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.
Difficile resistere all’invito di scrivere qualcosa sulla superficie lunare. L’opera Moon mettendo insieme due celebri artisti, l’indomabile Ai Wei Wei e il sensoriale Olafur Eliasson, permette esattamente di fare questo. Collegandosi al sito di Moon è possibile abbandonare i propri →
In times of increasing online networked surveillance, the need for our disconnection and emancipation from centralized technological platforms becomes more and more crucial. One no longer feels safe when it comes to data. The news is out and the mere →
During the last edition of Transmediale festival in Berlin, the foyer of HKW was occupied by numerous theodolite scopes and data viewers, used to reveal to the audience different correlations of data. The graphs, charts and measurements presented and supported →
Including everything from psychoacoustics and sound topology to neural networks and philosophy of language, Florian Hecker has lately been setting up installations and performances internationally. Even though his work may appear as diligent, academic studies into various sonic materials Hecker →
Il neo-laureato al Royal College of Art Minsu Kim ha creato un progetto sperimentale che esplora le possibilità di interazione sensoriale tra uomo e macchina. L’opera, che è stata completata nel giugno 2013, indaga su una modalità di comunicazione rappresentando →
Che cosa c’è in comune tra la nostra attuale ossessione per i dati (in quanto argomento pertinente attorno alle discussioni sulla privacy e i social media) e il feticismo per il vinile espresso nel collezionismo dei dischi? L’idea che un →
L’acoustic design è un business ancora empirico ma prescindendo dai suoi esordi sperimentali i concetti correlati alla sua qualità sonora hanno relegato l’acustica applicata ad un ruolo piuttosto servile, limitando spesso il campo di applicazione della disciplina alla risoluzione di →
1000hz è una frequenza comunemente usata come segnale di prova in esperimenti di percezione uditiva. In rigorose ricerche sulla sensibilità umana al suono e sulle soglie uditive si sono spesso usati 1000Hz come punto di riferimento per la determinazione dei →
Se pensavate che l’arte possa davvero un giorno finire sotto la pelle avevate ragione. Anthony Antonellis, un artista americano che dice di “vivere e lavorare su Internet”, ha sviluppato una galleria in un chip, che poi indossa sotto la sua →
Il processo di cifratura delle informazioni per migliorarne la sicurezza è uno dei paradigmi moderni per proteggere i dati dalla miriade possibile di occhi digitali invisibili. Esemplificati dalla strategia di Wikileaks al livello dei mass media, i dubbi fondamentali – →
