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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23.11.02 Netstrike europeo contro gli arresti.
Organizzato da i tedeschi ‘E-Cowboys for Peace’, il netstrike europeo contro la repressione degli esponenti del movimento noglobal si tiene il →
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23.11.02 Linux Day in più di sessanta città.
Più di sessanta Linux User Group italiani saranno attivi durante il weekend nell’organizzazione su tutto il territorio nazionale del →
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23.11.02 In Between, web art del confine fra gli elementi.
In Between è una sequenza di accostamenti, pensati per evidenziare i confini fra gli oggetti che li →
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23.11.02 Fibreculture 2002: Networks of Excellence.
Si tiene dal 22 al 24 novembre la seconda Fibreculture conference 2002, denominata ‘Networks of Excellence‘, al Museum of Contemporary Art →
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23.11.02 Caution, l’assalto allo spazio udibile dell’utente.
ƒmilie Pitoiset è l’autore della spigolosa opera di arte sonora Caution, una semplice quanto efficace implementazione di tecniche web per →
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23.11.02 Stop the war con la PlayStation + Tiny Signs of Hope.
La PlayStation istiga alla violenza? Non proprio. Qui è usata per combattere la guerra e →
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22.11.02 Pixxelpoint, computer art slovena.
Comincia il 22 novembre l’edizione 2002 di Pixxelpoint, festival di computer art che si svolge a Nova Gorica in Slovenia. Quest’anno la →
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22.11.02 Photomontage.com, loop e immagini di Shirin Kouladjie.
L’iraniana Shirin Kouladjie torna ad affollare il suo sito Photomontage.com con creazioni personali, figlie di quella passione per il →
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22.11.02 IIlegal Art, festival plagiarista a New York.
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age è una mostra Partendo dallo stesso principio che ha guidato →
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22.11.02 The Brianwave Generator, suoni binaurali per windows.
Oltre ad Autozen per macchine Linux (vedi), esiste anche un software gratuito per Windows che sviluppa suoni binaurali opportunamente →
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21.11.02 Nino, l’identità ipermutevole come homepage.
il nome ‘Nino’ è l’unico tratto in comune fra le infinite identità che fornite di un cognome, un’occupazione e una foto →
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21.11.02 Lfoundation, suoni minimali che assaltano rapide visioni
Depandance del suo più noto Ctrlaltdel.org (vedi), la Lfoundation è un altro luogo di costruzioni immateriali d’arte elettronica dell’olandese →
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21.11.02 Jet-Net ver. 2.0, l’espansione nella città’.
Il Jet-Net del Forte Prenestino di Roma, territorio già da diversi anni di autoformazione e scambio di saperi, prende il →
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21.11.02 Hygrid, l’immagine collettiva.
HyGrid è un progetto d’arte collaborativa in rete che continua lentamente ad evolversi dal dicembre del 1995. Pur conservando solo scampoli del fascino →
