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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19.08.02 Smontare la crittografia con tecniche inusuali.
Nel 1998 il criptografo Paul Kocher sviluppò un metodo per dedurre la chiave segreta nascosta in una smart card crittografica →
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09.08.02 Prototype #22, l’anima meccanica.
Fra le tante piccole sperimentazioni seminate su web, quella della sedicente OPT Technology inc. denominata Prototype #22 esprime con un linguaggio di →
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09.08.02 L’EFF presenta i buchi di sicurezza dell’Xbox.
L’EFF presenterà ufficialmente il controverso documento dello studente del MIT Andrew ‘Bunnie’ Huang, che illustra i buchi di sicurezza →
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09.08.02 Boycott RIAA.
A metà fra la parodia e l’attivismo, il sito di Boycott RIAA è un forum aperto che vuol coalizzare le forze contro la famigerata →
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09.08.02 Adbusters apre il suo canale televisivo online.
Il collettivo di guastatori mediatici canadesi di Adbusters hanno inaugurato il suo canale televisivo online: Adbusters TV aperto a →
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08.08.02 International Spontaneous Jam Session, web-jam audiovisive.
International Spontaneous Jam Session è l’ultimo esperimento dell’artista islandese Pall Thayer sulla generazione di immagini astratte. Il suo lavoro subordina →
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08.08.02 Tecnologie biometriche inaffidabili.
Secondo Jim Wayman direttore del biometric test center della San Jose State University, il riconoscimento facciale, così come quello delle impronte digitali e →
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08.08.02 Matrix.2, arte telefonica al Castello di Rivoli.
Matrix.2 è l’opera di Francis Alÿs che ha preso per oggetto della sua indagine le navigazioni telefoniche a scelte →
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08.08.02 AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism v.2, video mediattivisti.
L’update della rassegna AHA, costituita stavolta da proiezioni video sul media attivismo, sarà visibile nelle serate dei giorni 8, 15 e →
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07.08.02 Nec Powermate, il computer ecologico.
La Nec, dopo l’introduzione in Giappone del modello Mate, sta per lanciare sul mercato statunitense il PowerMate, un modello all-in-one, ossia →
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07.08.02 Longplayer, una sinfonia per mille anni.
Nei presupposti della musica generativa c’è quello di generare musica che non si ripete se non dopo decine se non →
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07.08.02 GetLyrical, database dei testi delle canzoni.
Sono quasi due milioni i testi delle canzoni contenute in GetLyrical, il sito che ha costruito uno fra i più →
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07.08.02 File 2002, electronic language international festival.
Si inaugura l’8 agosto a San Paolo (Brasile) l’edizione 2002 di File electronic language international festival, organizzata da Ricardo Barreto →
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07.08.02 We Love New York, la New York digitale di artisti e attivisti.
Comincia l’8 agosto all’Eyebeam di New York We Love New York, Mapping Manhattan with →
