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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27.08.01 Hot Wired Live Art 2.
Al Banff Centre for the Arts di Banff, in Canada, è in corso la seconda edizione di Hot Wired Live Art, →
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27.08.01 Borderhack 2.0.
Ripensare i confini fisici di due stati attraverso un hacking culturale di luoghi dalle condizioni non facili. È questo che si propone il Borderhack →
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13.08.01 Sequestrato netstrike.it.
Il 10 agosto, con un provvedimento che ha dell’incredibile, la magistratura di Genova, nell’ambito di un’inchiesta generata dai disordini del G8, ha sequestrato il →
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10.08.01 HAL 2001.
Comincia oggi e proseguirà fino a domenica il HAL (Hackers At Large) 2001, mega convention hacker internazionale. L’evento quadriennale (dopo ‘The Galactic Hacker Party’ →
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10.08.01 FUSHIGI Jungle.
Inaugurata da qualche giorno FUSHIGI Jungle, mastondontica esposizione di sedici opere d’arte interattiva, realizzata a Kobe, in Giappone, presso la World Exhibition Hall. Curata →
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10.08.01 File 2001.
S’inaugura oggi a San Paolo in Brasile, File 2001 , un ‘Electronic language international festival’ che si tiene al Museu da Imagem e do →
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09.08.01 EFF difende l’anonimato.
In un crescendo di azioni legali concernenti la difesa dei diritti del cittadino elettronico, l’EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) ha chiesto ad un giudice →
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09.08.01 Conexion Remota.
Al Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Barcellona si è inaugurata Conexion Remota, mostra di net.art, sezione di ‘Antagonismos.Casos de Estudio’, esposizione di arte politica. →
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09.08.01 Anti-pirateria sovietica.
Una delegazione ukraina sarà a Washington la prossima settimana per cercare di prevenire le sanzioni dell’ente per il commercio americano, e nel contempo sta →
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08.08.01 Sin Live.
Oggi live set (audio-visual) del gruppo elettronico SIN (nell’immagine), presso il circolo ARCI Banale, nei pressi di Padovanelle, uscita Padova Est.
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08.08.01 Pressplay e MusicNet sotto inchiesta.
Finalmente anche l’elefantiaca giustizia americana si muove, e così il Justice Department (Ministero della Giustizia) ha aperto un’inchiesta anti-trust su Pressplay →
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08.08.01 Garage 2001.
Si è inaugurato da qualche giorno il quinto Garage Festival a Stralsund, in Germania, che tratta esplicitamente di rapporti fra immagine e suono. È →
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07.08.01 Rilasciato Dmitry Sklyarov.
50.000 dollari sono la cauzione pagata per mettere in libertà Dmitry Sklyarov, impiegato della Elcom (vedi FBI arresta partecipante DefCon), arrestato per aver →
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07.08.01 È morto Wau Holland.
È morto a 49 Wau Holland, co-fondatore del Chaos Computer Club. Personaggio fondamentale nel propugnare un uso pubblico dell’informatica, teso alla tutela →
