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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14.06.01 Sonar 2001.
S’inaugura oggi a Barcellona il Sonar 2001, festival di musica e arti digitali collegate. I tre giorni fittissimi di appuntamenti vedono la sezione art/design →
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14.06.01 Pirateria in crescita.
Secondo il report annuale dell’IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) la pirateria musicale è cresciuta del 25 per cento quest’ultimo anno con →
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14.06.01 Accordo FullAudio e BMG.
Primo accordo fra una major e un distributore di musica su Internet. La BMG ha stretto un accordo non esclusivo di tre →
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13.06.01 The Genomic Revolution.
S’inaugura oggi all’American Museum of Natural History di New York ‘The Genomic Revolution’, una mostra che cerca di esplorare interattivamente la rivoluzione genetica →
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13.06.01 Noema.
Oggi, ai Salara Media Lab di Bologna, a partire dalle 17:00, workshop di NOEMA.Lab, a cura di Pier Luigi Capucci e del suo staff su: →
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13.06.01 GNUtemberg!.
GNUtemberg! è un movimento che si occupa di ricercare ed indicare tutte quelle strutture che vendono copie cartacee stampate o fotocopiate di documentazione tutelata da →
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13.06.01 Incontri a Torino.
Da oggi fino a sabato 16, all’interno della festa di Radio Blackout a Torino, ogni sera alle 22:00 incontri su nuova legge sull’editoria, →
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12.06.01 Windows XP senza mp3.
La versione definitiva di Windows XP includerà solatanto ‘istruzioni’ su come installare encorder mp3 di terze parti, mettendo così in grado Windows →
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12.06.01 Mp3 Pro.
Fra un paio di giorni la Thomson Multimedia presenterà MP3Pro, una nuova versione del celebre standard che consente di ottenere la stessa qualità di →
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12.06.01 Caos e comunicazione.
Parteciperà alla decima edizione della Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dellÕEuropa e del Mediterraneo, in programma a luglio a Sarajevo, il lavoro di web →
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11.06.01 Vitaminic acquista Peoplesound.
Dopo l’accordo con la Fila, per dotare la catena di negozi sportivi di player e masterizzatori mp3, e l’aquisizione di IUMA.com e FranceMp3.com, →
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11.06.01 La transarchitettura di Shibuja.
L’ultima opera su web di Hidenori Watanave si chiama [red]20010606 e trasforma in maniera estrema il quartiere Shibuya di Tokyo in una →
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11.06.01 Ricerca libera (dall’industria discografica).
Dopo la censura attuata dall’SDMI (vedi SDMI censura la ricerca) L’Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ha chiesto ad un tribunale degli Stati Uniti →
– Venerdì a Ravenna, al Museo dell’arredo contemporaneo
.Jimi Tenor live & Nicole Willis (nella foto) dj set fin+usa
– Venerdì al Classico Village, a Roma
.Jon Carter, Cut La Roc, Maffia Soundsystem dj →
