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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20.03.02 Crittografia Ottica.
Alla Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibit verrà presentato questa settimana un metodo di crittazione delle informazioni basato sulle fibre ottiche, e sulle loro →
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19.03.02 Vopos, il nuovo progetto degli 0100101110101101.ORG.
Vopos è il nuovo progetto degli 0100101110101101.ORG, dopo l’ultima clamorosa operazione al Korea Net.Art Festival (vedi). La coppia di bolognesi →
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19.03.02 Soundbug, il suono viene dalla mia testa.
Soundbug (nella foto) è uno dei gadget più interessanti in mostra al CeBIT di quest’anno. Si tratta di un →
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19.03.02 Picasso ebook.
La londinese Gandha Key ha pubblicato in rete il suo Picasso ebook, un progetto online creato per celebrare il 120esimo anniversario dalla nascita (o →
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19.03.02 Artista all’asta su Ebay.
Manifesta 4 è una delle mostre più importanti di arte contemporanea, dedicata ai giovani talenti europei, con cadenza biennale e fondata nei →
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19.03.02 La fine del Digital Rights management.
I segnali dall’industria della gestione dei diritti d’autore digitali sono sconfortanti. Negli ultimi nove mesi diverse sono state le aziende →
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18.03.02 I segreti dello spyware D.I.R.T rivelati.
D.I.R.T., il software disegnato per permettere alle forze dell’ordine di monitorare segretamente computer sospetti è stato reso disponibile su un →
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18.03.02 K’muni, una città cubica virtuale.
K’muni è la realizzazione in rete di una città inserita in un geometrico sistema strutturale. Ciascun utente può abitare uno spazio →
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18.03.02 Cd flessibili + le vendite dei cd-r superano quelle dei cd musicali + tasse canadesi sui cd-r.
– Dopo il prodotto annunciato un paio d’anni fa →
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18.03.02 Il biohazard dei Critical Art Ensemble.
L’ultima provocatoria operazione del gruppo dei Critical Art Ensemble è Genterra, una performance che cerca di far distinguere alle persone →
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18.03.02 webcast: ‘Art for Commerce/Commerce for Art’.
Oggi alle 21:30 (ora italiana) per la serie ‘Hybrid-Discourse’, dallo Sherwell Centre dell’Università di Plymouth (UK), sarà trasmessa via web →
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15.03.02 Reclaim Your Media.
Domani (16/03) si tiene a Roma ‘Reclaim Your Media‘, un corteo musicale e rumoroso organizzato da Indymedia Italia insieme a Radio Onda Rossa, →
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15.03.02 Poetic Dialogues 1.0.
Poetic Dialogues 1.0, di Yusef Merhi, artista argentino residente a New York, è un lavoro di net art comprensivo di diciotto brevi filmati, →
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15.03.02 New Forms of Electronic Writings.
Oggi (15/03) e domani all’Università della Sorbonne di Parigi si tiene l’International Conference on Literature & the Internet: New Forms of →
