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.
Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500203768
A che serve un libro sulla net art? Pochi argomenti sono infatti così impalpabili e controversi come la net.art, dove l’intervento artistico mediale attraversa gli intricati cavi della rete, →
Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674015436
La prospettiva degli hacker come classe sociale è indubbiamente affascinante. Pensare, infatti, alla collettività mondiale che ha come comune denominatore il pragmatismo nel manipolare le pratiche tecnologiche e sociali →
O’Reilly, ISBN 0596007329
Lo spam è uno di quei fenomeni peculiari della rete che sfruttandone le sue tremende tecniche di trasmissione ha finito per coinvolgere attivamente (volenti o nolenti) la stragrande maggiornaza dei suoi →
Digital Aesthetics Research Center, University of Aarhus, ISBN 87988444040
La pervasiva presenza del software in tutto ciò che utilizziamo quotidianamente, non ha implicato la diffusione altrettanto capillare di una cultura del software, allargata ed evoluta. →
O’Reilly, ISBN 0596007337
L’evoluzione del giornalismo, dopo il salutare ciclone della rete che ha sconvolto produzione e fruizione negli ultimi dieci anni, sembra essere arrivato ad un punto critico. Da un parte grandi conglomerati →
Edition Camera Austria, ISBN 3900508518
Il processo di ‘astrazione’, ossia dell’approccio opposto ad una descrizione figurativa dei concetti, rappresentandoli attraverso forme lineari e opportuni accostamenti cromatici, ha trovato nelle tecnologie digitali una naturale sponda, per la →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262033127
L’elemento ‘magico’ del cinema, ossia l’immagine fissa che d’un tratto si ‘anima’, come descritto nei reportage delle prime proiezioni dei Lumiere, permane ancora oggi, nelle sale, nei monitor, nell’affitto di cassette →
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, ISBN 3936711305
Chi ha conosciuto Cornelia Sollfrank grazie all’ultima release del suo celebre net.art generator, ha visto solo la sfavillante punta di un iceberg. L’artista, hacker e cyberfemminista ha →
Shake Edizioni Underground, ISBN 8888865098
Nell’archeologia degli immaginari elettronici sicuramente i Kraftwerk occupano un posto di tutto rilievo: è questo, sicuramente, al di là dello scoop pruriginoso destato da una biografia controversa e poco benevola nei →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262232324
La fruizione in ‘prima persona’ (first person) lega la letteratura tradizionale e i videogame caratterizzati dallo stringente punto di vista dell’utente. Ma fondamentali sono le differenze fra i due →
