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.
book – Actar – ISBN 8495951134
Nella sua doppia veste di ‘genere’ e ‘tool’, la musica elettronica ha pervaso la cultura musicale fino alle radici negli ultimi quindici anni. Realizzando l’aspirazione di lavorare ‘direttamente’ →
The National Publishing House “Yantarny Skaz”, ISBN 5740608537
Nel costruirsi di una sua propria autonomia la Bio Art (termine definito da Jens Hauser, curatore della seminale mostra ‘L’Art Biotech’ come un “obbrobrio etimologico”) sta →
Diabasis, ISBN 8881032481
Costruire gli strumenti legali con cui difendere un’idea diversa di diritto d’autore è una delle più alte priorità per rendere tangibili e disponibili i cambiamenti tecnologici elaborati negli ultimi anni. Una →
, ISBN 3775716599
L’ibrido come simbolo del cambiamento evolutivo è stato assunto come tema portante di Ars Electronica 2005, suddiviso nelle sezioni ‘cultures’, ‘politics’, ‘ecologies’ e ‘creatures’. L’ibridizzazione è un tema ricorrente in questi tempi, →
Jovis / Edition Bauhaus, ISBN 3936314918
Il passaggio nei grandi centri urbani ad un’economia orientata ai servizi è una tendenza registrata già dagli anni settanta, ma che è esplosa via via fino all’odierna città →
Continuum, ISBN 0826416152
La genealogia della musica contemporanea si snoda attraverso molti nodi essenziali distanti nel tempo e negli ambiti culturali. Solo ora, nel tempo dell’informazione in forma di network, si tracciano le connessioni →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262033283
Il ‘media activism’ tradotto in italiano come ‘mediattivismo’ è nato ben prima delle reti telematiche e ha manipolato i media, elettrici prima ed elettronici poi, con →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262072602
Il concetto di ‘Open Source’, per quanto spesso reso ambiguo e cannibalizzato dalla stessa industria di cui mina i selvaggi principi di sfruttamento, è uno dei →
Springer Verlag, ISBN 3211238719.
Il progetto Media Art Net si colloca in un momento in cui i tentativi di storicizzazione della media art fioccano. Diversi enti e case editrici stanno facendo tangibili sforzi per →
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 principali →
