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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26.04.01 Cicli 4, rassegna di dj.
La quarta edizione della rassegna di arte contemporanea ‘Cicli‘ è dedicata quest’anno alla figura del dj. Si tiene nei locali e →
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26.04.01 European Media Art Festival.
Inaugurata ieri l’edizione 2001 dello European Media Art Festival a Osnabruck, in Germania. Ospita alcune installazioni fra cui una di Jordan Crandall →
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26.04.01 Mixing visuali a Firenze.
A Firenze oggi presso H2O2, via Ghibellina 47r, la serata Electroboogaloo ospita Discogirotto Vs Compl8 [dj set] con immagini e suoni mixati →
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26.04.01 Poevisioni Elettroniche.
Da oggi a sabato presso la Cineteca Comunale di Rimini sarà ospitata la rassegna ‘Poevisioni Elettroniche, poesia videovisiva internazionale negli anni 90′, a cura →
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24.04.01 Diamanti cruenti.
Un sito d’arte che contestualizza una denuncia forte con un’interfaccia da ecommerce potrebbe forse essere definito di hacktivism. Ad ogni modo ‘Diamonds and You‘ →
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24.04.01 Napster, nuovi filtri e Winamp.
Napster ha annunciato che sta per adottare un sistema di ‘acoustic fingerprinting’, ossia di riconoscimento univoco dei brani basato su caratteristiche →
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24.04.01 Offensiva sulle radio online.
La RIAA ha ottenuto un’altra sentenza del U.S. Copyright Office che obbliga i webcaster online al pagamento di royalties sui brani trasmessi →
A smentire le edulcorazioni di Chiti e Masi, un’ordinanza del Tribunale di Salerno risalente al 16 marzo, ha ordinato l’iscrizione al registro della stampa periodica al sito ‘OltreSalerno’ (http://www.oltresalerno.it, ora offline) definito dagli stessi giudici un ‘giornale →
Si inaugura oggi il Boston CyberArts Festival, che continuerà fra conferenze gratuite e mostre fino al 6 maggio. Fra le sezioni estetiche una è dedicata alla web art ed è fruibile direttamente. Vari sono gli approcci adottati →
Uno dei gruppi più innovativi dell’elettronica dello scorso decennio, gli Autechre, sono in tournèe in Italia. Due le date: oggi al centro Pietralata di Roma e domani al Link di Bologna.
