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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16.05.02 Aroma, culture digitali per tre giorni a Roma.
Aroma, numero zero ? una tre giorni di ‘comunicazione e cultura’ nella capitale curata dalla sinergia delle locali →
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15.05.02 Spiare un monitor a distanza.
Marcus Kuhn, un giovane professore associato dell’inglese Cambridge University, ha presentato una ricerca in cui mostra come chiunque dotato di un →
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15.05.02 Glimpses, The World After September 11.
Per ricordare i disastri dell’11 settembre c’è un progetto che ha continuamente spostato la sua data d’inaugurazione per includere sempre →
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15.05.02 cod3trip, net art sonora.
cod3trip è il sito che contiene le opere di Martin Franklin, al momento un paio di pezzi sonori da ascoltare e guardare. →
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15.05.02 Volto di Aphex twin codificato in una traccia + trucco per copiare cd protetti.
– Sembra arrivare direttamente dai peggiori incubi di ‘Come to Daddy’ il →
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15.05.02 I libri d’arte letteraria stampati ‘on demand’ di Alt-X.
Alt-X, la casa editrice specializzata in letteratura elettronica, messa su da Mark Amerika quasi dieci anni fa →
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14.05.02 Chiusi a Shanghai duecento Internet Bar.
La polizia di Shanghai ha chiuso circa duecento Internet Bar per essere stati trovati senza la licenza che li obbligava →
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14.05.02 Metapet, videogame art di lavoratori modificati geneticamente.
Il 15 maggio viene lanciato a Los Angeles ‘Metapet‘, un on-line game creato da Natalie Bookchin con Jin Lee, →
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14.05.02 Distillates, videopoema scomposto.
Distillates è una ‘trasposizione’ su web di un lavoro del videoartista RobRoy Chalmers, che combina una poesia scritta e visualizzata, un video digitale →
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14.05.02 Biocapture 1.0, net art letteraria in loop.
Kenji Siratori, un giovane autore di Sapporo (Giappone), autodefinitosi ‘scrittore ipermoderno che lavora in un ambiente digitale’ e autore →
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14.05.02 Angelica festival a Bologna.
Si è inaugurata il 13 aprile la dodicesima edizione di Angelica, festival Internazionale di Musica che quest’anno si presenta in una forma →
by Alessandro Ludovico
‘Digital with human touch’, this is often a synthetic description of your music. Do you think we’re getting used by interfacing ourselves with machines in a more and more symbiotic relationship, or →
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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, →
