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.
Sensoramalab – Overview
Sensoramalab is the virtual reality experimentation laboratory at Aalborg University Esbjerg
(tags: media art)
Ooz
Ooz is interactive in that it provides human a set of actions, the animals provide reactions and these couplets add to a collective pool of →
Marcos Destructos (aka Marc Chia, aka One Man Nation) ha dato vita ad un’interessante riflessione sulla trasmissione di dati attraverso i network informatici con il recente progetto “Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra“. L’obiettivo del musicista →
CD – Audiobulb
Con il moniker ‘He Can Jog’ – nell’anagramma – il sound-artista newyorkese Erik Schoster, rende omaggio a John Cage, maestro e sperimentatore seminale, un punto di riferimento irrinunciabile, →
CD – Red Label
Eclettiche articolazioni quelle della Red Records, etichetta di base a Belfast, attiva dal 1998, fondata proprio da Gawain Morrison e Shane McCourt, nucleo embrionale dei Men In →
Linux on the iPhone: Linux on the iPhone!
Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch
(tags: hacking hacktivism mobile software)
Network Research » Arithmetik Garden
Arithmetik Garden by Sato Masahiko and Kiriyama Takashi is another work which was exhibited at ICC in Tokyo last year, this time as part of the Open Space. Users enter the garden with a numbered RFID →
Nel profondo della foresta qualcosa sta sovvertendo l’ordine naturale. Il progetto Wind-up Bird(s) di HC Gilje è un stormo di picchi elettro-meccanici montati in posizione alta sugli alberi della foresta di Lillehammer. Ogni →
CD – Extreme
In lingua nipponica, Maju (si pronuncia ‘may-you’), ha lo stesso significato – all’incirca – che in inglese s’esprime con il termine ‘cocoon’. Qui il rilassamento è di tutt’altra pasta – →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers ‘not addicts’
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted.
(tags: videogame hacktivism)
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs – NYTimes.com
Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music →
Revolver, ISBN 9783865884558, Germany, 2008, English
t0/Public Netbase ha indubbiamente giocato un ruolo storico nell’arte e nella politica dei nuovi media. Konrad Becker il suo visionario fondatore, ha dislocato l’epicentro delle sue →
CD – Nonvisualobjects
Elementi auditivi unitari, proliferare di singole idee sonore, field recording, assenze e frequenze, non-linearitá, sopensione e saturazione, droni, ambience e concettualismo. Sono queste solo alcune delle coordinate ricorrenti in →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers ‘not addicts’
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted.
(tags: videogame hacktivism)
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs – NYTimes.com
Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music →
Robbie Martin (nome d’arte Fluorescent Grey) musicista e provocatore è divenuto famoso per alcuni fake come quello del falso video della decapitazione di un soldato americano in Iraq (in realtà la “vittima” era →
Digg Attack – A JavaScript Game – Nihilogic
A Digg-’em-up struggle against the overwhelming forces of social media.
(tags: media videogame hacking net)
