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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05.12.02 La censura in rete più efficace è quella cinese
La Cina ha il sistema di censura in rete più efficace. Questo è quanto sostiene uno studio →
– Venerdì a Torino, al Notorius
.Valletta + Ricciardone, house .i
– Sabato a Roma, agli Ex-Magazzini
.Paul Ascension (Mission Traxx Records), house .uk
– Sabato a Bologna, al LInk
.Embryo, (nella →
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03.12.02 Censure RIAA, mp3 nelle aziende e cifre p2p.
– L’ultima arrogante minaccia della RIAA ha colpito il quotidiano telematico ‘Register’, che ha per tutta risposta ripubblicato →
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03.12.02 Netizens – cittadini della rete, mostra di net art a Roma.
Netizens – cittadini della rete è la mostra che si inaugura il 4 dicembre alla →
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03.12.02 Netizens – cittadini della rete, mostra di net art a Roma.
Netizens – cittadini della rete è la mostra che si inaugura il 4 dicembre alla →
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03.12.02 M-Multimedia 6, i migliori video di Transmediale a Torino.
‘M-Multimedia‘ è il nome di una serie di eventi curati da Lorenzo Taiuti a Torino e in →
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03.12.02 Laos: internet a pedali.
Il Laos è uno dei paesi più poveri dell’Asia, e nonostante i suoi ritardi nello sviluppo, sta cominciando a far diffondere la →
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02.12.02 Vagamundo: uno street-game digitale sull’immigrazione clandestina.
Nato nell’estate del 2002, in piena campagna statunitense anti-terrorismo, il game Vagamundo – a Migrant’s Tale, di Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, →
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02.12.02 Ogg Vorbis per Palm.
La Aerodrome Software ha rilasciato una prima beta del suo audio player per Palm che supporta il formato di compressione libero Ogg →
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02.12.02 MapMaker, il territorio decostruito.
MapMaker è definito dai suoi autori Joshua Davis e Jemma Gura “una macchina generativa, casuale e passiva che alimenta il costante bombardamento →
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02.12.02 Art in sexual contest, l’arte occultata nel porno.
Marc Dorinel è un effervescente artista dell’est europeo residente in Svezia. Fra le sue dissacranti operazioni ha confezionato →
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29.11.02 Weekender: Xploding Plastix, The Acid Mothers Temple, Tim Baker, Highfish, Suv.
Al Link, di Bologna, Giovedì 28 novembre, live degli Xploding Plastix, gruppo norvegese, elettronica e →
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29.11.02 Oblique Strategies online.
Create nel 1975 dal musicista e produttore elettronico Brian Eno e dall’artista britannico Peter Schmidt, le Oblique Strategies si presentano in forma di →
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29.11.02 Buy Nothing Day, sciopero dei consumi per un giorno.
Si tiene il 29 novembre il /Buy Nothing Day, una giornata di mobilitazione organizzata dagli attivisti canadesi →
