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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19.10.01 Nurturing the cybercommons.
È tempo anche dell’annuale meeting del CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsability), che quest’anno festeggia il ventennale intitolando l’incontro Nurturing the cybercommons. L’attenzione →
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18.10.01 We’re Not Really Here.
‘We’re Not Really Here‘ è un nuovo progetto di net.art creato dall’artista irlandese Conor McGarrigle. Si basa sulla sensibilizzazione degli utenti riguardo →
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18.10.01 Tele(visions).
S’inaugura oggi alla Kunsthalle di Vienna Tele(visions), una mostra dedicata alla televisione, medium per eccellenza, principale serbatoio della nostra memoria collettiva, creatore e manipolatore di →
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18.10.01 mp4, Britney Spears morta e brani con data di scadenza.
– Un’insieme di specifiche per lo streaming audio e video in mpeg-4 su web è stato →
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18.10.01 Kruder & Dorfmeister, Ant-Zen night, Anubian Lights.
Comincia oggi la tournèe italiana di Kruder & Dorfmeister, che suoneranno stasera al Goa di Roma, per proseguire domani →
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17.10.01 Make World.
S’inaugura domani alla Muffathalle di Monaco di Baviera, in Germania, Make World un convegno internazionale che affronta diversi temi quali la libertà di circolazion, →
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17.10.01 Interface Explorer.
S’inaugura domani al Public Netbase Media Space di Vienna, in Austria Interface Explorer, shared boundaries un convegno che tenterà di analizzare il design delle →
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17.10.01 Amazon preview, P2P popolari e protezioni cd.
– Secondo alcune voci Amazon.com starebbe per annunciare un accordo con la Speedera di Santa Clara per fornire lo →
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16.10.01 Respinto folle emendamento anti-privacy della RIAA.
Confermando le voci di riunioni segrete e azioni spregiudicate (vedi Incontro segreto dell’industria dell’intrattenimento) un emendamento letteralmente assurdo era stato →
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16.10.01 PGP in vendita.
La Network Associates ha annunciato la ricerca di un compratore per il suo prodotto di crittazione PGP, ossia Pretty Good Privacy. Secondo i →
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16.10.01 De-text.
De-text è un nuovo software pubblico sviluppato per facilitare lo scambio e l’archiviazione di testi sulla rete. Scritto in PHP3 vuole creare una serie di →
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16.10.01 Carnivore Art.
Carnivore è un progetto d’arte in network composto di due parti. Da un lato c’è il Carnivore Server, un applicazione che compie dei ‘packet-sniffing’ →
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16.10.01 archivi di Steina and Woody Vasulka online.
La Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology ha messo online una sezione del suo sito dedicata a →
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15.10.01 Napster, mp3Pro, vendite e altre storie.
– Vendite in calo. Secondo la IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) le vendite musicali mondiali su supporti fisici →
