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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31.01.02 Orang distrutto cerca aiuto.
Orang (Open Radio Archive Network Group), è un archivio storico di quasi 40 giorni totali di brani di musica elettronica sperimentale, fruibile →
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31.01.02 Numbers, net art contro la guerra (6).
Gli Entropy8Zuper!, la raffinata crew di net artisti, ha appena reso pubblica online la loro ultima fatica, dal titolo →
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31.01.02 Netstrike contro il World Economic Forum.
Si tiene da oggi (31/01) fino al 4 febbraio il netstrike contro il World Economic Forum in corso a New →
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31.01.02 Nanopops.
Sulla scia delle delle tecniche di microanimazione rese celebri dai webdesigner K10K, Nanopops ricostruisce fra il serio e il faceto diverse minuscole animazioni fatte di →
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30.01.02 Snownoise, naturalismo e suoni frattali.
Snownoise è un’operazione di net art condotta da uno dei maggiori sperimentatori di suoni elettronici degli ultimi anni: Carsten Nicolai. Si →
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30.01.02 Slipstream, net art interventista.
Cosa si può nasconde nelle pieghe delle directory e dei server? Slipstream è un progetto finanziato dall’inglese Film and Video Umbrella, che →
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30.01.02 Reamweaver 2.0, parodyware degli Yes Men.
La versione 2.0 di Reamweaver, il ‘parodyware’ in precedenza denominato YesIWill (vedi RTMark: YesIWill, primo parodyware), è disponibile online, e →
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30.01.02 La ElcomSoft attaccherà il DMCA.
La ElcomSoft, azienda che impiegava Dmitry Sklyarov, cercherà di attaccare le basi fondanti del Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), cercando di →
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30.01.02 Edonkey2000, nuovo network p2p.
eDonkey2000 è diventata un’altra delle alternative in salute nell’universo peer-to-peer di scambio paritario di files. Il network, basato su una combinazione unica →
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29.01.02 Takemura prepara la voce del nuovo AIBO.
Kobukazu Takemura, uno dei maggiori musicisti sperimentali elettronici del sol levante, è stato incaricato dalla Sony di progettare i →
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29.01.02 Sundance Online Film Festival awards.
Anche quest’anno sono stati assegnati i premi del Sundance Online Film Festival, festival che nella sua tradizione sonda le produzioni indipendenti →
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29.01.02 Nuovo satellite francese per monitorare il territorio.
Sono in corso gli ultimi ritocchi allo ‘Spot 5’, il satellite francese che sarà lanciato ad aprile, per stazionare →
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29.01.02 Poliedri mutanti in VRML.
Junichi Yananose è un artista di Tokyo (Giappone), creatore di puzzle meccanici. Le sue opere sono dei poliedri modificabili dinamicamente in VRML, →
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29.01.02 Microfilms, animazioni in gif.
Nell’euforia da banda larga, sembra che tutto ciò che si anima su web debba essere in mpeg o in real video. A →
