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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15.10.01 AsSoLi europea.
L’AsSoLi, l’Associazione italiana per il Software Libero ha aderito all’associazione europea Free Software Foundation Europe. L’AsSoLi ultimamente si sta impegnando per una revisione della →
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15.10.01 Napster, mp3Pro, vendite e altre storie.
– Vendite in calo. Secondo la IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) le vendite musicali mondiali su supporti fisici →
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12.10.01 Maap/Extreme.
S’inaugura oggi a Brisbane, in Australia, la quarta edizione del Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, un festival d’arte dei nuovi media, quest’anno dedicata al tema ‘Excess’, →
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12.10.01 Elektronic.
Da oggi fino al 18 ottobre al Barbican centre di Londra si terrà ‘Elektronic‘, festival di musica elettronica dedicato all’enorme influenza avuta da Karlheinz Stockhausen →
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12.10.01 CTRL [SPACE] .
Si apre oggi allo ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie) di Karlsruhe, in Germania, CTRL [SPACE], una mostra di opere e performance di →
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12.10.01 Presentazione ‘I motori di ricerca nel caos della rete’.
Domani alle 17:00 presso l’Auditorium del Palazzo Pretorio di Piazza Farinata degli Uberti ad Empoli incontro con →
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12.10.01 Servecity.
Allo storico centro Bauhaus di Dessau, in Germania, oggi e domani si svolgerà il simposio internazionale ‘Servecity, living and working in the interactive city‘. L’attenzione →
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12.10.01 TGarden.
Nel weekend al Werkstad Las Palmas di Rotterdam in Olanda, sarà inaugurata l’installazione TGarden degli artisti FoAM and sponge. Consiste in un parco giochi interattivo →
– Venerdì a Roma, al centro sociale Brancaleone
.Freq Nasty (nella foto), big beat .uk
– Venerdì a Massafra (Taranto), al Mind’ Rron
.Let’s dance, dark-wave, electro con proiezioni video .i
– Sabato →
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11.10.01 Extrasensory.
Comincia oggi e durerà una settimana l’Extrasensory Festival di Londra, che presenterà eventi di arte sonora che usa la luce (neon, sensori luminosi, fotografie) per →
