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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15.04.02 Intercettare gli Instant Messaging.
Il monitoraggio degli instant messages, ossia i messaggi inviati da programmi come ICQ, è diventato l’obiettivo di alcune software house. Nel 2001, →
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15.04.02 Google.art, poesie censurate.
Qualificatosi come il motore di ricerca più utilizzato in assoluto, Google sta lentamente assurgendo a terreno di sperimentazione della net art, così come →
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15.04.02 Rimettere in circolo i cd di seconda mano.
La condivisione delle proprietà personali può anche trovare compromessi interessanti rimettendo sul mercato materiale usato, e sviluppando un →
I Love You, computer virus hacker culture, book, 150 pages, curated by Franziska Nori
25.00 Euro (including shipping in Europe)
adonnam.mp3, filesharing the hidden revolution in the internet, book, 150 pages, curated by Franziska Nori
25.00 Euro (including shipping in Europe)
book, 400 pages, edited by Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin
33.00 Euro (+ 5.60 euro shipping in Europe)
by Alessandro Ludovico
What about a worldwide surveillance cameras survey? Did you ever planned collaborative efforts like this?
We are already helping to create a web site to which people could post pictures and →
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12.04.02 X-Media conference 3, design della comunicazione a Firenze.
Si è inaugurata l’11 aprile a Firenze la terza X-Media conference, conferenza internazionale sul design della comunicazione, intitolata →
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12.04.02 Weekender: Sintesi festival, Koop, Bertallot, Royalize, Phat’n’Small.
Il 12 e 13 aprile si tiene a Napoli in diversi luoghi (Chiesa S.Severo al Pendino, Notting Hill e →
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12.04.02 Opera Totale 7, festival di arti elettroniche a Mestre.
S’inaugura il 12 aprile al Centro Candiani di Mestre (Venezia), la settima edizione di Opera Totale, l’annuale →
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12.04.02 Isole nella Rete Annual Meeting a Milano.
Sabato 13 aprile alle ore 14:00, presso l’ex-ospedale psichiatrico Paolo Pini di Milano si svolgera’ l’assemblea annuale di Isole →
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12.04.02 Futuri Virtuali. Immaginario e realtà nell’era dei cyborg a Torino.
Sabato 13 aprile, si svolge nell’Aula magna della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione di Torino, il →
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11.04.02 I sonogrammi di Jeff Talman.
Jeff Talman è un’artista che usa determinate frequenze dette ‘standing waves’ o ‘room tone’, ossia i suoni (fra i 2000 e →
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11.04.02 sonicPersephone, inferni sonori e testuali.
Aperto da un brano tratto dalle ‘Città Invisibili’ di Italo Calvino, sonicPersephone è un opera di flash.art della californiana Christina McPhee, →
