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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10.02.03 Nuovo numero di Subsol, messe di contenuti.
é online il nuovo atteso numero di Subsol, magazine di testi critici di cultura e arte dei nuovi media →
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10.02.03 Sonic Light 03, suono luce e spazio.
S’inaugura il 13 febbraio ad Amsterdam la nona edizione del festival Sonic Acts Sonic Light 2003, composed light, articulated →
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10.02.03 Microsoft Hit Wizard, sarcastica produzione automatica.
Ha giˆ fatto il giro dei blog questa schermata contraffatta di Microsoft Hit Wizard, che esprime con il linguaggio dell’interfaccia →
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10.02.03 Machinima, film con gli scenari dei videogame.
Machinima ? il termine con cui si definisce la pratica di realizzare film attraverso un ambiente tridimensionale virtuale e →
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10.02.03 Let’s Save The Public Domain!.
Il collettivo InfoAnarchy, ha realizzato una “action mailing list” per andare contro la legge sul copyright che rende i libri di →
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10.02.03 Icon’s Story, la lotta intestina delle icone di XP.
Icon’s Story ? un breve filmato in Flash, realizzato dal Maso digital studio, che racconta la lotta →
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10.02.03 Anti-Gravity, la bellezza dell’organizzazione degli spazi astratti.
Lo spazio astratto e la sua interfaccia sono tematiche ‘liquide’, sfuggevoli all’irregimentazione tanto dell’arte, quanto dell’architettura o del design. →
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10.02.03 1970: la stampante IBM 1403 suona.
In largo anticipo sulle orchestrazioni dei [The User] e della loro sinfonia per stampanti ad →
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07.02.03 ZNC Browser, interpretare il testo con suoni e colori.
È disponibile la versione 2.0 dello ZNC Browser di Peter Luining, un software gratuito per MacOSX e →
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07.02.03 Weekender: DJ Spooky, Metro Area, Santos.
– Venerd“ 7 Febbraio 2003: Da New York, per la prima volta in Italia, Morgan Geist e Darshan Jesrani, ovvero →
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07.02.03 Surveillance & Society, rivista internazionale di studi sulla sorveglianza.
Nuova uscita della rivista ‘Surveillance & Society, the international journal of surveillance studies‘, che tratta in modo →
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07.02.03 Minimal Porn, il porno essenziale.
Il collettivo Sexyshock di Bologna non è nuovo ad iniziative che cerchino di mettere in crisi i classici stereotipi della rappresentazione →
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06.02.03 Ten Second Film, concorso per sequenze iperbrevi.
Se c’è una correlazione fra la sempre maggiore essenzialità dell’informazione, la riduzione del tempo libero e l’esplosione dei festival →
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06.02.03 GoogleSynth, immagini inedite dagli archivi di Google.
GoogleSynth è un software sviluppato da Paul Andrews che genera un’immagine di sintesi a partire dai dati recuperati in →
