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.
Più di 2900 tracce protette dal diritto d’autore di artisti quali Dave Matthews Band, Etta James, o le TLC, sono disponibili online sul sito della BMG, fidando sul possibile boom entro l’anno di vendite di player per →
– Venerdí a Roma al Brancaleone/Agatha (nell’immagine)
.Digital (UK) + Royalize
– Venerdí a Bologna al Link
.Zona Dopa (rap + aereosol art)
– Sabato a Bologna al Link
.Rephresh.it + Luke →
Il governo francese imporrà dal 22 gennaio ulteriori tasse sui CD vergini, sui DVD registrabili e sui player MP3, per recuperare una parte dei soldi persi nelle copie libere di materiale coperto dal diritto d’autore. Dopo le →
Dalla fervida mente di Richard Stallman e dei suoi adepti alla filosofia del software libero è nato il progetto GNUPedia, una libera enciclopedia collettiva che parli di ogni area dello scibile umano, con corsi didattici allegati. Lo →
Il sistema di suono e di video THX della Lucasfilm, attraverso software e hardware ottimizzati sarà disponibile a breve sui computer Dell della serie 8100 e 4100 (con minimo 128Mb di ram), in base ad un accordo →
La Thomson and Coding Technologies insieme al Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (nella foto) hanno annunciato una nuova versione dello standard mp3, denominato mp3PRO, che dovrebbe dimezzare il sampling rate necessario per ottenere la stessa qualità. Per →
Il Neo Jukebox 2100/2200 è un nuovo player mp3 della Multi Technology Equipment che sfuma il confine fra un normale player e un PC. Include infatti un hard disk da 3.5 pollici fino a 20 Gb di →
Non sono ancora chiare le motivazioni che hanno spinto l’artista estone Laur Tiidemann a suicidarsi, dandosi fuoco davanti all’Estonian Academy of Arts nella città di Tallinn l’11 gennaio scorso. Tiidemann aveva studiato ‘interactive multimedia’ e fra le →
Sessantasei persone sono state licenziate da Emusic dopo un conteggio che dovrebbe, in questo modo, far risparmiare all’azienda sedici milioni di dollari nel prossimo anno. Motivi addotti: calo della pubblicità online e pirateria. Listen.com, pure adottando le →
Uno dei primi documentari sulla net.art, realizzato da una televisione americana è disponibile in rete in streaming. ‘Net Art‘ dura poco più di sei minuti e raccolgie opinioni e brevi interviste dal Berkeley Net Art Symposium dello →
