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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21.11.01 Il keylogging di Carnivore.
L’FBI sta già sviluppando una versione migliorata di Carnivore, denominata ‘Enhanced Carnivore Project’, dove viene prevista l’opzione d’inserire un virus su una →
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21.11.01 Net_Working.
Net_Working è una mostra internazionale di net.art allestita fisicamente su grande schermo presso il Watershed Media Centre di Bristol (Inghilterra) e online, che pone ancora →
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21.11.01 Pittura digitale.
A Milano, presso la galleria Paolo Curti è stata allestita una mostra dell’americano Jeff Elrod, un pittore che usa il mouse del computer come →
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20.11.01 BMG sostituisce i cd della Imbruglia.
La BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) dopo aver immesso sul mercato inglese ‘White Lilies Island’, l’ultimo album di Natalie Imbruglia, proteggendolo →
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20.11.01 Net.art contro la guerra.
In tempi di guerra e di morti innocenti vale la pena ricordare il lavoro ‘My Boyfriend Came Back from the War‘ di →
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20.11.01 Net.art sonora interattiva.
L’olandese Peter Luining è uno dei più efficaci fra i net.artisti che mettono in pratica la relazione suono-forma grafica interagendo attivamente con l’utente. →
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20.11.01 Nomusic radio.
Nomusic radio presenta questa sera alle 23:00 ora italiana un concerto in streaming eseguito contemporaneamente in due località diverse della Francia da altrettanti musicisti, →
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20.11.01 Safe web dismette i servizi di free privacy.
SafeWeb ha smantellato il suo servizio gratuito di privacy che proteggeva le identità degli utenti e i loro →
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19.11.01 GovNet, l’Internet USA della sicurezza.
L’ultima proposta del neo-nominato Richard A. Clarke (vedi Per gli USA arrivano i superassalti informatici) consulente speciale per la cybersicurezza di →
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19.11.01 CLIC_LAB.
Questa sera alle 21:00, al Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, si terrà primo del ciclo di incontri CLIC_LAB, organizzati nell’ambito del Prato →
