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.
Focolai di rapidi passaparola, gli incidenti stradali aggregano in pochissimo tempo dense folle urbane. La gente, attratta dallo spettacolo febbrile della tragedia, semplicemente si ferma. Non corre più presa dal delirio quotidiano, ma improvvisamente →
NAI Publishers, 2010, 276 pages, English, ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6
L’estetica delle reti e del web, che si avvicini alla concezione più riconosciuta di estetica, è un settore poco sviluppato, nonostante più di →
Eternal Summer Storm è la prima sperimen- tazione che Choy Ka Fai propone all’interno della cornice del Prospectus for a future body: un ambizioso progetto che, nelle intenzioni dell’artista originario →
L’artista belga Jasper Rigole ha dedicato la propria ricerca ai concetti di autenticità, obiettività, falsificazione e al peculiare ruolo che essi assumono in relazione ai processi di storicizzazione e, più in generale, alla memoria, →
Polity Press
, 2009
, 332 pages
, English,
ISBN-13: 978-0745640914
Finalmente disponibile in inglese dopo otto anni, “Optical Media” è l’influente libro di uno dei filosofi dei media più importanti e controversi: Friedrich Kittler. Il →
Niklas Roy si diverte a giocare con il concetto di privacy con una recente installazione interattiva: My Little Piece of Privacy . Per difendere il proprio laboratorio berlinese da sguardi indiscreti si →
O’Reilly Media,
2009
, Pages: 240,
ISBN: 978-0-596-80215-8
Una delle minacce di cui si è più parlato nell’ambito dell’universo digitale è la cosiddetta “cyber warfare” (per la maggior parte delle persone è un →
Guarda il photoset di Pasajes, Viajes por el híper-espacio qui
Passare attraverso imponenti colonne greche fatte di neon, che citano le scanalature tipiche di quelle antiche, suggerisce immediatamente →
lightrhythm visuals
, dvd,
2010
Della scena del VJ (ora in espansione) storicamente fanno parte un bel po’ di talentuosi designer che uniscono le proprie abilità visive alla passione per la →
LabforCulture,
English,
2010,
96 pages,
ISBN-13: 978-1906496500
I due curatori di questo libro definiscono il blogging come un “sismografo culturale”: una definizione affascinante, che guarda alla regolare attività del blogging culturale →
