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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02.04.02 Techno Poetry Festival 2002.
Per due giorni (1 e 2 Aprile) si svolge al Wesley Center for New Media, presso il Georgia Tech ad Atlanta (USA), →
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02.04.02 Salviamo le radio online.
Le radio online indipendenti hanno ancora la loro ragion d’essere in quanto riescono a trovare banda e piccoli sponsor per sopravvivere. Ma →
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02.04.02 Invisible Maps, cartografie dell’inconscio.
Invisible Maps è l’opera di net art dell’artista statunitense Paul Catanese, e consiste in una serie di animazioni in shockwave dal sapore →
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02.04.02 Flashforward 2002, festival di flash digerati.
Comincia il 2 Aprile 2002 all’Herbst Theatre di San Francisco (USA), il Flashforward 2002, uno dei maggiori festival dedicato alla →
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29.03.02 Weekender: Mega evento trance a Montalbano (Puglia), Foetus, live videomaking, Timo Maas.
Bell’evento per venti ore consecutive dalla sera di sabato, nei dintorni di Montalbano con →
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29.03.02 Stallman: i brevetti software sono una lotteria.
In un intervento al Cambridge University Computer Lab, Richard Stallman ha affermato che i brevetti del software sono una →
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29.03.02 Nuovo progetto di media-center a New York.
Eyebeam, un’organizzazione non a fini di lucro per l’arte ha annunciato che la coppia di architetti Elizabeth Diller e →
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29.03.02 Art Open Source, dibattito a Webcity (Firenze).
Neural è fra gli ospiti al dibattito ‘Art Open Source’, Sabato 30 marzo, alle 18:00, presso la stazione Leopolda →
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29.03.02 60×1.com, net art come splash page.
Un tripudio di colori e immagini incastrate in un sarcastico delirio cromatico di forme conosciute che diventano →
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28.03.02 Old-computers.com, vasto archivio di retrocomputing.
Old-computers.com è un portale che cerca di costruire un database completo e dettagliato della storia dei modelli di personal computer dal →
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28.03.02 LaCaRa*BoLa, net poetry brasiliana.
LaCaRa*BoLa è l’opera di net.poetry di Reiner Strasser, che sfruttando i potenziali ‘polimediali’ e ‘polilineari’ come lui stesso li definisce della rete, →
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28.03.02 Gnomes on Auction, il fascino trash dei nani all’asta elettronica.
I siti di aste online, Ebay in testa, rappresentano sempre più uno spaccato dell’umanità vera, con →
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28.03.02 Dominio scippato ad una pop star canadese.
La pop star canadese Lara Fabian ha richiesto alla World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) la restituzione del suo dominio →
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28.03.02 beat_LESS, net art minimale.
Se il minimalismo sta conoscendo nella musica elettronica il culmine della sua stagione più feconda in un momento prolifico di produzioni e →
