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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07.01.03 Grazie a Bruce Perens, Prentice Hall adotta gli Open Source books.
Bruce Perens, non più impiegato dell’HP ma sempre più convinto nell’importanza dell’open source come filosofia →
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04.01.03 Vvvv, tool per real time video e controllo oggetti.
Rilasciata da pochi giorni la beta release di Vvvv un software per Windows utile per la sintesi →
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04.01.03 Phrack spiega come mandare in tilt il GPS civile.
L’ultimo numero di Phrack, storica zine elettronica di hacking, riporta un articolo su come mandare in tilt →
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04.01.03 ionic.nifca.org, arte digitale in tre dimensioni.
Ionic.nifca.org è il dipartimento dedicato ai nuovi media del Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), che intende uscire polemicamente dalla →
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04.01.03 I primi anni cinquanta liberi da copyright in Europa.
Le leggi della Comunità Europea tutelano il diritto d’autore di un artista per 50 anni (comparati ai →
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03.01.03 Visual Thesaurus, un software che esplora architetture linguistiche ipertestuali.
Da che l’innovazione tecnologica ha reso possibile una diffusione su larga scala di media si assiste ad →
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03.01.03 DJ Spooky remixa ‘Birth of a Nation’, capolavoro del cinema muto.
Durante il lancio della piattaforma Creative Commons, Paul Miller alias DJ Spooky ha presentato un →
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03.01.03 Decasia, film di celluloide riciclata.
Decasia di Bill Morrison è un film costituito esclusivamene da materiale filmico danneggiato da tempo, recuperato da diversi archivi statunitensi. Il →
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31.12.02 New Year’s Eve: Rebibbia, Circo Togni, Eurofortezza, Alex Silverfish, Cause’n’fx, NYE Link Party in streaming.
Località inusuali per concerti e djing nella notte di capodanno 2003: →
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31.12.02 Interferenze Cerebrali.
L’American Neurological Association ha rivelato che Christian Gerloff dell’Università di Tuebingen (Germania) sta sperimentando un sistema che riduce il ‘tinnitus’, ossia i rumori che →
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31.12.02 AHA, nuova mailing list di Artivism, Hacking, Activism.
Proprio allo scadere del 2002 nasce la mailing list del progetto AHA (Artivism, Hacking, Activism) già attivo pubblicamente →
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30.12.02 PanoramicPortraits, identità costruite dal web.
PanoramicPortraits è l’opera di Manon de Boer commissionata al fine di esplorare il public domain di internet. A partire dai suoi →
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30.12.02 Dot-store, feticci della new economy.
Dot-store è l’ultima creazione di web art di Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, coppia di artisti inglesi pronti a cogliere lo →
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30.12.02 Pirat_@zione_project: Babbo Natale anti-copyright.
Il 24 dicembre scorso una coraggiosa quanto ironica azione di alcuni militanti del ‘csaPaci’Paciana – Pirat_@zione_project’ ha turbato la stantia atmosfera del →
