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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02.11.01 Vittoria per codice che cracca i DVD.
Una vittoria storica per la libera pubblicazione del codice è stata ottenuta dagli autori del DeCSS, il programma che →
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02.11.01 RTMark ‘spoofano’ il sito del WTO.
Il collettivo RTMark ha registrato il dominio www.gatt.org (il GATT, General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, era il predecessore del →
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02.11.01 Interstanding 4.
È in corso da ieri al Center for Contemporary Arts di Tallin, in Estonia Interstanding 4, quarta edizione della conferenza internazionale qui organizzata ogni →
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02.11.01 ArtSci2001.
Si inaugura oggi al Graduate Center of the City University di New York ArtSci2001, l’annuale meeting organizzato dall’Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCII), che raccoglie →
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31.10.01 Nuova lista internazionale di hacktivism.
‘Widdershins‘ è una nuova mailing list internazionale che si propone di discutere dell’intersezione fra hacking e hacktivism, politica e governo, cyberspazio →
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31.10.01 Storybeat esperimenti di net.art.
Storybeat è un progetto lanciato da Geoffrey Thomas, un’artista che insegna allo School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Il sito raccoglie →
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31.10.01 Nordic Interactive Conference.
S’inaugura oggi al Bella Center di Copenhagen la Nordic Interactive Conference centrata sulle possibilità di sviluppo creativo e produttivo nell’ambito digitale dell’area ‘nordica’ →
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31.10.01 Archeologia della media art ungherese.
Il laboratorio C3 di Budapest ha inaugurato un nuovo ambizioso progetto web di archeologia dei media. Si tratta della The History →
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31.10.01 Ligaçoes/Links/Liaisons.
È in corso a Oporto, in Portogallo, Ligaçoes/Links/Liaisons una conferenza internazionale di cybercultura a cui partecipano oltre a numerosi studiosi locali dell’estetica dei media anche →
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30.10.01 Strumenti giocattolo modificati.
Carrionsound è un sito dedicato all’hackeraggio ‘hardware’ di giocattoli e piccoli strumenti per bambini, al fine di dotarli di ulteriori peculiarità sonore riconfigurandoli →
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30.10.01 Pubblicità anti-privacy.
“3 di loro usano software illegale, 1 di loro è un hacker, 1 di loro spende due ore al giorno giocando online, 2 di →
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30.10.01 Digital Media Festival nelle Filippine.
Si è da poco conclusa a Manila, nelle Filippine, l’edizione 2001 del Digital Media Festival, una rassegna di arti digitali ad →
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30.10.01 Codice di Carnivore online.
Network Ice, software house che produce prodotti per la sicurezza ha pubblicato sul suo sito una versione alternativa e free di Carnivore, →
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30.10.01 Eighth day, net.art transgenica.
È online e fisicamente visibile presso l’Institute for Studies in the Arts, dell’Arizona State University, Eighth Day →
