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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29.04.02 Lasciate la mia musica libera in rete.
Joseph Byrd è l’autore di un paio di album psichedelici alquanto sperimentali (‘The United States of America’ e ‘The →
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29.04.02 Grandfather Gets a House, net art letteraria collettiva.
Grandfather Gets a House è un opera di net art letteraria organizzata da Elizabeth Fischer, e costituita da →
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29.04.02 Dissidente vietnamita arrestato per i suoi testi in rete + Censura della Deutsche Bahn a Google.
– Ad Hanoi (Vietnam) è stato arrestato Pham Hong Son →
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26.04.02 Plug’n’play, laptop collective session a Londra.
Come ogni ultima domenica del mese al locale ‘Public Life’ di Londra si tiene la serata Plug’n’play, un evento che →
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26.04.02 Weekender: Micronanze festival, Aquasky, Prefuse 73, Dreadzone Soundsystem e Superfunk.
S’inaugura venerdì 26 aprile il mini-festival ‘Micronanze’, prima parte di alcuni microeventi che rimpiazzano il festival →
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26.04.02 [./logicaland v0.1], net art come simulazione economica globale.
Dopo un lungo download di tutte le librerie di java necessarie al funzionamento del complesso gioco di simulazione →
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26.04.02 Defacing del sito della Federal Aviation Administration.
Gli ufficiali della Federal Aviation Administration hanno confermato l’intrusione della loro rete informatica e il defacement del loro →
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26.04.02 E-privacy, riservatezza e diritti individuali in rete, convegno e Crypto Install fest a Firenze.
Si tiene il 27 aprile nel Salone de’Dugento di Palazzo Vecchio a →
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26.04.02 <di>fusion, ventiquattr’ore di performance collaborative in webcasting.
Riuscire ad esprimere compiutamente la prassi migliore della rete in un evento collettivo non è cosa da poco, ma →
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24.04.02 Gli Oasis lamentano le copie in rete del loro album non ancora uscito.
Il gruppo degli Oasis ha diramato un comunicato stampa in cui si lamenta →
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24.04.02 Home Maker, visioni d’interni comuni a 360 gradi.
Jeannie Finlay è l’autrice di Home Maker, una serie di quattro ritratti d’interni di anziani (fra i 64 →
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24.04.02 Flash accessibile per i sordi.
Jason Smith, direttore tecnico della American Association for the Advancement of Science ha creato un componente actionscript che permete anche ai →
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24.04.02 European Media Art Festival 02.
Si apre il 24 aprile l’edizione del 2002 dello European Media Art Festival a Osnabrück (Germania), con il motto ‘New Images →
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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 →
