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.
edited by Brandon LaBelle, Claudia Martinho – Errant Bodies Press; Pap/Com [book + cd], ISBN: 9780982743904, 304 pages, 2011, English
Uno storico “spiazzamento” ha →
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ha sviluppato una certa attitudine che esprime compiutamente attraverso le sue opere, disposte in matrici di spazio ordinato e colonne di macchine controllate, materiali dei quali i movimenti reattivi manifestano inequivocabilmente →
edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński – Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, ISBN: 9788361587545, 192 pages, 2011, English, Polish
La categoria “terza cultura” già dal 1995 si riferisce ad un seminale →
Jamie Allen ha utilizzato una classica strategia per correlare due dimensioni alquanto differenti – il molto intimo e il molto pubblico – mantenendo la loro rispettiva →
Black Dog, ISBN: 9781907317293, 192 pages, 2011, English
Oltre all’abbondanza dei discorsi circa il nostro diventare sempre più “cyborg” (sull’estensione delle nostre capacità attraverso vari mezzi tecnologici e sull’avere i nostri sistemi →
Con la crescita esponenziale di informazioni online, aziende e governi hanno intensificato gli sforzi per controllare, regolare e tenere traccia di queste informazioni. Coloro che – al contrario – hanno sempre sostenuto la →
Current, ISBN: 9781617230028, 256 pages, 2011, English
Nell’ultima decade uno dei più influenti fenomeni sociali che ha coinvolto i media digitali (ai più ancora poco noti) è stato il cosiddetto “Makers”, il →
Andando ben oltre le sempre ricorrenti visualizzazioni 2D del suono, Juan Manuel de J. Escalante (Realität) propone una serie di sculture in 3D che esplorano una nuova direzione nella rappresentazione visiva della musica. →
Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137026668, 208 pages, 2012, English
Il titolo di questo libro sintetizza in poche parole ma molto efficacemente un complesso ragionamento. Gere qui sta indagando come le tecnologie digitali – →
Centri urbani, parchi, club alla moda, fermate degli autobus. Gli esseri umani sono animali sociali. Essi si incontrano ovunque e controllano ogni altro continuamente. A volte – tuttavia – questi →
