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.
CD – Angry Vegan
Registrato tra Brooklyn e Trenton (New York), Deep Sound Channel 1, pur mescolando bleep elettronici, groove dub, click e gliccerie d’ultima generazione, non rinuncia certo a forti influssi →
Reviewing Fauxtography
A blog–driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity
(tags: hacking hacktivism media visual)
BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | ‘Lost’ Dad’s Army show back on TV
A vintage Dad’s Army episode, thought to have been →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, English
Ci sono numerosi fatti scientifici che testimoniano la pervasività della televisione, e la facilità con cui incide sulla nostra coscienza, creando ciò che l’autore →
Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing
Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262113113, U.S.A., 2008, English
La copertina di Mechanisms mostra un hard disk recuperato dalle rovine del World Trade Centre, una “black box” bruciacchiata e parzialmente distrutta, e da cui, nonostante tutto, i dati sono stati →
Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing
Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the →
Visualizing Artikulation at Bad Assembly
After years of hunting around online, and surely I was looking in all the wrong places, I finally procured the holy grail of electronic music scores, György Ligeti’s Artikulation
(tags: art music video visual sound)
The Agrippa Files →
É un dato di fatto che nell’era del Web 2.0 la gente viva esistenze parallele immergendosi nel cosiddetto metaverso, il meta-universo popolato da avatars come descritto da Neal Stevenson (1992). Tuttavia il progressivo →
Interspecies Homepage
empowers artists to re-invent the human relationship with animals, with the goal of healing our own species’ emotional, spiritual, and cultural ties with nature.
(tags: art music sound science)
Ecofont | less is more
The prints we make for our ‘daily use’ →
Octodons’mix
Il s’agit un dispositif de Djing activé par trois octodons (rongeurs d’Amérique du sud).
(tags: art music media performance)
ThinkGeek :: PlusDeck Ex USB Cassette Deck
Obviously you can use the PlusDeck Ex to convert your old audio cassettes to MP3 files…
(tags: music →
CD – Sonic Arts Network
Musicalità da vaudeville e cut-upping estremo, precise tecniche di sovrapposizione e assemblaggio audio, studiati intrecci, collage multipli, sono questi solo alcuni degli espedienti utilizzati da →
all streets | ben fry
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features.
(tags: art mobile visual net)
Le Corridor @ iMal
“Le corridor” proposes the experience of modulating one’s perception. →
all streets | ben fry
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features.
(tags: art mobile visual net)
Le Corridor @ iMal
“Le corridor” proposes the experience of modulating one’s perception. →
Tra tutti i paesi che limitano l’accesso ai contenuti su Internet, la Cina ha il sistema di censura più esteso. Grazie al Golden Shield Project (noto anche come Great Firewall of China), la →
