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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17.05.01 Robert J. Chassell a Milano.
Oggi a Milano, al Palazzo delle Stelline, nell’ambito di Linux@work, conferenza sull’uso professionale di Linux, sarà ospitato un intervento di Robert →
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17.05.01 Copiato compact disc ‘incopiabile’.
La Music City Records, un’etichetta country di Nashville (Tennesee) aveva annunciato qualche giorno fa con grande enfasi l’uscita del suo primo cd →
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16.05.01 È morto Douglas Adams.
L’indimenticabile autore della ‘Guida galattica per autostoppisti’ (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) è morto ieri all’età di 49 anni per un →
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16.05.01 Conversazioni artificiali.
La nuova installazione di Ken Feingold alla Postmasters Gallery di New York ? letteralmente capace di conversare con l’utente. Denominata ‘If/Then‘, consiste in due →
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16.05.01 Basement Jaxx a Milano.
Oggi a Milano, ai Magazzini Generali, dj set dei Basement Jaxx, alfieri da diversi anni di una sofisticata house, inusuale ed effervescente, →
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15.05.01 Napster: test, studenti sospesi, Aimster.
Napster ha cominciato a reclutare utenti per testare il sistema a pagamento, sotto lo specchietto di preview del nuovo sistema. Il →
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15.05.01 mp3.com si sposta sui cellulari.
Mp3.com ha dichiarato di stare abbracciando la piattaforma BREW della Qualcomm per consentire ai suoi utenti di accedere al suo possente →
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15.05.01 Disegni collaborativi.
‘Beauty and chaos through time and space’ è il nome dell’interessante installazione di Eric Deis, che ha approntato un sorprendente tool di disegno collaborativo →
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14.05.01 Muscoli e suoni.
Teresa Marrin Nakra (nella foto) è un’ex ricercatrice del MIT che ha sviluppato un gilet in lycra dotato di sensori che si allungano →
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14.05.01 Crash possibili di router Cisco.
La Cisco, maggior produttrice mondiale di router, ha pubblicamente ammesso un possibile problema col BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), il quale, se →
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14.05.01 Angelica festival.
S’inaugura oggi al Link di Bologna, l’Angelica festival, festival di musica sperimentale che indaga gli interstizi fra musica colta, elettronica, teoria e innovazioni autocostruite. →
– Venerdì a Milano, al Tunnel
.Clifford Gilberto (nella foto) + Four Tet (Ninja Tune) uk
– Venerdì a Torino, al Supermarket
.Mirko Loko + N.Twan (tech-funk) ch
– Venerdì e Sabato a →
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11.05.01 Dammi un’idea per un brano.
Slick Rick, rapper statunitense, chiama a raccolta fan e appassionati per produrre insieme uno dei brani del suo prossimo album. Sul →
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11.05.01 Falsi titoloni autogenerati.
Daniel Young è l’americano resposabile di NewZoid, un lavoro di internet art che genera continuamente e in maniera completamente automatica, falsi ‘titoli principali’ →
