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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03.05.02 ‘Gigabyte’, la ragazza che ha scritto ‘Sharpei’, il primo virus per la piattaforma .NET di Microsoft.
Gigabyte è il nickname della ragazza belga, che ha creato →
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03.05.02 Free software con Bruce Sterling a Torino.
Sabato 4 maggio alle 9:00, nell’Aula Magna della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione (Dams), si terrà il convegno ‘Free →
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02.05.02 Megatight, generazioni astratte geometriche.
Andrew Childs è l’autore di Megatight, un insieme di più di cento opere di geometria astratta, generate automaticamente in flash. Gli algoritmi →
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02.05.02 Forum International Software Livre, conferenza a Porto Alegre.
Si inaugura il 2 maggio a Porto Alegre (Brasile) il Forum International Software Livre (Forum Internazionale del Software →
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02.05.02 Il nuovo cd di Eminem protetto da copia?.
‘The Eminem Show’; il terzo cd di Eminem probabilmente sarà protetto da copia. La Universal, major che distribuirà →
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02.05.02 Chimera Obscura, net art telerobotica.
Shawn Brixey, Richard Rinehart, Jesse Rankin (programmazione) e Steve Toh (modellazione), sono gli artefici di Chimera Obscura, un lavoro di telerobotica →
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02.05.02 Beyond the media, festival internazionale di architettura in video a Firenze.
Comincia il 2 maggio Beyond the media/Oltre i media, festival internazionale di architettura in video →
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30.04.02 Time as colour, time and place, net art di ore, minuti e secondi.
L’arbitraria assegnazione di significati rappresenta uno degli spunti più interessanti per le sperimentazioni →
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30.04.02 TextArc, net art letteraria di visualizzazione.
TextArc è un altro spettacolare tentativo di rappresentare visivamente un intero testo su una singola pagina, attraverso le relazioni dei →
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30.04.02 Project Dante, la divina commedia reinterpretata in chiave post-telematica.
Non sorprende che a distanza di secoli un opera come la Divina Commedia continui a destare interesse →
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30.04.02 Concerti: Mouse on Mars, Dimitri from Paris.
Il 30 aprile al Brancaleone di Roma si svolge una serata con tutte le maggiori crew techno-trance della capitale →
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30.04.02 Bugnosis, software per scoprire che dati escono dal tuo computer.
Bugnosis è un nuovo tool per la privacy presentato all’ultima Conference of Computers, Freedom, and Privacy →
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29.04.02 Yapaitu.org, Flash Art argentina.
Juan Manuel Patiño è l’artista di Buenos Aires titolare di Yapaitu.org, il sito dove raccoglie le sue sperimentazioni in Flash, basate perloppiù →
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29.04.02 Net_/Working, net art che concettualizza il networking.
Net_/Working è uno degli ultimi lavori di Glorious Ninth, pseudonimo degli inglesi Patrick Simons e Kate Southworth, che esplora →
