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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28.05.01 Video d’arte per il Palm.
Il collettivo di artisti dei nuovi media Nomads, ha creato ‘Mobile Media’, una serie di video creati specificatamente per il PalmOS. →
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28.05.01 Napster: RIAA vs. Aimster, album interi e HOB.
La RIAA ha trovato il suo nuovo capro espiatorio, citando in giudizio Aimster per ‘copyright infringement’. Stavolta Aimster →
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28.05.01 Emarker, gadget per spiare la radio.
Lanciato negli Stati Uniti, l’Emarker della Sony, è un giocattolino dal modico prezzo di venti dollari che alla pressione di →
– Venerdì a Milano, al Cox 18
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– Sabato a Bologna, al Link
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– Sabato a Milano, al Cox 18
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25.05.01 Legge editoria: protesta via mail.
L’ultima protesta contro l’iniqua legge sull’editoria è organizzata dal sito Utenti.org, che sta per mettere a disposizione una pagina per inviare →
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25.05.01 Free J.
L’iperattivo Jaromil, net.artista e programmatore italiano già creatore della mitica Hasciicam e del software di streaming multiplo di mp3 MUSE, ha sfornato l’ennesimo software →
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25.05.01 Database di titoli in ostaggio.
La Gracenote, detentrice del database di informazioni CDDB, contenente dati su 885.000 album musicali, ha fatto causa alla Roxio, produttrice del →
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24.05.01 Stirling’s festival for new music and sound.
‘Le Weekend 2001‘ è il titolo del festival di musica e suoni innovativi che si tiene da oggi fino →
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24.05.01 Seminario usabilità a Roma.
Stasera alle 21:00 al Forte Prenestino di Roma, decimo degli incontri di Jet Net, dal titolo ‘Accessibilità e Usabilità dei siti web’, →
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24.05.01 Digital is not analog.
Si inaugura oggi a Bologna, presso il centro Salara ‘Digital is not analog 01’, una tre giorni internazionale di incontri e mostre →
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23.05.01 Italian Landscape.
Stasera, alla Galleria dÕArte Moderna di Torino, ‘Italian Landscapes’, una performance di ‘lounge theatre’. Protagonisti tre gruppi con altrettante nuove produzioni appositamente commissionate di →
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23.05.01 SDMI ancora un fallimento.
In una riunione della scorsa settimna l’SDMI (il consorzio formato da major e hardware/software houses) non è riuscito a trovare un accordo →
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23.05.01 E-phos.
S’inaugura oggi ad Atene la terza edizione di E-phos, International Festival of Film and New Media on Art, dedicato al tema ‘Body Kinesis, anamorphosis in →
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22.05.01 Vivendi acquista mp3.com.
Vivendi Universal, braccio digitale della major Universal, ha comprato per 372 milioni di dollari mp3.com, al fine di potenziare Duet, il sistema di →
