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.
University of California Press, ISBN-13: 978-0520275003, 208 pages, 2012, English, USA
Il concetto di “capsula del tempo” è strettamente legato a un’immaginazione che potrebbe essere attivata in un tempo futuro, in maniera tale che un evento possa diffondere contenuti ad →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262018463, 328 pages, 2012, English, USA
La cultura del codice è stata studiata e ha prodotto interessanti teorie che hanno trovato accoglienza in diverse pubblicazioni innovative. Questi libri hanno spesso come obiettivo l’incorporare i concetti correlati →
ISBN-10: 394240589X, 240 Pages, 2012, English
La cover di questo catalogo è stampata su carta ad effetto specchio, riflettendo chi guarda o cerca di scattare una foto della pubblicazione (e i tentativi d’una simile operazione possono essere osservati su Google →
edited by Dieter Daniels, Inke Arns, Spector Books, ISBN: 9783940064417, 296 pages, 2012, German, English
Ci sono state innumerevoli celebrazioni del centenario della nascita di John Cage nel mondo, eventi che hanno coinvolto diverse generazioni, ammaliate da uno degli artisti →
edited by Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits – RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, ISSN: 1407-2858, 168 pages, 2012, English
Acoustic Space è una pubblicazione fondata nel 1998, →
Polity, ISBN: 9780745650265, 200 pages, 2012, English
Per capire il presente “futuristico” che viviamo è assai importante conoscere il nostro passato. Questo sembra particolarmente vero quando si tratta di cultura dei →
Taschen, ISBN: 978-3836525015, 416 pages, 2012, English
Nel 1991 due dei più talentuosi designer grafici di tutti i tempi (Jon Wozencroft e Neville Brody) lanciarono un esperimento unico: FUSE, una pubblicazione annuale →
Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, French
In quale formato una monografia può essere elaborata al giorno d’oggi? È una questione aperta che s’interroga su due domini →
Princeton University Press, ISBN: 978-0691144610, 264 pages, 2012, English
L’intero ecosistema di hacking e FLOSS sono stati raramente considerati dalla ricerca accademica, nonostante il loro agire fosse spesso identificato come una formidabile produzione collettiva. FLOSS è stato considerato più →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-0816670055, 248 pages, 2012, English
Il concetto di “viralità” nei network fu inizialmente associato all’infezione dei computer virus (e in parte è ancora così oggi), prima di venire a descrivere la rapida →
