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.
‘E-naissance: new configurations of mind, body and space’ è un’importante conferenza che comincia oggi a Torino presso la Sala Conferenze della GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Organizzata dalla Fondazione Fitzcarraldo prevede fino a domani →
Nico Westerdale ha osservato come sugli schermi dei monitor degli uffici ci siano impronte digitali, spesso impresse come risultato di proposte di variazioni a quello che viene mostrato, fatte da colleghi o superiori. Per questo ha sviluppato →
Oggi alle 21:00, in via Barberia 4 a Bologna, seminario introduttivo sulla semiotica degli ambienti connettivo-immersivi intotolato ‘The DAMS after’. Con un comunicato diffuso da Franco Berardi (nella foto) si riepilogano quelle che saranno le materie di →
È in corso a Sheffield, fino a domenica Lovebytes, festival di computer based art and media. Coniugando web art (Jodi, Adaweb, Farmers Manual, Audiorom, Kunstradio, Radioqualia…) e nuova elettronica (Autechre, Oval, Taylor Deupree, Kim Cascone (nell’immagine), Scanner, →
S’inaugura oggi al Whitney Museum di New York ‘Bitstreams‘, un’imponente mostra che illustra l’importanza delle tecnologie digitali per l’arte americana. Lunga la lista degli artisti presenti, inclusi Jason Salavon, Robert Lazzarini e Ines Wan Lamsweerde (nell’immagine). Tenuti →
Oggi e domani alle 21:00, al teatro Out Off di Milano, Conservas – Femina Ex Machina, un percorso tra diverse situazioni sceniche con ironia surreale trattano gli stereotipi della donna sottomessa e del desiderio sessuale che accosta →
È in corso da domenica fino a giovedì il NAMM (Net-Art Meeting in Minsk), una serie di seminari e mostre che raccolgono la net.art bielorussa. Obiettivo è quello di consolidare la comunità degli artisti locali, confrotandola con →
Domenica alle 20:30, performance in webcast dalla galleria Stills di Edimburgo. Intitolata ‘trans-locale’, è un lavoro di Beverley Hood fruibile in CU-SeeMe. Tratta della videoconferenza come spazio immateriale nel quale spesso i partecipanti sono immobili davanti allo →
Nel sito della galleria parigina Vélodrome, trova spazio l’ultima installazione termodinamica della cinquantacinquenne Danielle Wallers, che disegna forme ‘organiche’ esponendo carta da fax a diverse quantità di calore.
Ultimo appuntamento oggi pomeriggio alle 18:00 alla Triennale di Milano con la rassegna ‘Racconti d’identità’. Eija-Liisa Ahtila è un’artista e videomaker che elabora i linguaggi della televisione e del cinema, con adeguata ironia per i loro paradossi →
