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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20.11.02 Quake Friends, la performance dentro il videogame.
Il 18 Ottobre 2002 sette performer si sono collegati contemporaneamente alla stesso server ‘Quake III Arena’. Invece di partecipare →
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20.11.02 Internet Bookmobile, sapere diffuso dal web alla carta.
La cultura viaggia online, e non solo: è arrivato l’Internet Bookmobile, nato da un’idea di Brewster Khale, che →
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20.11.02 Glitch art, il fascino dell’errore digitale.
Potenza e precisione di calcolo dei nuovi elaboratori elettronici e digitali hanno largamente influenzato le tendenze estetiche contemporanee. Nell’immaginario collettivo →
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16.11.02 World-Information.Org Amsterdam: Exploring the Network Society of Control.
Si è inaugurata il 15 Novembre al De Oude Kerk di Amsterdam World-Information.Org Amsterdam: Exploring the Network Society →
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16.11.02 Weekender: Laurent Garnier, The Cinematic Orchestra, Luke Slater, Final Scratch, James Lavelle, Hexstatic, London Elektricity, Black Panther Party.
Venerdì 15 Novembre a Torino, al Bar Bar, →
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16.11.02 Netstrike per i no-global arrestati.
Dopo gli arresti degli attivisti politici del Sud Italia, la risposta del movimento è stata immediata. Fra le diverse iniziative proposte →
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16.11.02 Actionist Respoke, web sequencer non convenzionale.
Actionist Respoke di Michael Janoschek e Rüdiger Schlömer è un sequencer lineare che interagisce con l’utente secondo un’interfaccia non convenzionale, →
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16.11.02 34 North 118 West, GPS art.
Il 15 novembre a Los Angeles si è tenuta la performance ‘34 North →
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15.11.02 s000t000d [v1.0], ipertesto letterario.
s000t000d (Roma, Los Angeles) v1.0 è un esempio di rappresentazione grafica dei livelli narrativi negli ipertesti. Nato da un’idea di Filippo Rosso, →
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15.11.02 Future Cinema, l’immaginario cinematico digitale allo ZKM.
Si apre sabato 16 Novembre allo ZKM di Karlsruhe (Germania) ‘Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary after Film‘ sulla rivoluzione →
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15.11.02 Freedom of expression in the information society.
Freedom of expression in the information society è un simposio internazionale organizzato dall’Unesco che riprende un diritto fondamentale (quello →
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15.11.02 Art of the mix, la community dei mix trader.
Un sito di musica può riunire una community specialistica di 3500 utenti registrati senza disporre nemmeno di →
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14.11.02 The Millennium Urban Soundscape Project, a sonic time-capsule.
The Millennium Urban Soundscape Project è un progetto sonoro pensato per costruire una sorta di capsula temporale che →
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14.11.02 The Homeless Guy, blog di un senzatetto.
Demolire lo stereotipo del senzatetto con un blog: è la battaglia personale di Kevin Barbieux, che grazie al suo →
