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.
Sopra un’inquietante loop musicale (ambient e oscuro) si sviluppa il calendario delle attività d’arte elettronica di Joshua Davis, nel suo sito Praystation. I giorni del calendario nella parte inferiore dello schermo portano ai work in progress e →
È già disponibile la beta per Windows di WebTracer, un opera di Tom Betts che eccelle nella scena dei ‘visulizzatori di struttura del web’. Il fine è quello di rappresentare adeguatamente la struttura ipertestuale come un diagramma →
Shopping Windows, “la net.art dopo l’e-commerce e la morte della net.art”, è il provocatorio titolo di una mostra online di lavori eseguiti su commissione che incrociano le strade dell’arte con internet e la fine del commercio elettronico →
Oggi a Bari presso l’Aula Magna ‘Attilio Alto’ del Politecnico di Bari dalle ore 16.00 si tiene il convegno ‘Autarchie Digitali’, diritti e frontiere dell’audiovideo. Interverranno Giovanni De Stefano (computer grafica), Luciano Sovena (diritto d’autore), Luigi Pannarale →
Oggi a Bologna per il ciclo d’incontri ‘Digital_is_not_analog’, presso i Salara Media Lab (via Don Minzoni 18), ‘Hacktivism, esperienze di attività e comunicazione politica indipendente in Internet’ con Ricardo Dominguez, dell’Electronic Disturbance Theatre/The Thing New York, che →
Short Stories è un progetto narrativo collettivo che ha coinvolto 26 artisti con altrettanti racconti da ‘remixare’. Fruibile fisicamente presso la Fabbrica del Vapore di Milano, e sviluppata da UnDo.Net, si snoda online attraverso un’interfaccia bilingue che →
Roman Minaev è l’autore di Trashconnection un sito di net.art che parte dalla definizione di trash online, ossia quelle informazioni inutili o superflue (banner e loghi pubblicitari perloppiù) che riempiono lo spazio visivo. Detournandoli e affiancandoli in →
Si inaugura oggi al Netherlands Media Art Institute di Amsterdam ‘hybrid <life> forms‘, una rassegna sull’arte dei nuovi media prodotta in Australia. Dai lavori esposti emergono le oscure confessioni, gli ibridi naturali e il senso di isolamento →
Si tiene oggi a New York il quarto International Browserday competizione per studenti e giovani designer che offrono soluzioni per ‘ridisegnare’ in qualche maniera l’interfaccia di rete. Ognuno di loro ha tre minuti per arringare →
Sarà trasmessa stasera alle 19:00, Ballettikka Internettikka – Part One: net.ballet. Una serie di immagini aggiornate ogni venti secondi secondi da una webcam riprenderanno la performance in cui Igor Stromajer interpreterà i codici HTML e Javascript del →
