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.
Stando all’audizione pubblica offerta da Alanis Morrisette e Don Henley, Napster e artisti concordano con l’adozione di una licenza obbligatoria per la musica online. Lo schema dovrebbe ricalcare quella adottata finora per le trasmissioni radiofoniche, che essendo →
Mentre Napster si prepara all’audizione del Senato degli Stati Uniti, e celebra oggi un incontro pubblico sul file-sharing con Chuck D come ospite d’onore, EMI, AOL, Time Warner e Bertlesmann hanno annunciato il loro nuovo subscription service →
Radio Free Virgin ha upgradato il suo free player con una nuova funzione, la possibilità di registrare il brano o la sequenza di brani che si sta ascoltando. Il Radio Free Virgin Player (solo per Win98) usa →
Short Stories è un progetto narrativo collettivo che ha coinvolto 26 artisti con altrettanti racconti da ‘remixare’. Fruibile fisicamente presso la Fabbrica del Vapore di Milano, e sviluppata da UnDo.Net, si snoda online attraverso un’interfaccia bilingue che →
Incontro pubblico oggi con Bruce Perens, a Milano, presso l’Auditorium di Cassina Anna alle 17:00. Dopo aver creato lo schema Debian di distribuzione di Linux, Perens ha fondato insieme a Eric Raymond l’Open Source Initiative, diventando nei →
Dopo aver ridimensionato il fenomeno Napster con l’inghippo dei filtri, la RIAA alza il tiro e punta le sue armi legali contro Gnutella. Numerosi infatti sono stati gli incontri privati nelle ultime settimane con aziende di Internet →
Roman Minaev è l’autore di Trashconnection un sito di net.art che parte dalla definizione di trash online, ossia quelle informazioni inutili o superflue (banner e loghi pubblicitari perloppiù) che riempiono lo spazio visivo. Detournandoli e affiancandoli in →
Si inaugura oggi al Netherlands Media Art Institute di Amsterdam ‘hybrid <life> forms‘, una rassegna sull’arte dei nuovi media prodotta in Australia. Dai lavori esposti emergono le oscure confessioni, gli ibridi naturali e il senso di isolamento →
Comincia oggi a Roma la due giorni di Dissonanze 2001, festival italiano dedicato alla musica elettronica innovativa. Oggi di scena Massimo, Dat Politics, Kid 606, Funkstorung, Plaid, Warpvisions, Metaxu+Metamkine, Matmos e Blow Up Sound System. Domani sul →
Il ‘teach-in’ su Napster, la pubblica discussione in programma alla Catholic University è saltata per mancanza della controparte, anche se pare che la RIAA abbia sconsigliato l’Università dal concedere spazi celebrativi al sistema p2p. L’evento con Shawn →
