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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04.07.02 Donare computer per le zone povere di Londra e per l’Africa.
Computer Aid, la maggiore organizzazione mondiale no-profit per la donazione di computer alle nazioni in →
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04.07.02 Active Metaphore, client per Carnivore dei Limiteazero.
Il gruppo milanese dei Limiteazero ha reso disponibile sul proprio sito ‘Active Metaphore‘, un client grafico per il software →
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02.07.02 Mp3 per i Game Boy.
La Songpro, rampante startup californiana, sta per mettere sul mercato un dispositivo in grado di riprodurre file mp3 attraverso i popolarissimi →
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02.07.02 ‘The Art of Deception’ il primo romanzo di Kevin Mitnick.
Kevin Mitnick, che ancora non può usare internet in ogni sua forma, neppure ora che è →
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02.07.02 Glyphiti, net art collaborativa del bianco e nero.
Glyphiti di Andy Deck consiste in un’immagine composta da decine di piccole decorazioni (‘glyph’) che possono facilmente essere →
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02.07.02 alpha3.4, l’internet fisica.
Il gruppo tsunamii.net ha realizzato uno dei pochi lavori che riguardano internet per l’edizione di quest’anno di Documenta. Il loro progetto, Alpha 3.4, →
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01.07.02 BorderXings Guide + Net art alla Tate Gallery.
Due nuovi progetti di net art vengono presentati l’1 luglio alla Tate Gallery di Londra e ospitati sul →
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01.07.02 Potluck, raffinato shockwave sequencing.
Potluck è un altro sequencing interattivo implementato con tecnologie che ne permettono la fruizione online. Realizzato da Amy Franceschini (ex dei Futurefarmers) →
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01.07.02 Vittoria di 2600 sulla Ford.
La Ford Motor Company ha ufficialmente e incondizionatamente abbandonato la causa contro la rivista 2600, the hacker’s quarterly, riguardante →
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27.06.02 Yaha.E, worm all’attacco del sito del governo pakistano.
Il sito del governo del Pakistan sembra essere stato vittima di un attacco lanciato attraverso un worm, ossia →
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27.06.02 Stub, software art per computer in circostanze estreme.
stub.org*31137_snd è un software per mac di Ade Ward che esplora le possibilità dell’ambiente eseguibile di un computer →
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27.06.02 SoundRaider, i suoni della propria macchina.
In pieno boom della scena musicale ‘powerbook’ o ‘laptop’ che dir si voglia, in cui fior di artisti elettronici suonano →
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27.06.02 International Computers *Error* [ Cadavres Exqu!s ], testi poetici ricombinati
International Computers *Error* [ Cadavres Exqu!s ] è un generatore di testi poetici in cut up, →
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27.06.02 Antimafia, software per Gnutella degli EpidemiC.
Antimafia, è un software per Windows, creato dal gruppo degli epidemiC, l’estesa crew di net artisti già protagonisti di diverse →
