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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16.09.02 Falsi utenti creati per pubbliche relazioni digitali.
Secondo un articolo dell’inglese Guardian il Bivings Group, un’azienda di pubbliche relazioni che ha fra i suoi clienti la →
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12.09.02 Accordo fra Phil Zimmermann e Foundation for Information Policy Research.
Phil Zimmermann, creatore del PGP, dopo aver salvato le sue tecnologie dall’oblio, ha stretto un importante →
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12.09.02 Tsunamii.Net Crush Server, suicidio di un webserver.
Si è concluso alle 19:00 del 12 settembre il ‘suicidio’ programmato del webserver dislocato all’indirizzo 195.195.81.5. La macchina, fisicamente →
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12.09.02 Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Lab.
S’inaugura il 12 settembre la serie di workshop gratuiti che si protrarranno fino al 22, in una anteprima di Next →
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12.09.02 Letterscapes, il design delle lettere interattive.
Peter Cho proviene dall’Aesthetics and Computational Group del MIT Medialab e in Letterscape, una delle sue opere tipografiche interattive questo →
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12.09.02 Dissonanze, rassegna di arti e musiche elettroniche a Roma.
Comincia il 12 settembre l’edizione 2002 di Dissonanze rassegna di arti e musiche elettroniche che si tiene →
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11.09.02 Mu, il nulla interattivo in suoni e visioni.
Tomoko Kawai è un’artista giapponese residente a San Francisco che, come poche altre, riesce ad esprimere concetti astratti →
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11.09.02 Large Hot Pipe Organ, organo esplosivo via MIDI.
Il Large Hot Pipe Organ è il solo organo ad esplosioni di gas propano controllato via MIDI. I →
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11.09.02 Il network d’emergenza di broadcasting USA non è sicuro
L’Emergency Alert System è un network d’emergenza che consente al presidente degli Stati Uniti di interrompere tutte →
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11.09.02 11 settembre, terrore di ricordare.
Dalle oscure precognizioni del 1968, in una pubblicità del del New York Times che visualizzava il fatto che →
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10.09.02 Aggirato il great firewall of China.
Dopo l’annuncio del blocco del più popolare motore di ricerca (Google) da parte delle autorità cinesi, un hacking sopraffino è →
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10.09.02 Audio Hyperspace, arte sonora nel network
È online l’ultimo numero di Audio Hyperspace, un’informatissima rivista elettronica dedicata all’arte sonora nei network telematici. Curata da Sabine Breitsameter, →
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10.09.02 Unplugged: Ars Electronica 2002
È stata inaugurata il 7 settembre l’edizione 2002 di Ars Electronica, intitolata ‘Unplugged, art as the scene of Global Conflicts‘, focalizzata sui →
