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.
Un’enorme macchina per creare quadri astratti. Così si presenta Giant Painting Machine ultima creazione del newyorkese Douglas Irving Repetto direttore del centro multimediale di musica alla Columbia University. Si tratta di un →
Durante tutto il ventesimo secolo la società occidentale è stata dominata dalla macchina. Il fascino esercitato sugli artisti dalla bellezza e dal potere dei processi meccanici ha stabilito un dialogo costante tra creatività →
Paul Slocum, artista texano con una laurea in Computer Science, si diverte a creare musica e video utilizzando computer e videogiochi obsoleti come il Commodore 64 o l’Atari 2600. Il →
L’ edizione 2007 di Transmediale, festival for art and digital culture, intitolata Unfinished s’inaugura il 30 Gennaio alla Akademie der Künste di Berlino. É il ventennale del festival che all’inizio si chiamava Videofest. →
Leggere il diario personale di altri può essere un gesto di puro voyeurismo oppure rivelarsi un punto di osservazione interessante su modi di vita diversi dai nostri. Grazie ai personal blog ci stiamo abituando →
La terza edizione dello Share festival (dopo il 2005 e 2006) si apre il 23 febbraio all’Accademia Albertina diBelle Arti di Torino. Per il primo anno è stato stabilito un premio, per il →
cd-rom – Electronic Literature Organization – ISSN 19322011
Anche se sfortunatamente perlopiù celebrata in Inglese madrelingua, la letteratura elettronica rappresenta un vasto e sottostimato campo di ricerca nei termini dell’estetica →
Second Life, uno dei MMORPG che vanta il maggior numero di “abitanti”, è un ottimo punto di osservazione per verificare come il confine tra reale e virtuale tende a diventare sempre più labile. Negli →
Mentre la cosiddetta società civilizzata inventa macchine sempre più potenti, vivere in mezzo a questi dispositivi diventa ogni giorno più complicato. Le persone si trovano spesso circondate da suoni e rumori creati accidentalmente →
book – Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500238227
“L’arte non è definita solamente dal suo contesto – la sua presenza nel mondo dell’arte tradizionale – ma piuttosto dal tipo e dalla qualità dell’esperienza →
