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.
Forse un giorno ricorderemo Twitter come il culmine dell’esibizionismo in rete inaugurato da blogs e social networks. Difficile immaginare qualcosa di più compulsivo: Twitter è una community di migliaia di persone che →
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Nella ‘sonoluminescenza’ l’attuale enfasi sulla convergenza fra scienza e arte s’incontra con l’urgenza di dare al suono una dimensione sonora, cha ha pervaso la spazio d’ascolto nell’ultima →
Missing Persons è un’istallazione di Trevor Paglen. Artista e scrittore, Paglen sviluppa il suo lavoro lungo la sottile linea che separa le scienze sociali e l’arte contemporanea mettendo in atto insolite metodologie di →
Sonar 2007, at its fourteenth edition, will be held in Barcelona this year from the 14th to the 16th of June. As usual the event is based on music and multimedia art, featuring →
Spamland è la serie di video prodotti dai Brothers McLeod usando come sceneggiature il cosiddetto ‘inauthentic text’ usato nei messaggi di spam. L’inauthentic text è costuito da nonsensi generati automaticamente e grammaticamente corretti che →
Cut Chemist è il nome d’arte di Lucas MacFadden, noto disc jokey solista. Il suo primo solo album, prodotto da Warner e che include il tema utilizzato nel recente spot dell’iPod Nano da →
Sono i blog la nuova ‘bolla’ pronta a esplodere? Secondo la metafora adottata da Bill Shakelford per l’installazione interattiva ‘Blogged’, la risposta è affermativa. Questo esempio d’arte web 2.0 consiste in un palloncino di →
Mediaterrae photo set
La scaltra idea del team curatoriale del festival Interferenze è stata stavolta di portare un gruppo internazionale di artisti elettronici (visuali e sonori) al carnevale molto particolare di Montermarano, durante la →
Sound Modulated Light #1 is a lights-and-sounds project designed by Edwin Van Der Heide, an artist from The Netherlands. Considering the dynamics triggered to activate the installation, Sound Modulated could be →
Le audio cassette, il medium che ha offerto a milioni di utenti infinite possibilità di ricombinare in chiave personale suoni ed emozioni introducendo la moda della compilation auto-prodotta, sembrano ormai un ricordo di →
