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.
La Digidesign, la casa che produce i Pro Tools, sarà insignita di un Technical Grammy, per il grado d’innovazione portata al mondo della produzione musicale. Il primo modello di Pro Tools risale al 1991 ed era costituito →
Il marchio di Etoy, il gruppo di artisti dietro questo nome collettivo (vedi Neural 16), è stato finalmente registrato dopo quasi tre anni e mezzo di attesa. Nel frattempo Etoys, il gigante della vendita di giocattoli al →
I novelli Kruder & Dorfmeister o Jazzanova potranno cimentarsi nell’arte del remix con il nuovo contest messo su dai Groove Armada in collaborazione con Raveworld.net. Il brano da ridisegnare è I See You Baby, liberamente scaricabile nella →
I suoni di Giove sono stati rilevati da un microfono posto sulla sonda Cassini, ora in viaggio verso Saturno, pianeta vicino al quale passerà nel 2004. Pur essendo stati già rilevati in precedenza dalle sonde Pioneer e →
Nuovo lavoro di web art realizzato in Shockwave da Euan Sutherland su commissione di New Media Scotland. Si chiama Modern Plagues e ripercorre il declino del 21 secolo attraverso le sue folli politiche di sviluppo in contrasto →
Soundom è un nuovo servizio (al momento ancora in beta test) del tipo ‘guadagna regalando i dati sulle tue abitudini’. Scaricando un apposito player viene tenuta traccia (e trasmessa alla fonte) di ogni ascolto effettuato (tracce mp3, →
Un altro gruppo elettronico che ha avuto un discreto successo online sono i Trance Factory, passati dall’anonimato a realizzare più di 15.000 dollari in un anno fra vendita di cd e percentuali sui download da mp3.com. La →
303 Infinity è l’ultimo degli artisti di successo assurti in tempi rapidissimi nella hall of fame di mp3.com. Un po’ come Darude (vedi Neural 17), Mikel Fair, un ventisettenne di Houston, supervisore tecnico presso la Compaq Computer, →
Per Scour Exchange dopo la dichiarata bancarotta, sembra prospettarsi un futuro simile a quello di Napster, ossia di distribuzione controllata di tracce licenziate e protette dal diritto d’autore. Frank G. Hausmann, CEO di CenterSpan, la società che →
– Venerdí a Milano al Pergolatribe (via A della Pergola 5)
.Storm (UK)
– Sabato a Bologna al Link (via Fioravanti)
.Rodion live + Tluk live (Resonant Recordings Roma)
– Domenica a Firenze →
