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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25.09.02 Oldversion.com, vecchio amato software.
Non sempre gli upgrade del software costituiscono cosa gradita, soprattutto quando sono affogati di nuove inutili opzioni, rimpiazzando la semplicità ed efficienza →
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25.09.02 Hitclips, i nuovi micromedia musicali.
Fra l’industria musicale alla ricerca di nuovi impenetrabili formati e l’enorme libero scambio di dati sonori in rete si pone questo →
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25.09.02 e-phos, festival internazionale di film e nuovi media ad Atene.
È cominciata il 24 settembre ad Atene la quarta edizione di e-phos, festival internazionale di film →
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24.09.02 Trent Reznor, la musica e i videogame.
In un recente articolo per Salon.com Trent Reznor, enigmatico leader dei Nine Inch Nails si racconta come accanito videogamer, →
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24.09.02 Split Film and New Media Festival.
Si è inaugurata il 21 settembre a Split (Croazia) l’edizione 2002 del International Festival Of New Film Split 2002 che, →
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24.09.02 DVDSynth, manipolare i DVD protetti.
DVDSynth è un software per Windows capace di far manipolare il contenuto dei dvd protetti ‘on the fly’, ossia al volo, →
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21.09.02 Hypersonic sounds, il suono direzionale.
Secondo la rivista americana ‘Popular Science’ i suoni ipersonici dovrebbero essere la prossima novità sostanziale nella percezione acustica. In uno schematico →
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21.09.02 Scientology censura webarchive.org (the wayback machine).
Dopo le storiche censure al provider olandese Xs4all e a Google, la Chiesa di Scientology ha operato un’altra clamorosa opera →
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21.09.02 Poesie Cinetique, versi in forma elettronica.
Poesie Cinetique è la sezione più animata del sito di poesia T.A.P.I.N. (Toute Action de Poesie Inadmissible sur Net), e →
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21.09.02 Play/Create, web video label.
A cominciare dal menu, in rotazione tridimensionale come gli spettacolari titoli di testa di un film d’avanguardia, Play/Create è dedicato precipuamente alla →
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21.09.02 Media-Space 02, la nuova scena digitale.
Si è inaugurata il 19 settembre presso la Filmhaus di Stoccarda (Germania) l’edizione 2002 di Media-Space, focalizzata sulla trasformazione delle →
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19.09.02 Le geometrie della memoria, arte sul G8 di Genova.
Proseguirà fino al 5 ottobre al centro sociale Reithalle di Berna (Svizzera), Le geometrie della memoria, una →
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19.09.02 Digital Needle, un grammofono virtuale.
Musica Visuale? Ecco un altro hacking concettuale e sperimentale che dà un nuovo siginificato a quest’accoppiata di termini. Digital Needle, infatti, →
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19.09.02 Day Jobs, intrecci fra web art e lavoro quotidiano.
Day Jobs è una mostra di web art che si concentra su contesti sociali ed economici dei →
