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.
La Fahrenheit Entertainment, un’azienda americana con al suo interno un’etichetta discografica specializzata in country music, ha annunciato l’uscita del primo cd protetto da copia. Si tratta dell’ultimo album di Charley Pride, e il sistema adottato è il →
Il tema degli \\international\ media\art award 2001 è Ctrl space, the vigiland society. Organizzata dallo ZKM Center for Art and Media di Karlsruhe, la competizione premierà fra gli altri, un video e un lavoro interattivo. Come dice →
I chioschi per la vendita di brani musicali selezionabili a piacimento assomigliano sempre più all’incrocio fra un jukebox e un distributore di benzina. Non si discosta da questa descrizione MusicTeller, la serie di pseudo-monoliti della distristribuzione che →
Sulla stessa rotta di coloro che tentano di estrarre una qualche anima dai dati in perenne movimento sui cavi della rete, Amy Alexander e Peter Traub hanno programmato un sito che trasforma i risultati di una ricerca, →
È attualmente in beta test Snoopstar, il software poco pubblicizzato della Bertelsmann, che potrebbe intervenire nel caso Napster dovesse soccombere da un momento all’altro. La versione ufficiale è che Snoopstar è solo un test, ma in fatto →
Duet sarà pronto per l’estate. Il sistema di distribuzione a pagamento di audio e video, sviluppato dalla Vivendi-Universal in collaborazione con la Sony dovrebbe poter sfruttare non solo la rete di PC, ma anche le reti wireless →
Nell’ultima settimana sono state inviate 60 comunicazioni giudiziarie ad altrettanti provider che ospitano server facenti parte del network Open Napster, facenti girare software simile a Napster, ma scollegato dalla relativa azienda. Ci sono tantissimi client che permettono →
Come in un epico rapimento di un’importantissima spia o di un personaggio famoso, le major mandano a dire ai vertici di Napster che la loro offerta è troppo bassa. Basata su abbonamenti potenziali di 5 dollari al →
Domenica 25 intorno alle 23:00 REplay PLAYer, webcast in diretta di Karlheinz Essl che lascia suonare l’omonimo programma come strumento d’improvvisazione, usando suoni come ‘objet trouvees’ e mettendoli insieme tramite algoritmi di composizione in tempo reale. Il →
– Venerdì a Milano, al Tunnel
.Funki Porcini (Ninja Tune)
– Venerdì a Bologna, al Link
.Malaisa + Ice one (Dogs n Pigs Entertainment) hip hop
– Sabato a Verona, al’Interzona
.Funki →
