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.
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Se è di moda definire la Cina come una nuova frontiera, non è sbagliato riflettere su come il capitalismo senza freni a cui è sottomessa la sua società stia →
Select Books, ISBN 1590790634
Lo spam incarna, con la sua ineluttabile quotidianità il processo di ‘subire’ le incertezze e le difficoltà della modernità. Ma, come pochi altri fenomeni, vede un aggravamento costante del peso imposto, →
book – Harvard University Press – ISBN 0674015436
The perspective of hackers as a social class is undoubtely fascinating a fascinating one. Thinking to this group of people all over the world →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262182408
La ricerca teorica sui videogame è in piena ondata di sviluppo con nuovi dipartimenti universitari dedicati, corsi di laurea, convegni internazionali e blog sul tema frequentemente aggiornati. Del resto →
The MIT Press, ISBN 026206247X
L’interazione fra diversi sistema mediali comporta la loro interpretazione come processi astratti, e tali infatti vengono considerati da Matthew Fuller, (già autore di Behind the Blip) in questo denso →
No Starch Press, ISBN 1593270321
L’impotenza che ciascuno registra quotidianamente nei confronti dello spam è legata non solo alla possibilità di ‘fermare’ l’invasione del proprio spazio di comunicazione elettronica privato, ma anche all’impossibilità di →
book – V2_Publishing – NAi Publishers – ISBN 9056623893
Fin dove l’arte elettronica è rappresentazione, narrativa e manipolazione estetica, e fin dove, invece, costituisce un inedito humus di ricerca pura, capace di sfruttare l’integrazione →
ICC Intercommunication Center – ISBN 4757170289
Se la percezione della natura nella storia è stata decisamente condizionata di volta in volta dallo stato dell’arte delle tecnologie di produzione e di comunicazione (com’è evidente dalle →
book – Verlag Hochschule ür Gestaltung Offenbach – ISBN 3921997410
La deperibilità delle informazioni elettroniche è uno dei temi più delicati dell’era digitale. I nuovi media sono legati a doppio filo alla disponibilità di hardware →
book + cd-rom – Christoph Merian Verlag – ISBN 3856162380
Dopo oltre una decade di pratiche artistiche legate ai nuovi media, il mondo dell’arte digitale e mediatica è ancora confinato nei suoi spazi, e non →
