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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24.04.02 The Bank of Time, piante che crescono sullo schermo durante le pause.
The Bank of Time è l’opera di net art sotto forma di screensaver realizzata →
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23.04.02 Vectorial Elevation, net art che illumina una piazza.
Approda per la prima volta in Europa la più grande installazione d’arte interattiva conosciuta, ossia ‘Vectorial Elevation, Relational →
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23.04.02 VCards, auguri da un net art worm.
VCards è l’innovativo progetto di Mark Daggett, media artista di Los Angeles, (già autore di Deskswap, vedi.) che fonde →
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23.04.02 The Exchange Program, scambiarsi la personalità.
È cominciato il 20 aprile The Exchange Program il nuovo progetto coordinato da Michael Mandiberg, net artista concettuale francese, che →
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23.04.02 Discogs, il database in rete della musica elettronica.
Discogs è il maggior sforzo collettivo su internet di archiviazione dei prodotti di musica elettronica. Una comunità di →
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23.04.02 Cybugs, possono le macchine pensare?, mostra di robot alla Triennale di Milano.
Si apre il 23 aprile alla Triennale di Milano Cybugs, possono le macchine pensare?, →
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22.04.02 International TV Turnoff, la settimana della tv spenta.
Comincia il 22 Aprile L’International TV Turnoff Week, un’altra iniziativa di protesta mediatica messa in campo dall’instacabile gruppo →
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22.04.02 T.L.J. project, net art come javascript movie.
T.L.J. project è un ‘javascript movie’, ossia una sequenza rapida e irrefrenabile di immagini e animazioni costruite artificialmente attraverso →
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22.04.02 Ogg Vorbis per l’hi-fi e il pda + Muse 0.7.
Ogg Vorbis, il formato libero (free software) di compressione dell’audio sta guadagnando sempre maggior terreno e →
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22.04.02 Interactive Arts Festival.01, selezione di net art.
Alla Kwan Fong Gallery presso la California Lutheran University si è inaugurata da una decina di giorni una mostra →
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22.04.02 ‘Europa on the fly’, net art sonora per l’Europa fragile.
Europa on the fly è il lavoro di net art sonora del tedesco Wolf Kahlen, che →
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19.04.02 Weekender: Distorsonie festival, Green Velvet, vjs, Death in June e Buscemi.
Si apre venerdì 19 aprile al Link di Bologna Il Distorsonie Festival con concerti, solo →
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19.04.02 Transforming Modernity, le possibilità nel futuro dell’arte.
Si tiene il 20 aprile all’Austrian Cultural Forum di New York (USA) il primo evento della rassegna Transforming Modernity, →
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19.04.02 Ici 02, i pericoli delle webcam.
Ici 02 è l’opera di net art dell’artista francese Reynald Drouhin, che trae numerose immagini dalle migliaia di webcam sparse →
