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.
Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, French
In quale formato una monografia può essere elaborata al giorno d’oggi? È una questione aperta che s’interroga su due domini →
Negli ultimi decenni gli artisti multimediali hanno dimostrato un crescente interesse nella storia delle tecnologie e dei loro linguaggi (forse spinti da una crescita esponenziale di questi), parallelamente al convergere non sincrono di →
Princeton University Press, ISBN: 978-0691144610, 264 pages, 2012, English
L’intero ecosistema di hacking e FLOSS sono stati raramente considerati dalla ricerca accademica, nonostante il loro agire fosse spesso identificato come una formidabile produzione collettiva. FLOSS è stato considerato più →
Esplorare lo spazio urbano a naso: l’opera “Blind Smell Stick” di Peter de Cupere ci invita a fare questa esperienza per riscoprire gli spazi che normalmente percorriamo. L’oggetto →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-0816670055, 248 pages, 2012, English
Il concetto di “viralità” nei network fu inizialmente associato all’infezione dei computer virus (e in parte è ancora così oggi), prima di venire a descrivere la rapida →
Uno spazio asettico, un solo tavolo e su di esso un telefono e un grosso volume… un elenco telefonico. Sembrerebbe l’ambiente adatto per fare una telefonata. E le telefonate effettivamente →
Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0822349198, 328 pages, 2012, English
La comunicazione subliminale – l’essere esposti a messaggi troppo veloci o nascosti per essere percepiti coscientemente – è un argomento di →
L’opera “deFacebook” dell’artista indiano Nandan Ghiya è costituita da una serie di ritratti, ricavati da immagini prese dal popolare social network e stampate fisicamente su tela. Le foto scelte sono classici mezzi busti o →
DVD – Illegal Art
Vicky Bennett (People Like Us) è diventato famoso per il suoi collage audio/visual che sono estrapolati da vecchi archivi cinematografici. The Keystone Cut Ups →
I batteri, esseri così piccoli da rientrare nell’ordine del millesimo di millimetro, sono gli organismi più diffusi della Terra. Essi sono praticamente ovunque e possono sopravvivere in condizioni estreme. Mutano, si adattano e tra →
