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.
minicdr – Koyuki
Microsonoritá, elettroacustica ambient e destrutturazioni audio sono esperite dal produttore texano Josh Russell negli inviluppi d’una estetica ultra-minimale fra click sommessi ed altrettanto rarefatti droni di matrice sintetica. Evoluzioni →
Play Cultures photo set
La cosiddetta “game culture” sta diventando un vasto territorio culturale che va dalle sue origini pop ai crescenti studi accademici. “Play Cultures” è stato un titolo appropriato per un →
URBAN SONAR
A personal space monitoring system that senses and records your moving surroundings through the urban environment for review at a later time.
(tags: hacking science software mobile)
Echochrome for the PlayStation 3 and PSP – YouTube
A conceptual videogame
(tags: art video videogame →
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa – Scandinavian Tourist – The Helen Scarsdale Agency
Schurer / Steinbruchel – track one – Nonvisualobjects
Mahmoud Refat – Untitled 1 – Mort Aux Vaches
Yuta Segawa – Fourth Shift – CNC
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G.S.A. – Global Security Alliance
Security fears as art, directed by Konrad Becker.
(tags: hacktivism art media hacking)
Big Ideas: Don’t get any – ‘Nude’ by Radiohead -YouTube
James Houston video of old gadget and low fi hardware recreating a beautiful version of Radiohead’s “Nude.”
(tags: music video hacking)
The Integratron
The Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert
(tags: music science)
book – The MIT Press – ISBN-13: 978-0262162302
Il prof. Frank Popper è stato all’avanguardia degli studi in arte e tecnologia con il suo celebrato testo “Art of the Electronic Age” pubblicatto →
CD – Audiobulb
Luoghi non immaginari ma che evidentemente con gli stessi sogni degli autori ed i loro intimi pensieri hanno molto a che fare, ‘Favourite Places’, perché ‘ci sono posti in →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN-13: 978-0262524872
La disamina accademica dei videogiochi sta vivendo il suo momento d’oro con una prolifica produzione di saggi. Nel mentre i dipartimenti di “Game Studies” →
CD – Tzadik
Acustica e lieve elettronica, editando strumenti musicali assai tradizionali, sonorità sensibili, calibratissime ma spiazzanti, sia per l’intensità dell’esecuzione, sia per l’estrema varietà dei passaggi, improvvisazione e creativo →
Sun Run Sun è il titolo di un’installazione audio realizzata dalla media artist Yolande Harris durante il proprio progetto di residenza artistica presso il Netherlands Media Art Institute (ex Montevideo) di Amsterdam. →
CD – Cnc Record
Improvvisazioni di chitarra, sensibilissime e iterate, registrate durante uno speciale evento al ‘Dotmov Festival’ a Sendai, in Giappone, poi rieditate in studio dallo stesso Yuta Segawa lasciando fluire →
DVD – Weiser Music
Sono stati sempre egualmente importanti per i Rechenzentrum immagini e ritmi elettronici. L’uso del video come uno strumento e l’attenzione ad una qualità visiva nella musica rientrano appieno, infatti, →
