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.
– Venerdì a Milano, al Cox18
.Dat Politics (nell’immagine), laptop experimental .fr
– Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.Underwolves, nu-jazz .uk
– Sabato a Riccione, al Cocoricò
.DJ Morpheus (Freezone compilation), →
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07.12.01 Technichs of Cyberfeminism.
Technichs of Cyberfeminism è una serie di incontri che per tre giorni animeranno il Thealit di Brema (Germania) chiedendo a diverse note esponenti →
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07.12.01 Le suonerie dei Wu Tang Clan.
Secondo la Loud Records, i Mobb Deep e i Wu-Tang Clan sono i primi artisti degli USA ad anticipare i →
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07.12.01 Sound in Art.
Sound in Art è un festival di sound art che si inaugura oggi alla Gallery Priestor di Bratislava (Repubblica Slovacca), con le opere →
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07.12.01 Farsi un giro nella backbone di World.com.
Adrian Lamo (nella foto) è un hacker nel senso più squisito del termine. La sua attività consiste nel provare →
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07.12.01 Casting a Net.
Inaugurata da qualche giorno come esposizione in una spazio fisico, ‘Casting a Net‘ è una selezione di net.art basata sull’eccellenza dei lavori più →
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06.12.01 Sonic Acts.
Per tre giorni al Paradiso, storico teatro/locale di Amsterdam si tiene ‘Sonic Acts 01‘, ottava edizione del prestigioso festival di ricerca elettronica e visiva. →
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06.12.01 Netmage 02.
S’inaugura oggi alle Scuderie Bentivoglio di Bologna la seconda edizione di Netmage, festival d’immagini nell’arte, nei media e nella comunicazione. Dotati di un dispositivo →
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06.12.01 ::fibreculture:: politics of a digital present.
‘::fibreculture:: politics of a digital present’ è il titolo della conferenza in corso a Melbourne (Australia), che prende nome dall’omonima →
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06.12.01 Electrohippie in protesta.
Il collettivo inglese degli Electrohippie sta proseguendo nelle sue dimostrazioni online quotidiane in alcuni giorni strategici come quello odierno, contro il locale Anti-Terrorism, →
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06.12.01 5th International Browserday.
Si è tenuto a Berlino il quinto International Browserday, la manifestazione che in un giorno dà la possibilità →
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05.12.01 Lanciato RealOne-MusicNet.
Il primo dei tanto annunciati servizi di distribuzione a pagamento di tracce musicali online è stato lanciato ieri. Si tratta di RealOne, il nuovo →
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05.12.01 La voce del web.
Domani alla Brooklyn Academy of Music sarà presentata l’installazione ‘Listening Post‘, un’opera di net.art/performance realizzata dall’artista sonoro Ben Rubin e dallo statistico →
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05.12.01 Guerre Stellari in telnet.
Non dev’essere stata un’impresa semplice, ma alla fine Snore il titolare di Asciimation ha convertito 13.935 frame del film Star Wars (Guerre →
