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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05.09.02 Wired Ruins: Digital Terror and Ethnic Paranoia.
Dopo alcuni seminali libri che hanno gettato solide basi del criticismo della rete i coniugi Arthur and Marilouise Kroker →
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04.09.02 Violence Online Festival, opere online sul concetto di violenza.
La violenza è uno strumento, un processo vitale e necessario o solamente il risultato di cause e →
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04.09.02 Revolution OS, il film su Linux.
Il primo sistema operativo in grado di incrinare seriamente il ventennale monopolio Microsoft ha ottenuto un altro importante riconoscimento. Meglio →
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04.09.02 Escher in quicktime.
Il celeberrimo illusionismo ottico di M.C.Escher, venduto in centinaia di gadget, nasconde delle perfette proprietà ricorsive illustrate nella classica china nera, o in →
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04.09.02 Generatori di testo, Dadadodo e Blog Drone.
La quantità di dati testuali scambiati in ogni momento sulla rete continua a solleticare l’interesse di programmatori in vena →
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04.09.02 Antimal, suoni per scacciare insetti e topi dal PC.
Anti-Mal 2.0 è un freeware per Windows che fa emettere alle casse acustiche dei pc delle frequenze →
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02.09.02 TV_Infinity, il movimento come loop infinito.
TV_Infinity è l’interessante lavoro cinematico di Alexandra Reill prodotto dalla viennese Kanonmedia.com, in cui brillanti fotografie di fenomeni naturali scattate →
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02.09.02 Bassista aggiunto in digitale, senza essere invitato.
Ascoltare un brano e ripensarlo secondo i propri parametri è una pratica comune a tutti gli appassionati di musica, →
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02.09.02 Yolanda’s cyber meditation: meditazione davanti allo schermo.
Fra le svariate attività portate avanti sotto la sigla Coniglio Viola (video per la band Modho e flash-video sulla →
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02.09.02 Capire e valutare la EUCD.
Facendo seguito ad un fondamentale seminario tenutosi durante l’ultimo hackmeeting, l’Associazione Software Libero ha inaugurato un prezioso lavoro d’analisi sull’EUCD (European →
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02.09.02 The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
La creazione dinamica di alfabeti è da circa una decade una delle perloppiù inesplorate possibilità semiotiche dei programmi di manipolazione dei font. →
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30.08.02 Word Perhect, word processing da incubo.
Word Perhectè il lavoro in shockwave di Tomoko Takahashi che ripropone l’interfaccia di un programma di word processing, bisbetico nei →
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30.08.02 Simian 6, rivoluzione in flash.
L’estetica rapida e a colori netti di flash può essere piegata ad una narrazione meno convenzionale dei serrati spot pubblicitari. Il →
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30.08.02 Melodie Neurali.
Alcuni ricercatori della clinica del sonno dell’Università di Toronto hanno accertato che il cervello umano crea la sua propria musica interna e che la →
