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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13.05.02 Il Perù sceglie il free software.
In una lettera cortese ma fermissima, David Villanueva Nuñez, deputato peruviano ha risposto alla sede nazionale della Microsoft che aveva →
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13.05.02 Net art italiana: Nuovo virus EpidemiC + Their Circular Life + Hypermacbeth.
– ‘Bocconi.vbs‘ è il nome del nuovo virus realizzato dal collettivo milanese degli EpidemiC, →
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13.05.02 Music Plus, il jukebox dell’era digitale.
Il primo modello in commercio di jukebox digitale si chiama Music Plus ed è prodotto dalla coreana Human Information Technologies. →
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13.05.02 Censurata opera di net art dei Knowbotic Research.
L’opera di net art degli svizzeri Knowbotic Research ‘Minds of Concern: Breaking News‘ è stata messa offline dal →
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13.05.02 Banner Art Collective, web art del banner.
Il Banner Art Collective crea e colleziona web art all’interno delle limitazioni e dei contesti della pubblicità su web, →
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10.05.02 Weekender: SoFar festival, Nobukazu Takemura, Diamanda Galas, Full Cycle, Transgobal Underground, Llorca, Dimitri From Paris.
Dal 9 al 12 maggio a Catania si tiene ‘SoFar, Suoni →
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10.05.02 Traffic Report, rendere pubblici i propri traffici di dati.
Traffic Report è un esperimento di ‘data voyeurism’ o ‘data exhibitionism’ che dir si voglia che coinvolge →
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10.05.02 Cromatica, software per telecamere di sorveglianza che ‘prevede’ i comportamenti.
Sergio Velastin ricercatore della Kingston University di Londra ha sviluppato un software, ribattezzato Cromatica, che nelle →
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10.05.02 ClipIt!, condividere i ‘copia e incolla’ col resto della rete.
ClipIt! è un software liberamente scaricabile che permette di condividere in rete con altri utenti il →
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10.05.02 Chloë, net art fotografica.
‘Chloë‘ è il ritratto delizioso e ossessivo di un’omonima bambina, modella professionista, scattato da Eduardo Navas su sollecito dei fieri genitori. Il →
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09.05.02 Subtle Technologies 02, arte e scienza a Toronto.
Comincia il 9 maggio alla Innis Town Hall della University of Toronto (Canada) Subtle Technologies 02, evento internazionale →
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09.05.02 Seminario sulla musica elettronica a Bari.
Il 9 maggio nell’Aula 12 della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature straniere dell’Università di Bari, alle 16:00, si svolgerà ‘Il →
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09.05.02 Scan Disk, le schermate reinterpretate di Enrico Mitrovich a Milano.
Fino al 31 maggio si può visitare alla galleria ABC di Milano ‘Scan Disk, scansione superficiale →
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09.05.02 Penalizzate le biblioteche statunitensi che non censurano i loro contenuti.
Il più antico gruppo per la difesa delle libertà civili statunitense, l’ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), →
