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.
L’austriaca Sony DADC, una delle maggiori fabbriche europee di compact disc, ha presentato al MIDEM gli ‘Sniffle-Disc’, esemplari di cd profumati, pronti per essere prodotti industrialmente con la musica desiderata. Le fragranze sono integrate nella superficie del →
Alla Tribes Gallery di New York si è chiusa da poco Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications, imponente mostra curata da Cristine Wang che riunisce pionieri e outsider della net.art. Molte le opere, realizzate →
La band di rock indipendente west coast ‘Death Cab for Cutie’ ha deciso di coinvolgere per quanto possibile tutti i suoi fan nel loro ultimo tour. Il sito di Holiday Matinee, partner dell’operazione, viene aggiornato quotidianamente con →
Negli ultimi giorni si sono susseguite dimostrazioni pubbliche e conferenze stampa dei due nuovi formati audio per l’alta fedeltà. Il DVD Audio, mostrato con alcuni nuovi dischi di musica classica a New York, utilizza fino a sei →
Domani a Mestre, al Teatro Toniolo, in un’unica affolata e intensa giornata, si svolgerà la sesta edizione del festival d’arte e multimedialità Opera Totale. Fra gli artisti presenti Joe Jackson, Augusto Grillo, Andi Freeman and Jason Skeet →
Il collettivo di Etoy ora passa all’attacco, dopo aver combattuto le battaglie legali contro Etoys inc., grande catena di distribuzione di giocattoli, (vedi Neural 16) e aver riottenuto il proprio dominio, a seguito di un temporaneo oscuramento. →
– Sabato a Prato, al Siddharta club
.Sigue Sigue Sputnik (nella foto)
– Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.J Majik – Metalheadz Night (jungle UK dj set)
– Sabato a Roma, al →
Comincia oggi a Bologna, presso il Link, Hops! festival di visual e performating arts. Durerà fino a sabato e prevede quattro sale tematiche, con spettacoli quasi in contemporanea, fra cui quella denominata ‘digital room’, in cui si →
Leonardo Chiariglione ha annunciato che lascerà entro tre mesi la carica di direttore esecutivo dell’SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), l’organizzazione delle major del disco e del cinema costituita per creare uno standard di protezione dei contenuti digitali. →
Anche il gruppo di electro-industrial Rammstein ha deciso di pruomoversi con materiale in anteprima sul web. Il nuovo video ‘Sneak Preview’ è visibile da oggi sul sito ufficiale, ma accessibile solo ai fan abbonati alla newsletter ufficiale, →
