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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21.12.02 Un tesoro digitale salvato da un collezionista di vintage tech.
Sellam Ismail è un fanatico di vintage tecnologico, e un consulente specializzato in computer obsoleti. A →
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21.12.02 Reed Kram, estetica dell’elaborazione.
Il karma di John Maeda può pervadere anche i suoi allievi del fondamentale ‘Aesthetics and Computational Group del MIT’, come dimostra questa →
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21.12.02 Mappate le aree del cervello che elaborano le melodie.
Il professor Petr Janata del Center for Cognitive Neuroscience del Dartmouth College sta conducendo un progetto di →
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20.12.02 Weekender: Fischerspooner, Thomas Bar, Focalizer, Alex neri, Paul Arnold.
Nel weekend si staglia su tutti, il goa.ultrabeat, a Roma, all’Horus Club, live di Fischerspooner, a seguire →
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20.12.02 Test interattivi di suoni binaurali.
La University of York ha realizzato un importante e divertente test sulla percezione dei suoni binaurali. L’Online Psychoacoustic Experiment consiste in →
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20.12.02 My Voice, fare di una voce straniera quella dell’autore.
My Voice (read by microphone) è un lavoro interattivo di Gregory Chatonsky, già autore di Netsleeping, che →
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20.12.02 EG Serene, software per riformalizzare la struttura temporale dei video.
‘EG Serene‘ è l’ultimo software di Barbara Lattanzi, prolifica autrice di programmi che elaborano concettualmente le →
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20.12.02 L’anonymizer del Senato USA.
Che non si dica che il Senato degli Stati uniti non ha mai fatto nulla per salvaguardare la privacy su Internet. Anzi. →
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19.12.02 reFresh:reLoad, mostra come savescreen.
reFresh:reLoad è uno screensaver che applica il concetto di ‘galleria d’opere’ allo spazio di inattività della macchina, distribuendo dinamicamente i lavori ai →
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19.12.02 Greylines 00-06 e Hyperchoreography, nuova software art scozzese.
Presentati dalla sempre attiva New Media Scotland due nuovi progetti di software art. Greylines 00-06 è sviluppato dai →
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19.12.02 Bruce Haack: The King of Techno.
Bruce Haack è uno dei misconosciuti pionieri dell’elettronica, che fin dagli anni cinquanta si è costruito i suoi strumenti artigianali, →
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19.12.02 Arrestato un altro net attivista cinese.
L’organizzazione Human Rights in China (HRIC) informa che l’editore cinese Li Yibin è stato arrestato per attività di propoganta anti →
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18.12.02 Tom Thumb, video generativo.
Tom Thumb è un cortometraggio creato da Alex Evans, che riproduce alcune caratteristiche generative. Il senso che l’autore ha dato a questo →
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18.12.02 if(Monologue) {…}, web poetry vietnamita.
Nello stardom degli artisti bianchi e occidentali della rete si eleva per freschezza di idee e approcci inusuali alla narrativa web →
