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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27.06.01 Aimster per Mac.
La beta version per Macintosh del client di Aimster (uno dei concorrenti del post-Napster) è liberamente scaricabile. Nonostante alcune iniziali limitazioni dà già →
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27.06.01 Napster: accordi con label europee.
Grazie ad un accordo con l’inglese Association of Independent Music (AIM), Napster licenzierà musica proveniente da 150 labels britanniche independenti. L’accordo →
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27.06.01 Sonic Recoil.
S’inaugura oggi allo Skaterham Skate Park di Caterham-on-the-Hill (Inghilterra) Sonic Recoil, un’installazione sonora interattiva di Vicky Isley e Paul Smith. Situata nel locale Skaterham →
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26.06.01 Accordo FullAudio-EMI.
A distanza di dieci giorni dall’accordo con la BMG, la FullAudio ha incassato anche la firma della EMi per il suo sistema di cache →
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26.06.01 Beehive.
Nuovo numero della rivista di letteratura elettronica Beehive, ricco come al solito, con lavori che sfruttano la narrazione ipertestuale in modalità diverse, dal cinico banner →
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25.06.01 Copiare un cd in tre minuti (2).
Anche la TDK non si è fatta attendere per sfornare un nuovo masterizzatore + cd-r vergine certificato, entrambi alla →
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25.06.01 Net-Biliardino giapponese.
Baby Play è un’installazione presentata da Shu Lea Cheang all’InterCommunication Center di Tokyo che interfaccia un biliardino reale con Internet. Il biliardino è costruito →
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25.06.01 Tassa sui masterizzatori tedeschi.
Un procedimento legale si è concluso in Germania con la richiesta nei confronti della Hewlett-Packard del pagamento di una tassa su tutti →
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22.06.01 Legge editoria: ultimi giorni per la petizione.
La petizione di Punto Informatico contro la nuova legge sull’editoria chiuderà domenica. Ultimi giorni quindi per firmarla prima che →
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22.06.01 Hackmeeting 01.
Si apre oggi al centro sociale Auro di Catania l’annuale Hackmeeting, appuntamento imperdibile d’incontro di tutte le realtà che praticano un’uso critico e cosciente →
