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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30.11.01 SMDI, segreto di pulcinella.
Oltre alla sconfitta di 2600, sito + rivista, che avevano difeso la libera diffusione del software DeCSS attraverso link su web, si →
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30.11.01 Linux Day.
Domani si tiene in tutt’Italia il Linux Day 2001, promosso dall’ILS (Italian Linux Society), prima giornata nazionale di Linux e del software libero. Scopo →
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30.11.01 Life 4.0.
La giuria di Life 4.0, formata da Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sally Jane Norman, Daniel Canogar, Machiko Kusahara e Nell Tenhaaf, ha annuciato i suoi tre →
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30.11.01 Korea Web art festival.
Domani (1 dicembre) s’inaugura a Seoul il Korea Web Art Festival, con un’eccezionale anteprima di lavori inediti da parte di dodici fra →
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30.11.01 Cyberfem, net.art per sole donne.
S’inaugura oggi all’Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst di Oldemburg (Germania), la rassegna ‘Cyberfem: Spirit of Data’. Questa sera si aprirà con una performance →
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30.11.01 Il brutto anattroccolo.
In prima nazionale al Teatro Guido Monaco di Prato, domani alle 17:30 lo spettacolo teatrale per bambini ‘brutto_@natroccoloä‘, piece per attore e mouse, →
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29.11.01 TransUrbanism.
Oggi e domani al Netherlands Architecture Institute di Rotterdam si terrà il simposio internazionale ‘TransUrbanism: cities enter atmospheric phase’, sulla smaterializzazione dei confini fisici che →
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29.11.01 Richard Stallman a Bologna.
Richard Stallman è fra i relatori internazionali dell’Italian Cyberspace Law Conference in programma nel weekend all’Hotel Europa di Bologna. Prezzi d’ingresso solo →
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29.11.01 Musica e danza interconnessi (1).
Tomie Hahn, un’etnomusicologa della Tufts University ha sviluppato indieme a Curtis Bahn, ricercatore del Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, un’interfaccia per sincronizzare coreografie →
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29.11.01 CPA sgomberato.
Ieri pomeriggio è stato sgomberato il centro sociale CPA di Firenze. Dopo mesi e mesi di minacce è stato messo in atto lo sfratto →
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29.11.01 Net.art contro la guerra: afghan_explorer.
Afghan Explorer è il progetto (tecnicamente molto dettagliato ma fortemente ironico) di un veicolo robotizzato per l’acquisizione di conoscenze personali, ideato →
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28.11.01 Straylight online exhibition.
Una sezione dell’annuale Darklight Film Festival di Dublino è stata dedicata quest’anno ai lavori di net.art che, ciascuno a suo modo, mettono in →
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28.11.01 Pixxelpoint.
Pixxelpoint è un festival internazionale di musica e computer art in corso a Nova Gorica (Slovenia) al confine con la provincia di Gorizia. Esposti lavori →
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28.11.01 Osservatorio sulla democrazia.
È attivo il sito dell’osservatorio sullo stato della democrazia in Italia, scaturito dall’esigenza di offrire all’estero una serie di testi accessibili e informati →
