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.
SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe
A symposium on the legacy of cold war espionage for contemporary art in East and West.
(tags: art media)
TECHFORMANCE
From the happening to the flashmob, technology and performance in the territory →
Tim Devin, artista concettuale con base a Boston, ha dato vita ad uno dei più sorprendenti magazine oggi in circolazione: non è possibile acquistarlo in edicola, né →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Parking ticket leads to a virus
Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets.
(tags: virus hacking)
Sousveillance – The Art of Inverse Surveillance – Conference at Aarhus University, February 6-8 2009
Conference, public interventions and concert
(tags: art hacktivism hacking festival)
Kning Disk, ISBN 9789197666701, Sweden, 2007, English
Henrik Rylander è un’artista, un musicista e un fotografo. Questo suo lavoro consiste in un libro di grande formato di fotografie di altoparlanti scattate nelle →
swissmiss: Nothing is Original
a nice text by Jim Jarmush
(tags: art copyright)
Anti datamining è un progetto di ricerca trasversale basato sul recupero e la visione/visualizzazione di dati finanziari presi da internet. Il suo scopo è di creare degli ambienti audiovisivi scritti, alimentati e aggiornati →
igmade.edition, ISSN 1865-9357, Germany, 2008, English / German
Redatto a Stoccarda da Asli Serbest, Mona Mahall e Gerd de Bruyn, questa “Fanzine for Electronics and Aesthetics” è il nuovissimo esperimento nell’integrare →
BotJunkie » EATR Robot Runs On Soylent Green
Engine maker Cyclone Power and Robotic Technologies have teamed up to build a robot called EATR, which stands for Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot. When they say “energetically autonomous,” it means that EATR will →
Le associazioni fra suoni e visual sono stati uno degli argomenti primari dell’estetica della media art negli ultimi vent’anni, ma tecnicamente essi sono bloccati in poche categorie, incluse l’interpretazione digitale dei file in →
DVD + CD – Sudamerica Electronica
Sudamerica Electronica, nuova etichetta di Buenos Aires, articola gran parte delle proprie ricerche attorno il concetto di ‘extreme noise and extreme nature’, fascinazioni che nel dvd →
Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, English
Il “gigantesco libro sulla media art” sembra essere un marchio di fabbrica dello ZKM. Questo nuovo tomo è di 840 pagine e pesa 3 chili e →
CD – Aural Terrains
Field recording e sonorità granulari, inserti auditivi dalle mille sfaccettature, più ambientazioni – che prendono in considerazione contesti naturali ma anche metropolitani, industriali – intensi raccordi, poi frequenze →
Morten Riis: Digital Sound Drawings (Crónica)
“Digital Sound Drawings”, by danish composer Morten Riis, is a collection of 6 pieces composed through the drawing of images and their direct conversion into sound.
(tags: art visual sound music)
