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.
ScribbleBots on Pixelsumo
ScribbleBots, a design concept project from MA student Jon Cumberpatch
(tags: art robot software visual design)
YouTube – Pat Metheny – Orchestrion Preview
Pat Metheny – Orchestrion
(tags: performance robot music sound)
Network Research » Transition Soundings
Transition Soundings by David Birchfield, David Lorig, →
YouTube – PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN
New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
(tags: visual video design urban)
Networked_Performance — Activists Take Over The Big Screen, Manchester England
TheWoosterCollective — April 05, 2010 — At 12am April 1st, a group of “hacktivists” and concerned →
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1584350767, USA, 2009, English
La vita del filosofo italiano Franco Bifo Berardi è stata spesso connessa alla contemporaneità. Dopo i suoi seminali gesti e imprese negli anni Settanta, i →
MONDO 2000: An Open Source History — Kickstarter
MONDO 2000: An Open Source History is a web project and a book. All those who touched directly upon the history of the scene/magazine (including the earlier versions, High Frontiers and Reality Hackers) →
CD – Entr’acte
Nella forma di registrazioni ispide, estrapolate dall’audio ambientale d’una sala giochi di Taipei, poi pesantemente trattate, le frequenze della prima parte di “A Narrow Angle” s’impongono all’ascolto in intrecci →
Empathy box del collettivo italiano iocose, è un apparecchio che produce dolore da condividere. E’ una scatola di legno e metallo, un oggetto vintage che ricorda una vecchia radio attorno a cui sedersi, →
Vote for the Computer Engineer Barbie
Vote for the Computer Engineer Barbie
(tags: media gender)
ThinkGeek :: TV Poltergeist Phantom Prank Device
the TV Poltergeist! Annoy the crap out of friends and enemies by possessing their TV so it turns on and off at →
synthPond
synthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and audio toy by conceptual new media artist Zach Gage.
(tags: music software visual design sound)
Rhythm House: Kiss Voodoo | Ads of the World
Online Piracy is killing your favourite artist
(tags: design copyright visual interface)
Funny iPhone →
TheDieline.com: Package Design: Record Cover = Record Player
The self-sufficient packaging makes a very low tech, yet audio-capable record player
(tags: vinyl design music sound)
Report: Malware capital of the world is Shaoxing, China | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Computer security firm Symantec →
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, English
Bill Wasik fa esperimenti su internet sulla cultura virale. Ha organizzato il primo (inutile) flash mob a New York, e ha continuato con altre strategie →
CD – Audiobulb
Se – come pratica consueta – registrare dei suoni viene considerato alla stregua d’una “cattura”, in questo progetto di musica elettronica astratta e concettuale, la rappresentazione della realtà auditiva avviene →
Neural 35, Friends? – Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism
The new Neural issue (#35) is out, with 8 more pages and exclusive stuff for subscribers
(tags: neural.it art sound net media)
CD – Interval
Fra le sequenze sognanti e ambientali di “+1”, progetto di Laura e Mark Cetilia, sembra insinuarsi il pretesto per proficui confronti e collaborazioni. Non che l’approccio specifico del duo venga →
(Pic) Turntable Business Card – PSFK
Indian designers Nasheet Shadani and Deepak Nagar have created an remarkable business card for a DJ. The designers replicated a moving record in the center of the card, which reveals different pieces of information as →
