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.
‘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 →
Nonostante il pianto greco dell’industria americana sui maligni effetti di Napster e del suo modello di scambio gratuito dei files, le vendite di cd del periodo natalizio sono state le più alte degli ultimi nove anni, come →
– Venerdí a Milano allo Spleen/Conchetta 18
.Jollymusic (nella foto) + Cerrone
– Venerdí a Torino al Supermarket (viale madonna di campagna 1)
.Lost in space (Richard 1 & Giorgio Valletta
– Venerdí →
Nuovi particolari su BayTSP una delle strutture di tracciamento (vedi Ancora tracker per la musica online) che cercano di ricostruire i percorsi in rete di materiale protetto dal diritto d’autore. Generalmente vengono impiegati tre serie di computer →
Fra i tentativi di accaparrarsi il non indifferente mercato di riproduttori mp3 per automobili, uno dei tentativi più interessanti è stato messo a punto dalla Phatnoise e consiste di un lettore di cartridge, praticamente un piccolo hard →
Secondo Measurecast, un’azienda di rilevamento ascolti delle Internet radio, durante le festività natalizie si è registrato un brusco calo di ascolti, dovuto alle ferie dagli uffici, luoghi da cui perloppiù si ascolta questo tipo di flussi sonori.
Dopo la BMG anche la Edel ha stretto un accordo con Napster per la distribuzione controllata di tracce, a partire dalla futura versione del software. Si tratta della seconda label indipendente più prospera in assoluto, con sede →
