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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17.02.03 Public Internet Project: la rete per tutti.
Il Public Internet Project è un’associazione di New York il cui obiettivo principale è di ‘promuovere accesso aperto ad →
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17.02.03 INN_SS02_e1, sound construction kit.
L’estrema duttilità della programmazione visiva del web sta portando alla dissoluzione del concetto stesso di sequencing, sostituito da un discreto numero di →
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17.02.03 Flopla, suoni e forme in simbiosi.
La dimensione grafica animata del web e le capacità della banda allargata sono materiali grezzi con cui innescare applicazioni sinestetiche →
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17.02.03 La banda larga come diritto della persona.
Il digital divide si combatte dall’inizio. Questo dev’essere stato il principio che ha portato la KHC (Kentucky Housing Corporation), →
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17.02.03 Days in a Day, solitudine urbana in grafica flash.
Days in a Day è una narrazione in Flash della solitudine di una persona all’interno di territori →
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14.02.03 Archivio conferenze della Tate Modern Gallery.
é finalmente disponibile online l’archivio delle conferenze effettuate nel 2001 e 2002 presso la Tate Modern Gallry di Londra. Curate →
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14.02.03 Injunction Generator, legal art degli Ubermorgen.
Con il solito spirito controverso e iconoclasta gli Ubermorgen, formazione artistica nata da alcuni membri di Etoy, hanno realizzato The →
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14.02.03 Concrete_Maschine, il testo come composizione visuale astratta.
Concrete_Maschine è un opera concettuale di Johannes Auer che prende spunto dalle avanguardie storiche e alle loro pratiche radicali →
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14.02.03 Audioscrobbler, la musica che mi piacerebbe.
Audioscrobbler è un progetto universitario di Richard Jones che cerca di analizzare la musica ascoltata per suggerire nuovi artisti e →
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13.02.03 Weekender: V_, Le Chemin des Machines, Giradischi Contro La Guerra, Make Cheese, Not War, Philip Jeck, Badmarsh, John Duncan, Dino Felipe.
– Venerdì 14 Febbraio: al →
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13.02.03 The Agent’s Story, narrativa in continua mutazione.
Ospite pi? recente dalla sezione Artport del sito Whitney Museum, The Agent’s Story ? il lavoro di Noah Wardrip-Fruin, →
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13.02.03 Diamondgate, astratte superfici reattive.
Diamondgate è il titolo che accomuna di una serie di esperimenti realizzati da Al Jarnow della Protozone Interactive. Questi moduli in Flash →
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13.02.03 Contro l’idiozia della guerra: Rooting Out Evil, Webcam in Iraq e John Perry Barlow.
Mentre l’ultimo Internet Security Threat Report della Symantec definisce in una nota/strafalcione →
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12.02.03 The Chrono-Files, from time-based art to database.
Aperta già da qualche giorno all’Ort für aktuelle Kunst und neue Medien di Monaco (Germania) la mostra The Chrono-Files, →
