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.
Provocatoria e divertente l’iniziativa canadese dell’Institute for Inifinitely Small Things, che ha infiltrato una quarantina di copie del New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition in Librerie e negozi di libri →
Jonctions – Verbindingen 10: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields
electronic culture radical festival in Brussels
(tags: art media)
Shooting Pixels exhibition
making pictures of the screen content
(tags: art media)
Le ’emozioni’ hanno storicamente tracciato il confine fra l’uomo e la macchina. Solo in un futuro remoto (quello della fantascienza, di solito) le macchine erano in grado di essere intrecciate alle emozioni. Ora, nella vita →
CD – Scape
Suoni di tromba, percussioni, sample ed effetti elettronici articolati in minimalistici e sperimentali copia-incolla. Frequenze di derivazione jazz, ricostruite in forme più contemporanee, grazie all’apporto laptop di →
SVEN Computer Vision Software available to the public
Software by Amy Alexander specifically designed to track people in uncontrolled public settings
(tags: software hacktivism art video)
Secondo PierLuigi Capucci, curatore insieme a Franco Torriani dell’edizione italiana di Art Biotech di Jens Hauser, la relazione tra arte e vivente segue due percorsi distinti. Il primo, più antico, ha le radici nella →
CD – Riz(h)ome
Titolo lunghissimo (‘I don’t take my head to see HIGHER becouse the sky is landing over my neck’) per il terzo ed ultimo cd che completa ‘la trilogia della voce’, →
Con il termine retorica generalmente si intende l’arte o tecnica di persuasione attraverso l’uso del linguaggio scritto, parlato o visivo. Tuttavia gli studi contemporanei di retorica includono uno spettro piu’ ampio di pratiche e →
CD – 12K
Avvolgenti droni, sospensioni melanconiche e sequenze glitch’n’cuts, tessiture rarefatte ed anche melodiche, infuse da armonie iterate in sintetici accordi e frequenze radio ottenute modulando onde corte, utilizzando insieme anche →
[This is a talk presented at the Game Culture conference in Novi Sad]
Italy has a strong political tradition, having also generated various related creative movements wisely mixing politics and art (like free radio in →
Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother | The Register
Forget the web, we want to watch real crimes.
(tags: tv hacktivism media net video)
L’installazione ‘Privileges’ di Diane Landry consiste principalmente nell’alterazione semantica dell’ oggetto di uso commune ‘libro’. Un dizionario viene infatti trasformato in un flip book per animare la metafora dei privilegi culturali. Il numero →
CD – Illegal Art
Nel panorama in costante cambiamento dell’uso specifico sei campioni in musica, l’etichetta Illegal Art rappresenta una sfida artistica costante al diritto d’autore e ai suoi zelanti gendarmi. →
