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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05.07.01 Khan ad ArezzoWave.
Questa sera ad Arezzo, per la rassegna ArezzoWave, concerto di Khan and The King Congo Powers (Matador records).
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05.07.01 Blue Stories a Roma.
Questa sera a Roma, alla Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, verrà presentato ‘Blue Stories‘, il nuovo spettacolo di Roberto Paci Dalò. →
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04.07.01 Safeaudio, ancora cd protetti.
La Macrovision Corporation ha sfornato un’altra tecnologia per la protezione da copia dei compact disc. Si chiama Safe Audio, ed è una →
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04.07.01 Screen saver anti corporation.
Nel giorno della festa dell’indipendenza americana il gruppo di attivisti di Adbusters ha lanciato Flag Jam un’iniziativa di disobbedienza civile che ha →
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04.07.01 Legge editoria: eretico sotto accusa.
Eretico.com era un sito che prendeva per i fondelli la religione cattolica e fu sequestrato a giugno (vedi Sequestrato Eretico.com). Ora →
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03.07.01 Thievery Corporation e St. Germain a Milano.
Stasera al Centro Sportivo Saini di Milano concerto di Thievery Corporation (nella foto), St. Germain e dj set di →
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03.07.01 Invisible Nation.
È online il primo numero di Invisible Nation, sito che raccoglie pezzi d’arte interattiva, perloppiù in Flash e Shockwave. In quest’uscita ‘Sonic Breakbeat’ (nell’immagine), →
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02.07.01 Peekabooty, software anti-censura.
Il gruppo di hacker radicali Cult of the Dead Cow ha annunciato a breve la release di ‘Peekabooty’ un software che a detta →
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02.07.01 Moduli acustici sensibili.
Oggi al Goethe-Institut di Rotterdam s’inaugura oggi ‘Sensible akustische Modules‘, un opera di moduli acustici appositamente disegnati da tre artisti di Colonia: Felix →
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02.07.01 Liquid Audio watermarking.
Liquid Audio ha annunciato la registrazione di un ennesimo brevetto ottenuto dall’U.S. Patent Office per il watermarking dei brani audio digitali. La nuova →
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– Sabato a Ravenna, al Museo dell’arredo Contemporaneo
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– Sabato su RaiRadioDue, →
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29.06.01 Virus musicale, scherzo del 4 luglio.
Fidando sul possibile senso di colpa di chi scambia liberamente brani musicali sulla rete un fantomatico gruppo ha diramato un →
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29.06.01 Microfest 01.
S’inaugura oggi a San Pietroburgo Microfest 01, festival di new media art che mette insieme undici artisti russi. Fra le opere sperimentabili via web →
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29.06.01 Aktive.
Al Forte Prenestino a Roma, oggi e domani, ci sarà una due giorni di azioni culturali in preparazione alla mobilitazione contro il G8 a Genova. →
