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.
A Londra, presso la galleria Furniture Works, si è inaugurata Sequences, mostra che celebra l’arte e la storia della cronofotografia. Sviluppatasi alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo principalmente grazie al contributo di étienne-Jules Marey ed Eadweard Muybridge, →
Working Title è l’ultima fatica del net.artist e dj Cuechamp (aka Rick Silva), e consiste in quattro minuti di cura ‘Ludovico Van’. Si tratta infatti di una sequenza di titoli di testa di film, disposti →
Lo schermo è il luogo che accoglie la verità (presunta) della nostra società mediatica. I pixel illuminati cambiano costantemente, rappresentando il reale attraverso i loro colori in continuo movimento e le loro icone costruite. Il →
Le tecnologie digitali industriali puntano a un cinema inteso come spazio virtuale d’immersione in cui lo spettatore inter/agisce ora come operatore di ripresa, ora come editor. Nulla di virtuale hanno invece i set cinematografici realizzati →
Indubbiamente, l’opera Quadratime degli seite4, software d’arte frattale astratto, facente parte della mostra Algorithmische Revolution presso lo ZKM di Karlsruhe, e ispirato al dipinto Quadrato nero (1915) di Kazimir Malevich, rappresenta una delle più naturali derivazioni →
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Riassumere quindici anni di (new) media art non è un compito semplice, né per la concezione di una mostra, néonnicomprensive per la →
Nell’opera Live City, l’artista di Baltimora Daniel Shiffman ci mostra una metropoli impercettibilmente pulsante, che si colora di luci nel momento in cui lo spettatore decide di partecipare al processo creativo. Inizialmente osserviamo una griglia →
La trasformazione di un brano in dati musicali binari non è, ovviamente, un mero processo tecnico. Le implicazioni teoriche e pratiche scaturite dall’infinita manipolabilità dei dati ottenuti sono numerose e diverse. La scorporeizzazione dei brani, e →
A Painting Of Three Places, dell’artista e insegnante islandese Pall Thayer, già autore di Panse, International Spontaneous Jam Session e Hlemmur in C, è una rappresentazione spaziale 2D che si basa su →
Tre superfici verticali con affisso un numero variabile di webcam munite di ventola delimitano lo spazio fisico percorribile dell’installazione, mentre – in remoto – utenti internet controllano l’orientamento degli stessi dispositivi in senso orizzontale →
