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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07.06.02 Extreme Computing, festival di tecnologie inappropriate.
Per tutta la giornata di domenica 9 giugno Camden Centre di Londra si tiene Extreme Computing, festival of Inappropriate Technology, →
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07.06.02 D>art, festival d’arte elettronica in Australia.
Si svolge al Museum of Contemporary Art di Sidney (Australia), a partire dal 7 giugno, e proseguirà a Melbourne, Adelaide →
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07.06.02 Un jukebox per mp3 dalla struttura di un vecchio videogioco da bar.
Come trasformare un vecchio arcade da bar in un perfetto jukebox per file mp3. →
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06.06.02 Taiwan, piano nazionale per il free software.
A Taiwan (Republic of China) il National Supercomputer Center sta cercando di far approvare al governo un piano nazionale →
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06.06.02 Software d’improvvisazione jazz che impara dagli insetti.
Due docenti dell’University College di Londra Tim Blackwell e Peter Bentley stanno mettendo a punto un software d’improvvisazione jazz →
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06.06.02 Computer games and digital culture conference.
L’importanza culturale dei videogames sta ottenendo sempre maggiori riconoscimenti con l’allargarsi della consapevolezza che essi costituiscono un medium compiuto, piuttosto →
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06.06.02 8081, nuovi lavori di net art.
Il collettivo torinese degli 8081 ha presentato in questi giorni alcuni nuovi spazi sul proprio sito, già →
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05.06.02 La privacy secondo IBM.
Il nuovo ‘Privacy Institute‘ messu su dall’IBM ha già annunciato nuove tecnologie che potrebbero aiutare la tutela della privacy, appunto, dei consumatori, →
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05.06.02 Lost Love, la net art della narrazione struggente.
Le ferite lasciate dagli amori interrotti si rimarginano ma lasciano visibili cicatrici che ricordano a chi le porta →
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05.06.02 Hiperlook, browser alternativo.
hiperlook 1.0 è una demo version di un altro browser alternativo, facente parte del progetto Hipercubo(OK) sulle connessioni fra arte, scienza e tecnologia →
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05.06.02 Guitarport, amplificatore virtuale per jam session con chitarra e PC.
Il ‘GuitarPort‘ della Line 6 è una combinazione di hardware e software per effettuare delle jam →
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04.06.02 The Allegorical Impulse, un saggio rimasticato dal web.
L’installazione The Allegorical Impulse part I, è un progetto di net art che rimastica il saggio di Craig →
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04.06.02 Hacking dell’Xbox.
Andrew Huang, uno studente laureato del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pare abbia trovato la maniera d’ingannare il sistema di sicurezza della console per →
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04.06.02 Cybersonica, festival internazionale di suoni e musiche digitali.
S’inaugura il 4 giugno all’ICA di Londra Cybersonica, festival internazionale di suoni e musiche digitali, che attraverso un →
