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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26.07.01 Drive Scroll.
Drive scroll è il nuovo software d’arte di Greg Sidal. Si tratta di uno screen saver che mostra direttamente i dati di un’hard disk →
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25.07.01 I Public Enemy pagano i fan.
I Public Enemy chiamano a raccolta fan e musicisti. Sul loro sito ci sono dei brani in stile ‘a cappella’ →
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25.07.01 Nuovo CEO per Napster.
Si è dimesso Hank Barry (nella foto), ceo di Napster, e gli è subentrato Konrad Hilbers, ex executive della BMG che ha →
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25.07.01 Accordo MusicNet-Zomba.
MusicNet, il servizio online a pagamento che ha inglobato Napster e fondato da BMG, Warner ed EMI ha incassato anche l’adesione della Zomba Records, →
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24.07.01 G8: materiale online.
Un archivio pubblico di materiale sulla protesta anti G8 è stato allestito a tempo di record e suddiviso in testi, suoni e immagini. →
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24.07.01 Arte inglese sui cellulari.
Otto opere d’arte pensate per essere visualizzate sui minuscoli schermi dei telefoni cellulari possono essere comprate a poco più di mille lire →
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24.07.01 Adobe: rilasciate il sovietico.
La Adobe con una clamorosa marcia indietro, dopo l’incontro con l’EFF, ha annunciato che s’impegnerà per il rilascio di Dmitry Sklyarov della →
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23.07.01 Guerrilla Girls a banda larga.
Le Guerrilla Girls sono un collettivo artistico femminista che ha sempre saputo utilizzare al meglio i media per le proprie opere →
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23.07.01 G8: repressioni e proteste elettroniche.
Dopo l’ubriacatura mediatica di questi giorni sui fatti successi al G8 di Genova, restano alcuni fatti gravissimi. Uno dei più importanti →
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23.07.01 Adobe incontra l’EFF.
Alcuni dirigenti della Adobe incontreranno gli esponenti dell’EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) per discutere della denuncia effettuata dall’azienda guidata da John E. Warnock (nella →
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20.07.01 Telematic Connections.
Si inaugura oggi all’Austin Museum of Art, ad Austin in Texas, la terza tappa di ‘Telematic Connections: the Virtual Embrace’, una mostra di arte →
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20.07.01 Loveparade 2001.
Mentre a Genova si manifesta, a Berlino si balla. Inizia domani, con una settimana di ritardo sul previsto, la Loveparade del 2001 che promette →
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20.07.01 G8: per chi è a casa e online.
Chi non si è potuto recare a Genova per manifestare contro il G8, può seguire in diretta gli →
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19.07.01 Ogg Vorbis: audio libero come l’email.
In una recente intervista Christopher Montgomery, a capo del team che sta sviluppando Ogg Vorbis (standard di compressione audio open →
