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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14.01.03 Fly Guy, animazione surreale in bianco e nero.
Personaggi strambi, da un diavolo boxeur ad un alieno rockettaro, popolano il cielo di ‘Fly Guy‘, un surreale →
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14.01.03 BiometricSoundEngine, il suono su misura degli occhi.
Le applicazioni della biometrica sono spesso associate a forme di sorveglianza e controllo come l’analisi di parti del nostro →
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14.01.03 32.000 points of light, mondi descritti con la luce e il suono.
32.000 points of light è un’installazione immersiva →
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13.01.03 Teleferique, esperimenti pubblici di net art.
Teleferique è un ‘downloading art server’ indipendente e collettivo, fisicamente dislocato a Créteil (Francia) nell’hinterland parigino. Si tratta di uno →
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13.01.03 Floppyswop, scambiare musica e media in un floppy disk.
I floppy disk non sono ancora nell’elenco dei ‘dead media’ di Bruce Sterling e non hanno ancora →
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13.01.03 Digitalsistersindeed.org, personale a Trieste.
Si è inaugurata il 10 gennaio presso la galleria LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea di Trieste ‘Digitalsistersindeed.org‘, prima mostra personale di Domiziana Giordano. Le foto →
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13.01.03 Spam del 1978. C’era anche Stallman.
Forse il primo spam della storia è stato spedito l1 maggio 1978 ed è stato opera del →
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10.01.03 Weekender: Sostegno RadiOndaRossa, Roger Sanchez, Daddy G, Ghost Cauldron.
Venerdì 10 Gennaio: Officine Belforte, Torino, The Black Strofe Party, Ivan Smagghe (Paris, Output Recordings), Sergio Ricciardone →
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10.01.03 Twilight, uno schermo flottante.
I lavori del gruppo francese Hehe.org, formato da Helen Evans e Heiko Hansen, sono installazioni che interagiscono fisicamente con l’utente creando uno →
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10.01.03 Transmutational : Meta : Processor, correlazioni fra 3D e musica.
Transmutational : Meta : Processorè una delle installazioni di Troy Innocent, artista australiano attivo da più →
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10.01.03 SmarTruck II, spiare le email dal fuoristrada.
Nella cieca caccia al nemico invisibile, la U.S. Army (l’esercito americano) ha presentato al salone dell’auto di Detroit un →
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10.01.03 Web art italiana: personale di RGB e concorso CMYK.
– Una selezione degli ultimi tre anni di produzioni di Mauro Ceolin e del suo RGBProject (vedi), →
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09.01.03 Packet, web art mensile presso la New Langton Arts Gallery.
La New Langton Arts, galleria d’arte di San Francisco ha inaugurato per il mese di Gennaio →
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09.01.03 La Sony finanzia ricerche su compositori artificiali.
Eduardo Reck Miranda è un ricercatore dei Sony Computer Science Laboratories, dedicato alla creazione di agenti software dotati di →
