ dello sloveno Jaka Zeleznikar è un lavoro di net art letteraria che coniuga attivismo, estetica ascii e →
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04.01.02 The Island, ecco le palme.
Continua lo sviluppo dell’isola del gruppo italiano di net artisti torinesi 80/81. Il nuovo spazio codificato è un palm grove, ossia →
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04.01.02 Toysrus.com condannata per violazione della privacy.
Toysrus.com, il sito di giocattoli e videogame che vende di più in assoluto ha accettato di pagare 50.000 dollari allo →
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04.01.02 Il trojan dentro Kazaa, BearShare, LimeWire e Grokster.
Un troiano (‘trojan horse’, programma che sembra fare qualcosa e invece fa tutt’altro), è stato individuato nelle versioni →
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03.01.02 Indymedia Italia, meeting a Perugia.
S’inaugura oggi a Perugia l’Italyindymedia-meeting 0.2, seconda assemblea italiana del più importante media center indipendente (inter)nazionale. Oggi si parla di ‘Autismo →
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03.01.02 Infome, software di net art per mappare la rete.
Una delle sperimentazioni di net art più interessanti dell’anno appena conclusosi è stata messa a punto dalla →
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03.01.02 Bush consente l’esportazione di computer veloci.
Annullando un divieto figlio della guerra fredda, l’amministrazione Bush cerca di far rialzare le industrie informatiche americane dalla recessione consentedogli →
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03.01.02 Nuovo Napster, l’anteprima.
Sul sito di Napster è possibile dare un’occhiata all’anteprima della nuova versione del software, che viene promessa come definitiva ‘all’inizio del 2002′. Non →
