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.
Un lieve maquillage accompagna la versione 2.0 beta8 di Napster per Windows. Sono stati aggiunte poche funzioni, tra cui la possibilità di specificare parole chiave da escludere nella ricerca, tramite il segno ‘-‘, e quella di poter →
L’immagine più frequente del cyberspace è certamente quella in 3D. Search Space di Mike Lyda consiste in una serie di spazi virtuali in VRML che rappresentano i risultati di un motore di ricerca in 3D. Ogni spazio →
Dal 27 al 29 dicembre, a Berlino, si svolgerà, come ogni anno, il Chaos Communication Congress. Quest’anno sono previsti, oltre alle sempre affolate conferenze, workshop e seminari, anche il quarto campionato tedesco di Lockpicking, la sezione Art&Beauty; →
BayTSP, un’azienda di securitye copyright, ha realizzato BaySpiderSM, l’ennesima applicazione che spera di diventare la gallina dalle uova d’oro, ossia lo standard delle major per rintracciare mp3, .wav e più in generale file musicali sulla rete. L’approccio →
– Venerdí a Roma al Piper
.Nicola Conte
– Venerdí a Torino al Supermarket (viale madonna di campagna 1)
.Lost in space (Richard 1 & Giorgio Valletta
– Sabato a Roma al Brancaleone →
Secondo una ricerca condotta dalla Ipson Reid il 47 per cento delle persone fra i 12 e i 24 anni che usano la rete ha scaricato almeno un brano musicale nell’ultimo mese. Il 90 per cento di →
Non finiscono i guai per my.mp3.com. Dopo le mega multe pagate all’industria del disco, stavolta tocca ad Emusic.com, label online indipendente, citare in giudizio il portale di Michael Robertson. Emusic infatti sostiene che su my.mp3.com girano molte →
I servizi segreti tedeschi (ma quanto segreti, visto che la notizia ha già fatto il giro del mondo) hanno chiesto alla Bertlesmann di ostacolare su Napster lo scambio di brani di band di estrema destra. Per tutta →
Nuovo numero (il 3:4) del BeeHive Hypertext un ‘Hypermedia Literary Journal’ che pubblica lavori fruibili tramite web di scrittura ipertestuale creativa. In sommario lavori di Gregory Ulmer/Talan Memmott (con una spettacolare introduzione di Mark America relizzata con →
L’Optical Storage Technology Assocation (OSTA) ha annunciato una specifica di compatibilitˆ, chiamata Multiplay che assicuri a tutti i Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) e ai Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) di poter essere letti sui lettori di CD e →
