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.
La “Goldbergian Voting Machine“, costruita in otto settimane da un gruppo di studenti dell’UCLA’s Design | Media Arts, é una macchina per votare perfettamente funzionante, costruita con venti singoli moduli, →
TRONDHEIM MATCHMAKING 2008
Festival for art and technology, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre (Norway)
(tags: art festival media sound)
Machines that Almost Fall Over by Michael Kontopoulos is a sculpture made of several angular boards with a simple clockwork mechanism mounted on them that raises and then drops a hammer onto the →
mæve installation
Placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media. mæve is designed and developed by the Interface Design team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
(tags: art visual →
Golan Levin, media artist e professore associato di Electronic Time-Based Art alla Carnegie Mellon University, ha creato “Double-Taker (Snout)“, un’installazione interattiva che esamina le connessioni dell’incontro di sguardi fra specie diverse, la coreografia →
Open Ear
Open Ear, is a loose collaborative group of like minded individuals creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site specific venues. Our principal interests include collaboration, live performance, generative audio-visual work, hybridised art, →
dance-tech.net
dance-tech.net is conceived as a social on-line destination for international movement artist, theorists, technologist and organizations intersecting embodied performance and new media
(tags: art video performance)
Enrico Costanza, dottorando presso il Laboratorio di media e design della Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale di Losanna, ha focalizzato la propria ricerca sul design di oggetti in grado di avvicinare il mondo digitale a →
CD – Baskaru
Terzo ed ultimo episodio della serie Hypernatural, ricerca ispirata dai suoni organici dell’estremo oriente, dalle trasparenze sensibilissime, dagli intrecci di registrazioni spesso astratte ed eteree. Evanescenze auditive che Yoshio →
CD – Synesthesia Recordings
Stampato in proprio dagli stessi autori, Federico Placidi e Matteo Milani, l’Unidentified Sound Project sotto le spurie stilizzate del ‘Quantum Dripping’ da il via (con →
Ososphere
Les Nuits Electroniques de l’Ososphère. Digital art and music festival in Strasbourg.
(tags: art media music festival)
Máquinas&Almas
Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (“Souls&Machines”) explores the fact that, at the beginning of the 21st century, art and science →
DanmatsuMouse
The death of a mouse, reflected in video and in cursor beahaviors. Software art by Exonemo
(tags: art software video)
Zipper Orchestra :: J o o Y o u n ::
The Zipper Orchestra is an interactive video installation that combines a combination →
pieqf.allshookup.org
Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) is a geologically interactive, kinetic earthwork that has been installed in the township of Parkfield, Central California. This machine controlled earthwork is triggered by near real-time reported Californian earthquakes from Magnitude M 0.1 and above.
(tags: →
Sept. 19, 1982: Can’t You Take a Joke? :-)
First emoticon
(tags: net preservation)
HP Unveils Ultra Fashionista Designer Mini-Notebook
Ultra sleek and fashionable notebook
(tags: mobile media)
Screens | Digital Fringe
Digital Fringe is looking to find screens of every size across Melbourne, regional Victoria and →
