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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20.07.01 Loveparade 2001.
Mentre a Genova si manifesta, a Berlino si balla. Inizia domani, con una settimana di ritardo sul previsto, la Loveparade del 2001 che promette →
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20.07.01 G8: per chi è a casa e online.
Chi non si è potuto recare a Genova per manifestare contro il G8, può seguire in diretta gli →
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20.07.01 Telematic Connections.
Si inaugura oggi all’Austin Museum of Art, ad Austin in Texas, la terza tappa di ‘Telematic Connections: the Virtual Embrace’, una mostra di arte →
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19.07.01 Loveweek in broadcast da Berlino.
Nella settimana che conduce alla Loveparade tre fra i più attivi club di Berlino (il Tresor, il Globus e il WMF) →
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19.07.01 Karaoke in affitto.
La Eatsleepmusic ha lanciato il Karaoke Jukebox Plus, il primo sistema di Karaoke per PC che consente di ‘affittare’ lo stream di brani →
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19.07.01 Ogg Vorbis: audio libero come l’email.
In una recente intervista Christopher Montgomery, a capo del team che sta sviluppando Ogg Vorbis (standard di compressione audio open →
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18.07.01 I file .nap.
Nella trasformazione da strumento di libero scambio a piattaforma di business ‘sicuro’, Napster ha definitivamente deliberato che i suoi file protetti non si →
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18.07.01 FBI arresta partecipante DefCon.
Il giorno dopo la chiusura del Def Con (vedi Def Con 9) l’FBI ha arrestato Dmitry Sklyarov, l’esperto di crittografia impiegato della →
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18.07.01 I cd anti-copia vanno in distorsione.
Il primo cd audio che non può essere copiato da un computer, prodotti secondo il sistema SafeAudio (vedi Safeaudio, ancora →
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17.07.01 Disturbi per apparecchi acustici.
Parecchi dei 28 milioni di americani, fra cui perloppiù giovani studenti, che soffrono di disturbi auditivi, sperimentano ormai quotidiane interferenze sullo spettro →
