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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15.03.02 Hint Is Not Television, davanti alle telecamere di sorveglianza di Bologna.
Oggi alle 16:00 per le strade di Bologna si tiene Hint (Hint Is Not Television), →
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15.03.02 Aimster vicina alla bancarotta.
Un anno dopo aver citato in giudizio la RIAA, Johnny Deep, il padrone di Aimster, uno dei network più frequentati per lo →
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14.03.02 Oval in tour in Italia.
Markus Popp, in arte Oval, l’eclettico compositore tedesco che da qualche anno ha sposato ai brani ottenuti attraverso processi generativi, uno →
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14.03.02 Net.film, i film che incarnano internet.
Un gruppo internazionale di artisti sta esponendo diverse interpretazioni del concetto di ‘net.film’ alle ‘The Ides of March’ una mostra →
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14.03.02 Lovebytes 2002, international festival of digital art.
Comincia oggi (14/03) a Sheffield (UK), il Lovebytes 2002, international festival of digital art, che si tiene ogni due →
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14.03.02 Flow, video in flash surrealista.
Elaborato dalla coppia Hoggerbrugge e Wiggle (rispettivamente animazione e musica) ‘Flow‘, ? un video in flash composto con il classico piglio →
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14.03.02 ‘Diventa media attivista’, stasera al Forte Prenestino.
Stasera (14/03), alle 21:00 al Forte Prenestino di Roma, si terrà il primo incontro del ciclo ‘Attivismo Digitale’ nella →
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13.03.02 La morte naturale dell’opera di net art.
In un impeto vecchio quanto il mondo dell’arte, il tedesco Frieder Rusmann (alias Johannes Auer) ha elaborato un sito →
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13.03.02 Glass Engine, la net art sonora di Philip Glass.
Glass Engine è un’interfaccia dinamica scritta in java che permette letteralmente di navigare attraverso oltre sessanta lavori →
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13.03.02 Critical Mass.
Oggi (13/02) i mediattivisti milanesi sono invitati tutti a partecipare alla prima edizione locale di ‘Critical Mass‘, un azione in difesa della libertà d’informazione →
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13.03.02 Chip nel corpo, body art post-telematica.
Cinque anni dopo il clamore sviluppato dal professor Eduardo Kac, che si fece inserire un microchip nella caviglia, durante una →
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13.03.02 Blubster.
Blubster è la comunità spagnola di scambio di mp3 attraverso un apposito network p2p. Dotato del suo proprio client, Blubster ottimizza il download dei file →
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12.03.02 Sophisticated Soiree, battiti cardiaci in streaming stasera.
Questa sera (11/03) alle 22:00, dalla BerlinerFestSpiele House di Berlino si terrà Sophisticated Soiree, (ascoltabile in webcasting audio) una →
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12.03.02 RIXC, ripensare il media center di Riga.
Da oggi (11/03) è: riunito a Riga (Lettonia) un gruppo internazionale di artisti ed architetti per ripensare il nuovo →
