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.
.emusic
13.12.02 V_, festival di vjing al Bulk di Milano.
V_ è una rassegna promossa da Box e Otolab, collettivi di ricerca audiovisiva milanesi, ospitata dal c.s.a. bulk →
.hacktivism
13.12.02 Plug & Pray, scegli la tua religione.
Sviluppato in italiano e inglese, svelandone così la collocazione geografica, Plug & Pray è un riuscito sito beffa che →
.art
13.12.02 Pix Festival party per artisti digitali a Lille.
Sisvolge dal 13 al 15 dicembre a Lille (Francia), il Pix Festival, un happening poco formale che vuol →
.art
13.12.02 Doublecell, web art genetica.
Doublecell è il secondo ‘volume’ di Singlecell (vedi), raccolta di opere di web design e web art che stavolta indagano le coppie, →
.art
12.12.02 Poetrica, post-poesie algebriche.
Poetrica è il nome dato dall’artista brasiliana Giselle Beiguelman alle sue ‘post-poesie’. Queste poesie visuali sono composte secondo operazioni algebriche e font non →
.hacktivism
12.12.02 Neuromarketing: scanning cerebrali per tarare la pubblicità.
È stato definito dai suoi creatori ‘neuromarketing’, e consiste nel rilevare tramite risonanza magnetica le reazioni cerebrali all’esposizione di →
.art
12.12.02 DiaryU, la stessa persona dietro più blog personali.
DiaryU è un esperimento sociale e letterario allo stesso tempo, in quanto si compone di cinque differenti blog →
.emusic
12.12.02 Cello, robot art sonora.
Beatriz da Costa è un’artista che indaga le possibilità della robot art, allo stesso tempo affascinata dal suono. Il suo ‘Cello‘ integra →
.art
11.12.02 Borders are everywhere, non-luoghi di confine reali e immateriali.
“Borders are everywhere, not just between countries or states” (i confini sono ovunque, non solo fra i →
.hacktivism
11.12.02 Norika 3, la microcamera da ingoiare.
La prima videocamera da ingoiare è stata messa a punto dall’RF System laboratory di Nagano (Giappone), al fine di ottenere →
.art
11.12.02 Generative Art and Design Conference.
Comincia l’11 dicembre al Politecnico di Milano, la quinta conferenza internazionale di Arte Generativa, diretta come sempre da Celestino Soddu, che →
.art
10.12.02 Pattern Recognition, il nuovo libro di William Gibson.
Uscirà a febbraio 2003 negli USA, ‘Pattern Recognition‘, il nuovo libro di William Gibson, uno dei massimi esponenti →
.hacktivism
10.12.02 No War Television, la cronaca via satellite di chi non vuole la guerra.
Il 10 dicembre in contemporanea alle molte fiaccolate previste in tutt’Italia, sarà attivata →
.art
10.12.02 The Market-O-Matic (1.0), testi critici automatici.
Sviluppato dagli artisti tecnicamente avanzati del Lab404.com, The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version] è un software con interfaccia web che →
