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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06.11.02 Carta d’identità per Internet in Cina.
Un’intera provincia cinese, quella di Jiangxi, ha obbligato tutti gli utenti degli internet cafè (3.200 in tutto) ad acquistare delle →
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06.11.02 Infomera, sfide fra net artisti.
Infomera è la versione per net artisti dei ‘Celebrity Deathmatch’ di mtv. In sette settimane ogni coppia di sidanti si è →
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06.11.02 GogolChat, chiacchiere irrazionali.
GogolChat è una finta chat che attraverso un’apposito set di istruzioni in DHTML seziona i dialoghi e li integra attraverso un motore di →
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05.11.02 Zombie and Mummy, fumetti sociali settimanali per Palm.
Dragan Espenschied e Olia Lialina (una delle primissime net.artiste) hanno lanciato ‘Zombie and Mummy‘, una serie di strisce →
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05.11.02 PDPal, public art per PDA.
Sebbene ancora nella fase ‘alpha’ di sviluppo PDPal è un interessante software di public art per PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Realizzato →
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05.11.02 Il fondatore della Lotus inaugura la Open Source Applications Foundation.
Mitch Kapor, uno dei pionieri dell’industria del software (fondatore della Lotus Development Corp.9) ha finanziato a →
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05.11.02 Dubselector, flash dub sequencing.
Ultimo in ordine di tempo, ma primo per divertimento e semplicità di interfaccia, Dubselector è un sequencer interattivo con 8 set di →
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01.11.02 Weekender: DJ Krush, Salvador Group, Mike Dred, Tarwater, Jolly Music, Pasta Boys.
Venerdì 1 novembre: al Barbar (Torino) Jolly Music, live in the mix del duo →
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01.11.02 TV or Not TV, 8th celebration of experimental media arts a Los Angeles.
Comincia il primo novembre a Los Angeles TV or Not TV, 8th celebration →
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01.11.02 Remind me, videoclip isometrico.
Elettronici e cool, gli innovatori norvegesi Royksopp hanno ridefinito le coordinate ed i tempi di molti dei generi musicali attualmente in voga. →
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01.11.02 2a Oekonux Conference: From Free Software to Free Society?.
Comincia il primo novembre alla Technische Universität di Berlino la seconda Oekonux Conference intitolata quest’anno ‘From Free →
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01.11.02 Observatori’02: spazio aperto per la ftp art.
Si inaugura il primo novembre, a Valencia (Spagna) la terza edizione di Observatori ‘festival of art investigation’, che include →
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31.10.02 Rest Area, video musicali astratti.
Rest Area di Nancy Tobin è un video musicale in flash che con tecniche minimali contrappone le forti stimolazioni in loop →
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31.10.02 NYU Media Research Lab, digital experiments.
Quella dell’eclettico docente del Department of Computer Science (Media Research Lab di New York), Ken Perlin, è sicuramente una delle →
