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.
3 CD – Erratum
Uscita non proprio ultimissima ma dal carattere antologico e quindi per molti ancora interessante, ‘Erratum #4. Sound review. Noise + Art →
Il newyorchese Kurt Ralske è un maestro della manipolazione dell’immagine. Con il suo progetto “Motion-Extraction-Reanimation Series“, l’artista riassembla materiale da vari film come il celebre “Alphaville” (1965) di Jean-Luc Godard e →
book – JRP Ringier – ISBN13: 9783905770636
Carsten Nicolai è un caso unico nel mondo della sound art. In qualche modo rappresenta il prototipo dell’ideale artista sonoro contemporaneo: non classificabile solo come →
Sviluppando l’interfaccia uomo-macchina più “naturale” è sempre stato il Sacro Graal dell’industria informatica. I codici ancestrali che sovrintendono i nostri istintivi comportamenti sono molto spesso ingannati da segni culturali e dai loro relativi →
book – Institute of Network Cultures – ISBN13: 9780826418456
Stampato come atti dell’omonima conferenza di due giorni, questo reader prende come punto di partenza il concetto di “industria creativa” del governo inglese →
CD – Raster-Noton
Fa un certo effetto riconoscere nel booklet, nelle vesti d’una assai compassata gentildonna inglese d’oggi, Christine Carol Newby, aka Cosey Fanni Tutti, abbracciata →
CD – Cronica
Diviso alquanto in modo atipico in quattro tracce, la prima d’oltre venti minuti, la seconda e la terza inferiori ai due minuti, l’ultima – quasi una suite – di oltre quaranta minuti, →
L’origami è l’antica arte giapponese del piegare fogli di carta. Il suo fine ultimo è rappresentare oggetti usando solo un folgio di carta quadrato, che è piegato in modi intricati. L’artista americano Joo →
Il “Graphite Sequencer” di Caleb Coppock è una sorta di drum machine analogica che funziona attraverso la semplice conduttività elettrica. Due fili elettrici sfregano la superficie di un disco di carta rotante con →
Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras ::: Pink Tentacle
With the full-scale rollout of Japan’s cigarette vending machine age-verification system just around the corner, a Sankei Sports news reporter has confirmed the existence of a minor flaw: magazine photos can be used →
L’olandese Enviu, agenzia che promuove progetti di sostenibilità ambientale, e gli architetti della Döll, hanno sviluppato una serie di tecnologie capaci di realizzare club ad emissioni ridotte. L’invenzione chiave di questo progetto →
CONTACT au congrès ECAP et au FRUC
minimalistic telepresence
(tags: art net)
Fingerprints recovered from bullets after firing | Science | guardian.co.uk
Advanced methods in the surveillance society
(tags: hacking science)
Music Thing: The 100 most clichéd clichés in pop song titles
Tom Whitwell tag cloud obtained from the The Whitburn Project – a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Chart since 1890.
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CD – Alku
Una collaborazione iniziata oltre dieci anni fa, che ha dato origine a svariate performance e progetti musicali, quella tra Helmut Schafer & Zbigniew Karkowski, conclusasi con →
