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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13.12.01 Raid contro i warez negli USA.
Una serie di blitz sono cominciati ieri negli USA contro il network di scambio di warez (software copiato) ‘DoD’ (Drink →
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13.12.01 Very Cyberfeminist International.
Organizzato dal collettivo Old Boys Network, comincia oggi al Lichtmesz-Kino di Amburgo (Germania) ‘Very Cyberfeminist International‘, una tre giorni di mostre e conferenze →
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13.12.01 Webcast masterizzati.
Il Digital Club Network è stato fondato nel 1998 come propaggine dell’online music festival organizzato con lo stesso nome. Ma la società di Andrew →
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12.12.01 Interview Yourself.
Interview Yourself è un altro parto della fervida mente di Amy Alexander, fondatrice del progetto plagiarist.org. Parte del progetto ‘New Millenium Disorder’, Interview Yourself →
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12.12.01 Generative Art.
Prende oggi il via la quarta International Conference on Generative Art al Politecnico di Milano, dedicata quest’anno a ‘Space, Music and Poetry, Scenarios of →
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12.12.01 5 tracce gratis di Aphex Twin.
Dal sito della Warp è possibile scaricare cinque delle tracce contenute nell’ultimo album di Aphex Twin ‘Drukqs’. →
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12.12.01 Aura Digitale.
Le esibizioni pubbliche di Ansuman Biswas sono delle ‘session’ di meditazione, ma lungi dall’essere oscure e monotone, diventano spettacolari grazie ad un apparato tecnologico →
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12.12.01 SafeWeb, HushMail+PGP.
– SafeWeb sta valutando l’ipotesi di reinvestire nei suoi prodotti di anonimato, dopo le migliaia di telefonate e richieste che ha ricevuto da quando →
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11.12.01 Net.art italiana: FTPermutations.
Il gruppo italiano degli 0100101110101101.ORG ha causato con la sua performance una mezza rivoluzione all’interno del Web Art Festival di Seoul (vedi Korea →
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11.12.01 Goner, Information Guerrilla.
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– Arrestati venerdì i quattro teenager israeliani sospettati della creazione del virus Goner. Avrebbero confessato di aver creato il worm, che →
