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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08.05.01 Napster: acustic fingerprinting attivo.
L’ultima versione del client di Napster (la 2.0 Beta 10) periodicamente fa la scansione dei brani condivisi dall’utente e, in maniera casuale, →
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08.05.01 Advanced Audio Coding.
I Dolby Laboratories hanno annunciato la disponibilità di licenze per l’Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), una nuova tecnologia di compressione, particolarmente efficiente. Sviluppata secondo →
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07.05.01 Napster: declino, minorenni e Danimarca.
Le acque di navigazione di Napster cominciano ad essere torbide. La licenza del software di Gracenote, che stana i nomi simili →
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07.05.01 Jonctions, l’arte del codice.
È in corso a Bruxelles, Jonctions, un festival di arte dei nuovi media che quest’anno dedica al ‘Code‘, ossia il ‘codice’, nelle →
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07.05.01 Freenet Italia.
Dopo l’annuncio della mailing-list poco tempo fa (vedi Freenet: lista e primo nodo italiano), prosegue l’attività del primo nodo italiano di Freenet, che per →
– Venerdì a Roma, al Brancaleone
.Dj Die (Roni Size Reprazent Crew) featuring MC Rethna (d’n’b) uk
– Venerdì a Torino, al Supermarket
.Alessio Bertallot (breakstep) i
– Venerdì a Bologna, al Link
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04.05.01 Symphony of a City.
Symphony of a City è un progetto pubblico d’arte pensato per creare a Boston (U.S.A.) una riflessione sulle abitazioni popolari e la →
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04.05.01 Generi musicali e tecnologie.
Oggi alle 21:00 alla Sala Mascarella di Bologna conferenza di Franco Fabbri (musicologo e musicista, nella foto quando militava negli Stormy Six) →
È in corso alla Tate Britain di Londra un simposio, con relativa mostra dal titolo ‘Art and Money Online‘ che cerca di analizzare i collegamenti fra capitalismo e arte digitale. Presenti installazioni di: Black Shoals Stock (‘Market →
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03.05.01 Performance di theremin a Bologna.
Oggi alle 21:00 alla Sala Mascarella di Bologna conferenza di Giordano Montecchi sul tema ‘L’arpa di Robinson: dove si narra di →
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03.05.01 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
Si inaugura oggi il San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Durerà fino a domenica con performance di Bob Ostertag, Antimatter, Brandon La →
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03.05.01 Net.ephemera.
Si inaugura oggi alla newyorchese Moving Image Gallery, Net.ephemera, una mostra che cerca un nuovo approccio nel dibattito su come i musei e le gallerie →
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03.05.01 Legge editoria: Abruzzo e D’Alema.
Mentre D’Alema (nella foto) in un’intervista a DVDSat.it ribadisce la discriminante (secondo lui) della famigerata legge sulla stampa (ossia se il →
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02.05.01 Suonerie dei cellulari: delirio e SIAE.
La Envisional, un’azienda inglese di monitoraggio, ha rilasciato una stima secondo cui l’industria musicale perde un milione di dollari al →
