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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08.04.02 Telecamere piccolissime per pompieri, automobili e soldati.
Il record di telecamere ad infrarossi più piccole in assoluto (profonde quanto una chiave) è ora detenuto da due →
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08.04.02 Silence Machine, la macchina del silenzio.
Selwyn Wright, ingenere e docente all’Università di Huddersfield nello Yorkshire (UK), ha messo a punto dopo due anni di ricerche →
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08.04.02 n3xt.com, net art del loop visivo.
‘n3xt.com‘ presentata un paio di mesi fa dal DIAN, è un’opera di net art filmica dell’iraniana Shirin Kouladjie. Consiste in →
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08.04.02 The Mirror Project foto in superfici riflettenti.
Una delle cose che indubbiamente ha sempre affascinato la fantasia umana sono le superfici riflettenti, come gli specchi, per →
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08.04.02 DIAN presenta Dakota, net art letteraria di Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
Il DIAN (Digital Interactive Artists’ Network) è un network dedicato a coloro che usano le →
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05.04.02 Weekender: Coil, omaggio a Pietro Grossi, Blake Baxter+Chemical Brothers in radio.
Sabato 6 Aprile c’? l’unica data italiana dei Coil, storico gruppo inglese John Balance & →
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05.04.02 Net art italiana: Torinorama.
Torinorama, ? un ‘orama’, ossia un tentativo di nuova letteratura ipertestuale e non sequenziale messo a punto da David Boardman e Paolo →
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05.04.02 Rubi Con 2002, convention hacking e sicurezza.
Comincia il 5 Aprile il Rubi Con 2002, una convention americana sulla sicurezza e l’hacking che si svolge annualmente →
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05.04.02 HyPoem, hyperpoesia tipografica.
HyPoem è l’opera di ‘typographic hyperpoetry’ dell’austriaco Joerg Piringer, che ha creato un’ambiente in java dinamico e interattivo e capace di trattare il →
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05.04.02 Control Panels, programming as an artistic practice.
S’inaugura il 5 Aprile presso l’Hartware di Dortmund (Germania) la mostra di software art ‘Control Panels, programming as an →
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04.04.02 Russian Media Art, webcasting da Amsterdam.
Il 4 Aprile al teatro De Balie di Amsterdam (Olanda) si tiene ‘Russian Media Art, A Dutch Russian Media/Art/Project’, una →
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04.04.02 Hacking televisivo di una setta cinese.
Sette esponenti del gruppo Falun Gong sono stati arrestrati e accusati aver usato un sistema di televisione via cavo nella →
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04.04.02 Hacker Art al Forte Prenestino.
Il 4 Aprile 2002, nell’ambito degli incontri Jet-Net al Forte Prenestino di Roma, alle 21:00, si terrà l’incontro ‘Hacker Art’, introducendone →
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04.04.02 State of the Arts, simposio sulla letteratura elettronica.
Dal 4 al 6 Aprile si tiene alla UCLA di Los Angeles (USA) State of the Arts, Electronic →
