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.
Se sempre più fiori, fra quelli acquistati dai fiorai sono clonati e se il cibo è sempre meno riconoscibile nel momento in cui è manipolato geneticamente, stiamo affrontando tempi in cui l’intervento →
CD – Sub Rosa
In una confezione che certo non passa inosservata (busta 17×24 centimetri, argento-metallizzata, anche trasparente, con annesso cartonato esagonale ad apertura a ‘bocciolo’), arriva l’ultima produzione Sub Rosa. Già stiamo →
Mute Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-1906496180, UK, 2009, English
La difesa del modello FLOSS nella cultura è una strategia nodale per il cambiamento, ed è importante tenere a mente ciò che le due →
Open Source Embroidery
The Open Source Embroidery project was initiated by Ele Carpenter in 2005. The project has grown to support and facilitate a range of artists practice investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.
(tags: art hacking hacktivism media)
CD – Staalplaat
Dallo sterminato catalogo di registrazioni a marchio Muslimgauze, ancora la Staalplaat estrae un’inedito, edizione limitata a sole 700 copie, ‘Sycophant Of Purdah’ fu originariamente concepito per essere pubblicato nel 1994, →
Se c’è una vittima predestinata del decadente gioco del diritto d’autore musicale è la musica classica. Una gran parte della musica classica dovrebbe essere completamente libera, visto che i suoi diritti d’autore dovrebbero essere →
CD – Shiver Sounds
Malfunzionamenti nelle registrazioni d’un minidisc, l’utilizzo d’oramai esitanti lettori di cassette o cd, la gloriosa ‘fine’ d’un sistema d’amplificazione, assieme alle continue interferenze ed ai rumori elettrostatici – espressi →
book, DIY, USA, 2009, English
I primi due volumi di Wizzywig sono fumetti autoprodotti professionalmente con argomenti hacker per tema. Essi raccontano in forma di fiction classiche storie dei due argomenti (hacking e →
Eyecode (Interactive Eye-Tracking Installation) on Vimeo
Eyecode (Golan Levin, 2007) is an interactive installation whose display is wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed. By means of a hidden camera, the system records and replays brief video clips of →
CD – Mego
Frequenze distorte e gorgoglii dell’impianto fonico: al limite dell’inudibile. A stento emergono flebili impulsi e grumi sonori. Sembrano, gli altoparlanti, passare da uno stato di coma alla morte certa. Solo →
The Architecture Issue – Data Center Overload – NYTimes.com
Internet invisble infrastructure
(tags: net hacking)
Quasi nessuno delle dozzine di “tavoli musicali interattivi” ha evitato la trappola dell’”astrazione”, rimanendo legato ad elementi tutti simili fatti in forme geometriche perfette che hanno assunto l’identità, rispettivamente, di “strumenti”, “campioni”, “batterie”, →
CD – Raster-Noton
Intrappolato dal suo stesso genio, autoindotto a calzare prevalentemente i panni esotici da Senor Coconat, Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, aka Atom™, aka Lassigue Bendthaus, forte adesso della sua prima →
The Architecture Issue – Data Center Overload – NYTimes.com
Internet invisble infrastructure
(tags: net hacking)
