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.
Nifca Publication, ISBN 951-8955-74-3
La definizione di ‘software art’ è ancora lontana dall’entrare nell’Oxford Dictionary, ma a delinearne sempre più le caratteristiche e il background culturale è il festival Read_me, la cui edizione 2.3 è stata →
Interessante collezione di flyer, a testimonianza di una storia poco ufficiale della Barcelona elettronica (dai primi anni novanta ad oggi), che ha visto la nascita e l’evolversi di una scena autoctona legata alla club culture ed →
V2_/NAI Publishers, ISBN 90-5662-310-9
Il flusso dei dati e il loro incerto ciclo vitale sono sempre più al centro delle analisi dei teorici dei nuovi media, che vedono in questo ecosistema digitale una sorta di brodo →
Que, ISBN 0-7897-2410-3
Facendo seguito ad una prima profetica edizione del 1989, Information Anxiety 2 è il consolidamenteo di un’analisi a trecentosessanta gradi delle modalità di trasmissione e catalogazione dell’informazione che tenta di fornire bussole e →
MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-23227-8
Tracciare all’indietro la storia dei nuovi media è un compito tanto indispensabile quanto impegnativo per la mole di ricerca imposta e la difficile cernita nella selezione. The New Media Reader si assume →
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Nell’abnorme quantità di libri che si sforzano di interpretare le regole non scritte della comunicazione online, questo testo sembra emergere per qualità di ricerca empirica e per le radici storiche che ne fanno da →
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La storicizzazione della net.art è già cominciata e i suoi capitoli più celebri e importanti cominciano ad essere oggetto di fresche pubblicazioni. La Toywar del 1999-2000 condotta dal collettivo di artisti etoy contro il →
book – RIXC – ISBN 9984953807
L’annuale uscita di Acoustic Space, rivista più simile ad un vero e proprio libro che ad un magazine, consiste stavolta in una poderosa raccolta di saggi sulle architetture →
artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: Virtual Reality Handbook
label: Minus Habens Records
code: MHCD014
format: Book of 40 pages + mCD
feat.: CLOCK DVA, IT.
notes: Virtual Reality, like all the present →
