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.
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31.01.03 Weekender: Digital, Groove Armada, Aquasky & Masterblaster, Metro Area, DJ Spooky.
– Venerdì 31 Gennaio: Agatha, al Brancaleone, Roma, un grande dj-set con Aquasky & Masterblaster, →
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31.01.03 Transmediale 03: Play Global!.
Inizia sabato 1 febbraio alla Haus der Kulturen der Welt di Berlino l’edizione 2003 di Transmediale, festival internazionale di media art. Quest’anno →
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31.01.03 Net-dissidente tunisino fa lo sciopero della fame in carcere.
Zouhair Yahaoui è un dissidente tunisino editore della ezine satirica Tunezine. Nel giugno 2002 è stato condannato →
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31.01.03 DNA Music, ricercatori biologici e artisti all’opera.
Un lancio dell’Associated Press ha fatto il giro delle maggiori testate online e non raccontando di un intrepido gruppo →
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30.01.03 Screen, telepresenza di piccoli marchingegni.
Le possibilità offerte dalla telepresenza via web, ossia dal poter manipolare oggetti da qualsiasi distanza tramite l’interfaccia di una pagina del →
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30.01.03 Conferenza di John Maeda a Ivrea.
Giovedì 30 gennaio alle 18:00 John Maeda terrà una conferenza all’Interaction Design Institute di Ivrea (torino) dal titolo ‘To digital →
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30.01.03 Cymbalism, web mixing su misura.
Mixing software per web personalizzati, è questo il business della Cymbalism, una software house inglese costituita da tre appassionati di groove →
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30.01.03 Gli acrononimi numerici dei cinesi in chat.
In un recente articolo del magazine online neozelandese NZoom vengono brevemente trattati gli acronimi utilizzati dai navigatori di lingua →
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29.01.03 Trapped, serial killer con interfaccia.
Trapped è l’opera di Sachiko Hayashi, che ha costruito un’inquietante e serrata narrativa sul fenomeno dei serial killer. Cercando di riprodurre →
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29.01.03 Un articolo fatto assemblando pezzi di spam.
L’idea di Mark Morford, redattore del San Francisco Gate non è nuovissima, ossia utilizzare pezzi dei messaggi di spamming →
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29.01.03 A SoaPOPera For Imacs, computer che si parlano e si ascoltano.
A SoaPOPera For Imacs è l’installazione del duo formato da G.H. Hovagimyan e Peter Sinclair, →
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29.01.03 Neuros, mp3 player per dj.
Neuros è un mp3 player della Digital Innovations che come la maggior parte degli altri prodotti di questo tipo permette di →
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28.01.03 Spol/U S, internet alla fermata del tram.
Spol/U S è un’applicazione di video su Internet trasmesso da uno spazio pubblico. Non si tratta di una banale →
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28.01.03 Open Spectrum, lo spazio wireless USA di dominio pubblico.
Forse è una proposta utopica per l’attuale mercato dell’etere, ma la forza delle grandi idee è proprio →
