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.
One Second Video Festival
The shortest (digital) video festival
(tags: video tv net)
The Echo Nest
Web service to deeply and visually analize an uploaded mp3 music file.
(tags: music software sound)
Il neozelandese Karl D.D. Willis, noto per le sue collaborazioni artistiche con Nao Tokui sotto la sigla Sonasphere e come star della innovativa label giapponese Progressive Form, si fa apprezzare anche per la realizzazione →
CD – Shitkatapult
Atmosfere dub avvolgenti, influssi ‘retrofuture’ (particolarmente evidenti in ‘Breakin’, nello stile tipico di ‘Popcorn’, seminale hit proto-elettronica) articolati in groove assai densi. Ibridate sequenze techno e tradizione reggae-roots, propensione che →
Mental Detox Week – formerly TV-turn-off Week – Adbusters
Switch off your personal and mass media for a week.
(tags: hacktivism media tv)
Open Space 2008 at ICC Tokyo
The new annual exhibiton and artist conference series at the ICC Tokyo.
(tags: art media)
Preemptive Media :: AIR
Helping people self identifying pollution sources.
(tags: art hacktivism media mobile)
CD – Nexsound
Folktronica lo-fi assai trasversale e dalle molte delicate sfumature, quella scaturita dall’incontro fra Andrey Kiritchenko e Saralunden, un progetto collaborativo attuato dallo Swedish Institute nel Maggio del →
Con l’avvento di protocolli peer-to-peer efficienti e mentre le applicazioni che li supportano (come BitTorrent) diventano il medium essenziale per la distribuzione su Internet di contenuti protetti e non dal diritto d’autore, non →
LAX will use body imaging scanning – Los Angeles Times
Scaring 3D body scanning device for airports.
(tags: hacktivism visual)
Live in the Living
A public concert in your spacious living room.
(tags: media music)
cd-rom
Stringhe di codici e immagini, ricontestualizzazioni integrate da interfacce GUI, paradigma di sviluppo che mira a consentire all’utente d’interagire col computer manipolando graficamente degli oggetti. Relazioni che nel ‘prologo’, detournando ‘Introducing →
Shoot’em up (or shump for shot) è un sottogenere nel settore dei videogiochi di natura piuttosto stilizzata, in cui il giocatore controlla un mezzo o un personaggio e combatte un ampio numero di →
The World Is Daft
A fan-based collectively produced bootleg dvd of a Daft Punk live concert.
(tags: mashup video music media)
Non bisogna certo essere appassionati di videogiochi o aver vissuto l’adolescenza negli anni ’70 o ’80 per conoscere classici come Space invaders, Pacman o Tetris. La loro potenza iconica si mantiene intatta →
