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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06.02.02 Netstrike in Argentina.
Oggi (06/02) alle 15:00 Indymedia Argentina organizza un netstrike contro Ambitoweb, un giornale conservatore che sta portando avanti una campagna contro gli scioperi →
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06.02.02 Les Htmlles, festival di net art femminile.
Les Htmlles è un festival di net art sottotitolato ‘The Double, The Multiple and the contamination in web art’, →
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06.02.02 CD incopiabile? Impossibile.
Nella conferenza ‘The Second Coming of Online Music’, all’interno del ‘Digital Media Summit‘, un’incontro di esperti delle nascenti multinazionali dei sistemi di produzione →
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06.02.02 Arte con i codici a barre (Bar Code Art).
Bar Code Art comprende i lavori di Scott Blake, un net artista che fa dei codici a →
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05.02.02 Transmediale02, go public!, festival di new media art a Berlino.
L’edizione 2002 di Transmediale comincia oggi (05/02) a Berlino, con un notevole dispiegamento di mezzi e →
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05.02.02 Netstrike contro il WEF, partecipato in massa.
Gli screen-saver approntati dall’Electronic Disturbance Theatre hanno dato i loro frutti, visto che insieme agli altri contatti generati dagli →
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05.02.02 Netomatheque, net art per navigare in altro modo.
Si concluderà fra qualche giorno (09/02) ‘3 seconds in the memory of the internet’, la mostra di Maciej →
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05.02.02 Music swapping in USA e Giappone.
Che la fruizione musicale sia un’attività piacevole sulla rete è è cosa risaputa, ma la Ipsos-Reid, società di ricerche sulle →
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04.02.02 Parallel, visualizzatore sonoro.
Parallel v1.0 è un visualizzatore musicale in tempo reale scritto in java. Utilizza le api Java 2D ed è controllato da messaggi midi, →
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04.02.02 BBC e Kenwood scelgono Ogg Vorbis.
Due importanti notizie danno ulteriore leggittimità al formato di compressione audio Ogg Vorbis, l’unico sviluppato secondo i sani principi del →
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04.02.02 Googlewhacking.
Se l’arte in rete si caratterizza anche per l’utilizzo non convenzionale delle sue tecnologie, allora il Googlewhacking è a tutti gli effetti un opera d’arte →
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04.02.02 Furti d’identità e truffe al top delle proteste dei consumatori USA.
Le maggiori lamentele dell’anno appena trascorso per questioni della rete, secondo un rapporto della Federal →
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04.02.02 Free Radio Linux.
Free Radio Linux è una stazione radio online e in etere. Le sue trasmissioni consistono in una lettura, effettuata tramite un software di →
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01.02.02 020202 Movimenti Multimediali, domani sera a Firenze.
Domani sera (02/02) al Teatro Studio di Scandicci (Firenze) dalle 15:30 fino a dopo mezzanotte si terrà ‘020202 Movimenti →
