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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08.10.02 Friendship Gallery, web art per la Diesel.
Da sempre alla ricerca di nuove strategie per la diffusione del proprio marchio, la Diesel si fa ora committente →
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08.10.02 Faith, animare il senso di un testo
Faith è l’ultima opera di web art letteraria di Robert Kendall, docente di letteratura elettronica ed autore di poesie →
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08.10.02 Marantz CDR300, registrare su cd dal vivo.
La registrazione dal vivo con qualità digitale è stata fino ad ora ad appannaggio dei Minidisc e dei loro →
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07.10.02 Scratch, film documentario sul turntablism.
Scratch è un lungometraggio che documenta la nascita e il proliferare del movimento del turntablism dal South Bronx negli anni settanta →
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07.10.02 Modern Living, novantanove corti in flash di Han Hoogerbrugge.
È uno dei maggiori talenti in assoluto delle animazioni in flash, e di questo Han Hoogerbrugge deve →
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07.10.02 L’attacco al diritto d’autore di Groucho Marx.
Gli attacchi dei difensori del copyright non sono faccenda esclusiva dei nostri tempi. In una esilarante lettera il celebre →
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07.10.02 Art for Networks, network non solo informatici.
Art for Networks è una mostra itinerante di net.art inglese che incrocia le interpretazioni del network telematico con quelle →
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05.10.02 Shrinking World, Expanding Net, conferenza annuale del CPSR.
Shrinking World, Expanding Net, è il titolo della conferenza annuale organizzata dal CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) →
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05.10.02 MTV: Un film con il fondatore di Napster.
MTV ha firmato un accordo con Shawn Fanning, il creatore di Napster, per i diritti di un film →
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05.10.02 MomEnt.16: Orgasmus im Berlin.
MomEnt.16: Orgasmus im Berlin è un ‘net_video’ di Igor Stromajer, brillante performer sloveno, da anni allo studio della rappresentazione del movimento corporeo →
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05.10.02 Daily Photo Project, web per (o fine a) sè stesso.
Le tentazioni artistiche di un medium che permette la distribuzione immediata di tutti i contenuti che →
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04.10.02 Madhack2002, terzo hackmeeting spagnolo.
Comincia il 4 ottobre al centro sociale occupato Labo03 di Madrid Madhack2002, il terzo hackmeeting spagnolo, con il solito fitto programma di →
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04.10.02 Geoff Cox, the dialectics of generative art a Transmediale.
Continuano i workshop periodici, tenutisi al Podewil, del festival berlinese Transmediale, e il 4 ottobre sarà di →
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04.10.02 Dictionaraoke, esilaranti karaoke sintetici plagiaristi.
Un altro colpo di genio di plagiarismo inattaccabile è contenuto nell’irresistibile sito di Dictionaraoke, una collezione di oltre cento brani, classici →
