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.
Shopping Windows, “la net.art dopo l’e-commerce e la morte della net.art”, è il provocatorio titolo di una mostra online di lavori eseguiti su commissione che incrociano le strade dell’arte con internet e la fine del commercio elettronico →
È stata inaugurata una nuova mailing-list in italiano su Freenet, il progetto di rete di scambio d’informazioni in modo anonimo e libero (per iscriversi visitare il sito). Contestualmente il primo server italiano si è aggiunto alla rete →
Universal Music Group e Sony Music Entertainment hanno stretto un accordo con Yahoo per affidarle la distribuzione dei loro titoli non appena decollato il progetto Duet (vedi Duet, media a pagamento) previsto per la fine dell’estate. Nel →
Dalla settimana scorsa le grinfie della RIAA sono arrivate anche su iMesh, l’alternativa israeliana a Napster. Un avviso ha informato gli utenti che l’applicazione di una serie di filtri avrebbe reso impossibile il download di determinati brani, →
Mentre l’elenco delle webzine italiane che si sono fermate si allunga paurosamente, tutte ovviamente spaventate dalle pene di regime imposte dalla nuova legge sulla stampa, Punto Informatico ha lanciato la prima petizione, a cui hanno aderito nel →
Oggi a Bologna per il ciclo d’incontri ‘Digital_is_not_analog’, presso i Salara Media Lab (via Don Minzoni 18), ‘Hacktivism, esperienze di attività e comunicazione politica indipendente in Internet’ con Ricardo Dominguez, dell’Electronic Disturbance Theatre/The Thing New York, che →
Oggi a Bari presso l’Aula Magna ‘Attilio Alto’ del Politecnico di Bari dalle ore 16.00 si tiene il convegno ‘Autarchie Digitali’, diritti e frontiere dell’audiovideo. Interverranno Giovanni De Stefano (computer grafica), Luciano Sovena (diritto d’autore), Luigi Pannarale →
– Venerdì su Weekendance (Radio 2 alle 23:00)
.Avalanches (breakbeat, tech-house)
– Sabato a Roma, al Bluecheese
.Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy) dj set UK – Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.The Boutique →
Approvata definitivamente la assurda legge sulla stampa online che impone registrazione e direttore responsabile (ossia iscritto almeno all’albo dei pubblicisti) per non incorrere nel reato di stampa clandestina. Pene previste: reclusione fino a due anni e fino →
Dopo la spettacolare audizione al Senato degli U.S.A., come in un copione di un film hollywoodiano, i contendenti placano le arringhe e attendono le prossime mosse istituzionali. Nel frattempo le analisi costanti di Webnoize parlano sì di →
