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.
Fermato all’ultimo momento il lancio del primo satellite per il digital audio broadcasting, di proprietà della XM Satellite Radio di Washington. Non appena il lancio sarà stato effettuato l’azienda promette di attivare centro canali diversi entro l’estate, →
La svedese Elektron ha inaugurato la vendita di Sidstation, un sintetizzatore MIDi basato sul mitico MOS 6581 SID, il chip sonoro del Commodore 64. Dall’aspetto di una groovebox, emette affascinanti bleeps, essendo completa di un sistema operativo →
L’ultimo album (A.XL N.1) di Diabolik ‘Il Ladro Invisibile’ si snoda intorno ad un gruppo di hacker, disegnati come ‘ragazzi qualunque’, che prima contrastano e poi aiutano l’efferato protagonista. Da notare le schermate dei computer in stile →
Di tanto in tanto anche la stampa italiana sembra svegliarsi su ciò che accade nel resto del mondo digitale fuori dalle oscillazioni di borsa. Il numero di Carnet di Gennaio sfoggia copertina e speciale sull’arte digitale con →
Lo storico IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive), il primo sito a reclutare artisti sconosciuti proponendone clip e foto online, ha chiuso le attività fino a nuovo ordine. Attivo dalla fine del 1993, era stato recentemente rilevato da →
La Sony ha annunciato la produzione di lettori per un nuovo formato di MiniDisc e per file mp3. Il primo si chiama MiniDisc Long Play che aumenta la capacità di registrazione, usando sempre gli stessi supporti, e →
‘Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760‘ è un’installazione sonora dell’artista Laiwan presentata alla Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery di Vancouver che prevede anche una componente web sperimentabile direttamente. L’intento dei quattro distinti file interattivi in Shockwave →
– Venerdì a Milano, al Cox18
.Spazio Petardo/Topolin.it party (nell’immagine, autofinanziamento delle edizioni Topolin)
– Venerdì a Venezia, al Rivolta
.Jollymusic
– Venerdì a Roma, al Brancaleone
.ZED BIAS dj set (2-step →
Stasera incontro in webcast con Mark Tribe (nella foto), fondatore di Rhizome.org presso lo Jihui, uno spazio d’incontro in quel di New York. Appuntamento alle 7:00 PM ora locale (in Italia circa l’una di notte) sul sito →
Dopo varie vicissitudini Musikmaker.com sta per essere liquidata. Celebre per essere stata una delle prime ad offrire compilation personalizzate attraverso le sue 160,000 tracce licenziate da 165 etichette discografiche diverse, e per aver stretto un primo accordo →
