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.
YouTube – Two-handed theremin
Pitch is adjusted by moving hands left and right. Volume is adjusted by moving hands up and down. Vibrato is adjusted by moving hands foward and backward. Many players and hands are possible, and the control can →
Vivendo in una grande città metropolitana e viaggiando costantemente, le applicazioni Google Maps e Google Earth sono una necessità essenziale per trovare la strada giusta in questi fitti paesaggi urbani. Sia che si →
CD – ZeitKratzer
Prima d’una serie di tre uscite su Zeitkratzer Records, dal titolo ‘Electronics’, che sarà stampata prossimamente anche nel formato d’un 3CD boxset, in questo progetto, Carsten Nicolai →
experimental art foundation: Biotech Art – Revisited Symposium: Life, death & biotechnia
Life, death & biotechnia is a one-day symposium that brings together the artists participating in the Biotech Art – Revisited project, along with others involved in the discourses surrounding →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Territorio d’estrema importanza per gli esiti climatici dell’intero pianeta, l’Antartico, vasto più degli Stati Uniti, ci rimanda nel suo biancore accecante e nelle sterminate distese di ghiacci, all’essenza stessa →
Sound mirrors – Denge
Spectacular remnants of a dead-end technology, the three “listening ears” at Denge near Dungeness in Kent are the best known of the various acoustic mirrors built along Britain’s coast. A forerunner of radar, the sound mirrors were →
CD – Baskaru
Ellissi sonore minimali, vellutate, ambientali e sinfoniche, per le quali Ethan Rose utilizza un vecchio Wurlitzer Theater Organ, manipolando poi con un computer ed altri dispositivi elettronici le sonorità →
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The Roboloco Festival will comprise of an exhibition, concerts, talks and workshops on the theme of the boundaries between humans and machines. Roboloco will address questions surrounding the development of new technologies, such as the role robots play →
Feral Trade (Import-Export) è un’attività di commercio al dettaglio con matrice artistica fondata a Bristol nel 2003. Secondo Kate Rich, la creatrice, si tratta di un esperimento di commercializzazione di beni attraverso i →
HMKV/Kettler, ISBN 9783941100008, Germany, 2008, English
Nell’introduzione a questo libro Armin Medosh ci ricorda saggiamente che “siamo stati una società elettromagnetica per più di un secolo.” Le onde elettromagnetiche sono tutt’intorno a noi, →
Dynamic Sculpture 0.1 on Vimeo
Dynamic Sculpture, made up by poplar wood modules and an interactive digital “second skin”, is a public art piece and an invitation to relationships
(tags: art media)
Tactical Nomadic Storytelling at Atelier Nord
Pattie Belle Hastings is currently working on our workstation for video, image and sound with the project Tactical Nomadic Storytelling
(tags: art mobile literature)
Future
The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth).
(tags: art media preservation)
Le attuali e tradizionali macchine fotografiche digitali ed analogiche basate sul Single Lens Reflex (SLR) sono pensate per fare una cosa sola, e farla bene. Il loro fine ultimo è di fare una →
