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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10.12.02 Hearing Colors, i colori che risuonano.
Presentato all’ISEA 2002, ‘Hearing Colors‘ è un lavoro della sigla nonsection, che cerca di innescare nell’utente la sinestesia fra suono →
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10.12.02 Ether, compilation di musica generativa online.
Organizzati dal musicista australiano Ian Andrews, i due volumi della compilation online Ether vertono i loro pezzi sui contributi volontari →
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07.12.02 Zelig.rc2, l’information veut ?tre libre.
Comincia il 9 dicembre a Parigi lo Zelig.rc2, l’evento più vicino ad un hackmeeting che si organizzi in Francia. L’evento rilancia →
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07.12.02 Weekender: Club To Club, Trace, Nicola Conte, Dj Food, Terroritmo, Retina.it, Rennie Pilgrem.
In principio vince Torino, Club To Club, grandissimi appuntamenti dislocati in diversi spazi →
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07.12.02 Medi@terra 02 New Platforms.
Si è inaugurata il 6 dicembre Medi@terra 02 New Platforms l’annuale festival di Atene sull’arte dei nuovi media. Quest’anno ha come filo →
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07.12.02 Giant Step in animazione geometrica.
Uno degli standard più usati del jazz è certamente ‘Giant Steps’ di John Coltrane, brano del 1959, risaputo dagli appassionati di →
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07.12.02 Adam Connelly, il porno dipinto in pixel.
Adam Connelly ha strutturato il suo sito senza testi, lasciando all’intuizione del visitatore la comprensione delle sue opere. L’artista →
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06.12.02 Il suono freddo.
Un frigorifero che per raffreddare usa le onde sonore. È questo l’incredibile prototipo presentato da Steven Garrett, professore di termoacustica, alla Penn State →
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06.12.02 Il sito satirico della Dow Chemical Corporation oscurato
In un comunicato pubblico gli RTMark hanno denunciato il riuscito oscuramento del sito satirico (Dow-chemical.com) dedicato alla Dow →
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06.12.02 RealTime, la psicogeografia personale in GPS.
RealTime è un progetto che ha dotato per due mesi tutti gli abitanti di Amsterdam felici di aderirvi di un →
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06.12.02 New Media Poetry, parole mutanti e versi ricombinanti.
La contaminazione dei linguaggi e l’utilizzo creativo dei supporti artistici nel secolo scorso ha spinto un radicale rinnovamento →
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05.12.02 Techne 02, installazioni interattive a Milano.
È sempre aperta presso lo spazio Spazio Oberdan di Milano ‘TECHNE 02: Tra arte e tecnologia – Viaggio nel mondo →
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05.12.02 FLxER, mixing audio/video ad interfaccia web.
FLxER è un mixer video, programamto in Flash MX, sperimentabile tramite un’interfaccia web che ne rende immediato il funzionamento. Quattro →
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05.12.02 ‘Erratum Errata’, Dj Spooky remixing Marcel Duchamp
È stato presentato il 28 novembre al MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art) di Los Angeles, il nuovo progetto di →
