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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18.10.02 Eidetic Memory, narrazione fotografica frammentaria.
Dopo Frutiger Toy, uno dei vincitori del 5k contest (vedi 5k, l’arte in poche righe di codice.) Rick Mullarky ha realizzato →
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17.10.02 Wofbot, minimalismi sonoro/visivi.
Wofbot è un nuovo sito del portoghese Miguel Carvalhais in collaborazione con l’austriaca Lia, che, tenendo fede alla sua formazione astratto-minimalista ha costruito →
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17.10.02 Sonic Process, a new geography of sounds.
Sonic Process, a new geography of sounds è una mostra itinerante che s’inaugura il 16 ottobre al Centro Pompidou →
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17.10.02 GNU Radio, il software per trasformare il PC in una radio universale.
GNU Radio è un free software che usato con hardware minimale è capace di →
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17.10.02 Crowds and Power, il territorio urbano concettualizzato su web.
Crowds and Power di Jody Zellen è un’opera di web art che costruisce un’architettura emozionale dello spazio, →
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16.10.02 Who_Owns_Them_Controls, suoni politici digitali.
Who_Owns_Them_Controls è un opera di web art sonora del gruppo Glorious Ninth (alias Kate Southworth e Patrick Simons) costituita di suoni e →
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16.10.02 New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and Audiences.
New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and Audiences è un festival di due giorni tenutosi alla University of Iowa-Iowa City, →
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16.10.02 DIG.IT, the 2nd Annual Festival of Digital Media, video digitali.
DIG.IT, the 2nd Annual Festival of Digital Media, è un festival annuale ospitato dal Walker Art →
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16.10.02 Netstrike contro l’Oim e l’AILE.
Raccogliendo l’invito del Noborder network, a partire dalle 15:00 del 17 ottobre si tiene un netstrike contro l’OIM (organizzazione internazionale dell’immigrazione) →
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15.10.02 Virtual GameChimes, vibrazioni dal web.
Virtual GameChimes è un semplice strumento musicale programmato dal newyorchese Marc Natale in flash che risuona di suoni profondi e fedeli, →
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15.10.02 Neen, un nome per l’arte in rete.
Definire con una sola parola l’attività di chi produce opere o operazioni artistiche on-line rete può risultare assai riduttivo →
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15.10.02 ‘Il linguaggio dei nuovi media’, disponibile in italiano il fondamentale testo di Manovich.
È stato appena pubblicato ‘Il linguaggio dei nuovi media’, traduzione italiana (a cura →
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15.10.02 Èmotions digitales et territoires, arte elettronica francese.
Si è inaugurato il 15 ottobre Èmotions digitales et territoires, l’ottavo festival di arti elettroniche che si tiene a →
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15.10.02 BuzzMetrics, il grande orecchio.
Le comunità on line parlano. Qualcuno ascolta…e vende di più. Sembra che la metafora orwelliana del Grande Fratello si stia trasformando in →
