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.
Il progetto “Logo_Wiki” di Wayne Clements cataloga alcune delle istituzioni (aziende e agenzie governative) coinvolte nell’editing di pagine di Wikipedia per rivelare come queste entità stiano manipolando l’informazione sulla libera enciclopedia online. Clements sostituisce →
CD – Flux
Con sporadiche uscite, fin dagli anni novanta, in maniera certo atipica, Frank Rothkamm ha attraversato differenti ambiti produttivi, territori artistici essenzialmente di matrice industrial-experimental e avantgarde, contando parallelamente su →
cre.ations.net – Creation: Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game
Dance Dance Revolution for fingers and iPhone.
(tags: mobile music media videogame)
DVICE: Go Amish with the Hand-Crank USB Power Charger
Charging with muscles activity instead of electricity.
(tags: hacking media hacktivism)
Il giapponese Kenichi Okada, col suo Emotoscope, lavora molto sulla percezione del video nei singoli individui e sul loro background emotivo. L’emotoscope in sè è una videocamera che l’autore porta in giro, per →
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
Sempre più raffinato l’artwork della serie Mort Aux Vaches, per questa occasione affidato a Piotr Mordel, graphic designer e fondatore dell’atipico ‘The Club of Polish Losers’ a →
Nine Inch Nails – the slip
New Nine Inch Nails album under Creative Commons free download.
(tags: copyright music)
YouTomb
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
(tags: copyright video tv hacktivism)
Sono trascorsi ventiquattro anni da quando quattro studenti di Livorno organizzarono una delle più famose beffe della storia dell’arte italiana. Lo scherzo relativo al ritrovamento di perdute sculture di Modigliani fece tra →
CD – Recycling Records
Sound recycling a tutto tondo quello di questa omonima label, un progetto nato appunto dalla volontà di promuovere l’idea plunderphonica, basata →
Homo Ludens Ludens foto set
Il solo gran parlare dei videogame (che non si ferma da cinque anni almeno) poteva costituire un’ottima ragione per spingere la mastodontica istituzione asturiana “Laboral” (che s’interessa →
CD – Staubgold
Duo formato tra Colonia e Berlino quello dei klangwart, composto da Markus Detmer e Timo Reuber, calibratissimi nell’adoperarsi in sempre nuove combinazioni partendo da un ben aquisito catalogo di suoni. →
YouTube – Varèse/ Xénakis/Le Corbusier – poeme électronique (1958)
Originally performed during the universal exhibition of Bruxelles in 1958 into the wonderful Philips pavillion.
(tags: art media video visual)
HACK.Fem.EAST
Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe, Exhibition, performances, meetings
10 May – 22 June 2008, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Berlin
(tags: hacking hacktivism media net)
User Labor – A framework for sustaining user labor across the web
An open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services.
(tags: hacktivism net software)
The internal ‘orchestra’ of the earth – The Boston Globe
Listening earth vibrations
(tags: science sound)
