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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19.09.01 All museums are virtual.
Oggi e domani all’Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Center di Sofia, in collaborazione con il festival itinerante medi@terra .01, si tiene la conferenza All Museums →
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17.09.01 Hacker Techniques.
‘Hacker Techniques : Download if you Dare!’ è il titolo della cinque giorni di workshop organizzati all’Hangar di Barcellona da Fiftyfifty.org. Dall’incontro degli strumenti →
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14.09.01 Word in Motion.
Domani al New Media Culture Centre di Riga, in Lettonia, si terrà Word in Motion, un festival di videopoesie e letteratura multimediale. Opere →
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14.09.01 In.Video/Attacco Psichico.
Domani a Torino dalle 23:00 fino all’alba, In.Video/Attacco Psichico, un evento di musica dal vivo con i dj di General Elektrik e immagini non →
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14.09.01 Videominuto.
Oggi al Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Prato, a partire dalle 21:00 si celebra la IX edizione di Videominuto, festival di video lunghi solo sessanta secondi. →
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13.09.01 Dot.nu sound and image.
Questa sera al Paradiso di Amsterdam, e in webcasting sulla rete, la terza edizione di ‘Dot.nu sound & image‘, una nuova collaborazione, →
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13.09.01 Xtravaganza.
The Builders Association fa debuttare oggi all’Athenaeum Theatre di Chicago ‘Xtravaganza’, uno spettacolo che campiona elementi dall’ultimo secolo di ‘entertainment’, remixandolo con la cultura del →
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11.09.01 ASU2.
È in corso a Labin, in Croazia, ASU2 un serie di workshop tecnico-informativi e conferenze sulle possibilità offerte dallo streaming audio/video e dai nuovi paradigmi →
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10.09.01 Cosign 2001.
S’inaugura oggi ad Amsterdam Cosign 2001, la prima conferenza internazionale sulla semiotica computazionale nei giochi e nei nuovi media. L’attenzione verrà posta sulle maniere →
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07.09.01 Contro le telecamere di sorveglianza.
Oggi viene tenuta la ‘Giornata Internazionale contro le Telecamere di Controllo’ organizzata per sensibilizzare i cittadini di ogni dove nei confronti →
