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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14.11.02 The Homeless Guy, blog di un senzatetto.
Demolire lo stereotipo del senzatetto con un blog: è la battaglia personale di Kevin Barbieux, che grazie al suo →
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14.11.02 Doors of Perception 2002: Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing.
S’inaugura il 14 novembre al centro RAI di Amsterdam la settima Doors of Perception 2002: →
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14.11.02 4z4, a net art no show.
L’operazione più recente di Linkoln.net è quella di una anti-mostra online di lavori, che si abbeverano alle sorgenti dell’arte →
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13.11.02 Remote, web art nelle highlands scozzesi.
Si è inaugurato alla Iona Gallery di Edimburgo, Remote, una mostra di arte elettronica organizzata da New Media Scotland. Sette →
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13.11.02 Peercast, la rete p2p dei webcasters.
Aperto ad Aprile del 2002, PeerCast è un sito no-profit che fornisce software per il broadcasting peer-to-peer. Insieme a The →
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13.11.02 Arresti e leggi restrittive in Tunisia
Il presidente tunisino Zine al-Abidine ben Ali, già acerrimo nemico della libertà di girare liberamente fra i contenuti di Internet, →
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12.11.02 Cellulari vietati ai concerti dei Rolling Stones.
In un messaggio postato su ‘Undercover’, mailing list dedicata ai Rolling Stones si racconta come durante un concerto dei →
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12.11.02 Manimals, i morphing antropomorfi di Daniel Lee
I Manimals, (ossia i morphing antropomorfi fotografici fra uomini e animali) sono una creatura di Daniel Lee, fotografo che →
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12.11.02 Arthur Lavine, le foto dei computer che furono.
Nasce come mostra per il Computer Museum di San Diego (USA), l’esibizione delle foto di Arthur Lavine che →
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12.11.02 Ghostzilla, il browser per mascherare le navigazioni.
Ghostzilla, The Camouflage Web Browser, è un software che cerca di raggirare gli spioni del monitor, salvaguardando la privacy →
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09.11.02 Weekender: Layo e Bushwacka, Koop, Fabio, Sam Paglia.
In evidenza questa settimana il dj-set di Layo e Bushwacka! presentato da Xplosiva Venerdì 8 Novembre 2002 al →
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09.11.02 Making art on the web, conferenza a Biella.
Si tiene il 9 novembre presso la Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletto di Biella il convegno Making art on the web, →
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09.11.02 grain.S, affascinanti animazioni granulose.
grain.S è un cortometraggio in computer grafica tridimensionale realizzato da Timou [Ced] e Vincent [Sapo], ex brillanti studenti dell’Università di Strasburgo, diplomati →
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08.11.02 Il capitolo scomparso da ‘The art of deception’ di Kevin Mitnick.
Il primo capitolo del libro di Kevin Mitnick ‘The art of deception’ non è mai →
