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.
Interactive paper sounds exciting -New Scientist Tech
touch sensitive (and reacting) paper
(tags: media)
Harvard University Press – ISBN 0674025199
Dopo aver remixato ‘Il Capitale’ con genuina cultura hacker (in ‘ Manifesto Hacker‘), McKenzie Wark ha sentito l’urgenza di passare ad un altro focolaio nell’attuale dibattito →
CD – Hefty
Delicati sperimentalismi quelli di Hirohito Ihara, compositore giapponese fondatore di Radicalfashion (forse ispirato dall’omonima mostra curata da David Toop al Victoria and Albert Museum nel 2001), dilatati negli accordi pianistici →
Xerox adds clever anti-counterfeit measures to standard colour printers – gizmag
technology vs. crime vs. technology
(tags: media hacking)
$7500 buys a surfer’s life | The Australian
Sell your life on Ebay for charity
(tags: media art hacking)
CD – Satamile
Secondo album per Silicon Scally (aka Carl Finlow) che dopo il precedente ‘Dark Matter’ articola ancora efficaci sequenze electro ibridando le sonorità tradizionali di questo genere stilistico in forme →
Cinemas use night goggles to nab pirates| Technology| Reuters
Trying to defend copyright by any means necessary
(tags: copyright hacktivism visual)
Japan’s latest mobile craze: novels delivered to your handset | Economist.com
Ebook that works
(tags: literature media mobile)
Venezuela’s counter-revolution won’t be televised… but it →
CD Gramophone player
Look and feel of players in different ages mixed up.
(tags: music)
The 337 Project
This fairly large scale work involved 144 graphiti artists adding their artistic interpretation to a soon-to-be-demolished building.
(tags: art media preservation)
The Market Function of Piracy – Mises →
The Simulation Argument
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
(tags: media hacking)
CD- !K7 Records
Delicatissima selezione delle colonne sonore per il cinema commissionate a Matthew Herbert, poi realizzate anche in parte abbandonando il suo tipico approccio elettronico ma pur sempre evidenziando tratti musicali abbastanza →
Yoshio Machida – Texas Vino – Amorfon
Johann Johannsson – Part 4/ibm 729 – 4AD
Kotra and Zavoloka – Out Of Nowhere – Kvitnu
Dimitri Voudouris – Praxis – Pogus
Keene – The River – Poeta →
RIAA (Robotic Intergalactic Astro-Artists)
A mashup tribute to the pioneers of electronic music
(tags: music mashup sound)
Vinyl Workout
Visual/physical projected record player. Made by Theodore Watson.
(tags: art music sound)
In the morning of 31 May 1997 (it was a saturday) the first Neural webpages were uploaded via ftp on a friend’s server. A simple ‘online update’ with some brief news and reviews was →
CD – Rephlex
Fa tutto da solo (e non si scherzi su questo) Andy Jenkinson, nel suo studio privato, aggiungendo ad apparecchiature alquanto spartane estro neo-acid e dissonanti attitudini. Audio-abuso casalingo che scherza omaggiando →
Steve Beck – Paper TV
filtering photonic light from cathode-ray tube
(tags: art tv visual)
Pacemaker – The pocket-size DJ system
minimal djing
(tags: music)
