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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21.06.01 RealAudio-Microsoft scontro e spiate.
Novità importanti annunciate alla ‘Streaming Media West Conference’ in questi giorni. Due diversi standard, secondo un copione che segue l’informatica da vent’anni, →
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20.06.01 Gates: “GPL come Pac-Man”.
Nel disperato tentativo di bloccare l’onda di piena del movimento Open Source e delle licenze libere GPL, Bill Gates ha definito queste →
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20.06.01 Remix contest per Exciter.
Presso il sito di Acid Planet è attivo un concorso di remix per due brani tratti dall’ultimo album dei Depeche Mode ‘Exciter’. →
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20.06.01 Masterizzazioni bloccate da EMI.
La EMI ha firmato un’intesa con la Roxio, produttrice dei più usati programmi per masterizzare come ‘Easy CD Creator’ per PC e →
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19.06.01 Business della musica online.
Secondo uno studi dell’Informa Media Group il totale delle vendite di musica online si decuplicherà entro il 2006, sfiorando i 10 miliardi →
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19.06.01 Sesso per vedere Madonna.
I biglietti per i concerti di Madonna a Berlino (in programma da oggi fino a sabato sono stati esauriti nel giro di →
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18.06.01 Copiare un cd in tre minuti.
La Verbatim Europe ha rilasciato il primo cd-r certificato per la scrittura a velocità 24x, il DataLifePlus, che, grazie alla →
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18.06.01 OggVorbis 1.0.
Rilasciata finalmente la versione ‘release candidate’ (una sorta di beta) versione 1.0 di OggVorbis, il codec di compressione audio concorrente allo standard mpeg e →
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18.06.01 Snow Blossom House.
Snow Blossom House è una rassegna di arte interattiva erotica, che collezione anime dolls, videogame, shockwave game e creazioni in 3D. Curata da →
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15.06.01 Arcipelago 2001.
L’edizione di quest’anno di Arcipelago, festival internazionale di cortometraggi e nuove immagini, comincia oggi a Roma e proseguirà con un fitto calendario di proiezioni →
