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.
There are many photographic artistic devices, built in recent years to critically analyse the intromission of new technologies in the photographic aesthetic process. Prosthetic Photographer is one of these: thanks to machine learning training this device learns to recognise pictures →
A 1950s-style Bakelite telephone is the core of the installation by Stephanie Cormier and Dave Dyment for Untitled [Eavesdrop]. However, the strong retro aesthetic of the work conceals a conceptual technological short-circuit. Inside the device there is a smartphone that →
“Perchè sono uscito dai social media?” L’artista francese Thierry Fournier mostra una serie di video da trentadue minuti di persone che hanno spontaneamente deciso di abbandonare o disabilitare I propri account su Facebook, Instagram o Snapchat in quanto essi risultano →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816676156, Language: English, 312 pages, USA, 2011
Remixthebook è stato definito dal suo autore Mark Amerika come “un gioco speculativo”. Presentato come un libro, la sua unicità risiede nell’essere un’interconnessione tra concetti, esperienze, casi →
Questa è la terza antologia dopo “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? e “Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation” per approfondire e “archiviare” un’edizione del festival Arse Elektronika. L’evento, che si svolge →
Generalmente pensiamo alla sorveglianza come fosse uno sguardo distaccato, una forma remota di guardare. Il fatto che le telecamere di sorveglianza registrano informazioni di continuo e in modo discreto edulcora in parte la violenza →
book+2CD
, Edições Nodar,
315 pages
, Nodar 003,
ISBN 978-9899720503
Questo denso libro, corredato di due CD, è il risultato di un programma triennale di residenze internazionali di →
Il progetto Deleted City di Richard Vijgen è una visualizzazione interattiva (interactive data visualization) della miriade di dati ospitati sul servizio gratuito di hosting web Geocities, molto popolare agli albori del web commerciale. →
The MIT Press
, English,
464 pp.,
ISBN 978-0262014960
Questo libro è un piccolo gioiello tra i tanti che hanno a che fare con la storia della media art. Stephen Jones ha intrapreso →
Versus è un’installazione sonora cinetica di David Letellier. Il suo funzionamento è caratterizzato da un meccanismo interattivo dialogico. Le due sculture cinetiche che costituiscono l’installazione sono interdipendenti e per generare senso devono necessariamente →
