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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04.10.02 Dark Markets, Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis.
Si svolge il 3 e il 4 ottobre all’Architekturzentrum di Vienna (Austria), ‘Dark Markets, Infopolitics, →
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03.10.02 Madrettor, festival di nuovi media a Rotterdam.
Si è inaugurato a Rotterdam l’1 ottobre, Madrettor, festival of [Media]Art, NET_Culture & technology, un evento che, oltre ad →
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03.10.02 Collective Jukebox, il jukebox partecipato.
Collective Jukebox è un esperimento di partecipazione collettiva ad un progetto inaugurato nel ‘lontano’ 1996 dal francese Jerome Joy, col preciso →
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03.10.02 Censorware finanziato dal governo giapponese.
Dopo l’ultima diffusione in Giappone dei programmi di censorware (ossia che bloccano contenuti giudicati inadatti ai minori attraverso alcune parole chiave) →
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01.10.02 Sob Vigilancia, Oeiras Image Festival.
L’Oeiras Image Festival di Barcarena (Portogallo) ha dedicato nel 2002 la propria rassegna di video digitali al tema ‘Sob Vigilancia/Under Surveillance’, →
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01.10.02 Electraum.com: mp3 compilation in itinere.
Fra i gradi di libertà restituiti dalla smaterializzazione del medium musicale imposta dal formato mp3, c’è anche quella di organizzare una →
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01.10.02 Digital Media Festival 2002 a Manila.
S’inaugura l’1 ottobre a Manila (Filippine) il Digital Media Festival 2002, una manifestazione curata da Fatima Lasay che trova la →
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26.09.02 Wayform.net, arredamento sonoro collaborativo.
Wayform.net è un progetto di suoni collaborativi ‘in progress’ che ruota intorno a tre concetti: community, sound e space. Gli script in →
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26.09.02 Trashlog, il fascino della spazzatura su web.
In un apparente autocompiacimento, Nico Van Hoorn, è l’artista che ha creato il Trashlog, un sito aggiornato quotidianamente con →
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26.09.02 media_city seoul, arte elettronica dell’utopia.
Si è inaugurata il 26 settembre a Seoul (Corea) media_city seoul, biennale di media art. Determinata all’esplorazione dell’incontro fra arte contemporanea →
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26.09.02 CODeDOC, software art exhibition.
CODeDOC è un ambizioso progetto espositivo di software art, che ben lungi dall’incasellare spettacolari effetti speciali di altrettanti colorati programmi, capovolge la →
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26.09.02 Attivisti californiani spediscono PC riciclati in Ecuador.
Alcuni membri dell’Independent Media Center di Oakland (California) stanno recuperando computer funzionanti a partire dagli scarti regalati all’Alameda County →
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25.09.02 Villette Numérique, biennale di new media art a Parigi.
Non si sono certo risparmiati gli organizzatori di Villette Numérique, prima biennale di arte dei nuovi media →
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25.09.02 Typophile, il font collettivo.
Ispirato dal libro ‘Out of Control’ di Kevin Kelly, Typophile, the smaller picture è un’opera di web art che cerca di far →
