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.
‘Mp3 connector‘ è un piccolo connettore da 20 dollari provvisto di un cavo di 7 metri e mezzo per collegare nella maniera più semplice possibile il computer e l’impianto hi-fi. Permette di continuare ad ascoltare i suoni →
Dopo Metallica e Dr. Dre un altro famoso esponente del music business è entrato a far parte del partito anti-Napster, inteso, ovviamente, come modello di scambio. Si tratta di Neil Young che ha dichiarato durante l’ultimo tour →
Un altro client entra nell’arena dei successori di Napster per gli scambi peer-to-peer. Si chiama Swaptor, ed è liberamente scaricabile la beta V. 1.0 per Windows, che pone l’accento sui collegamenti diretti fra utenti e sulla formazione →
Accordo americano fra Vitaminic.com (recente filiale americana dell’azienda italiana) e Universal Music Group (UMG) per la distribuzione a pagamento di tracce. Il gruppo Universal detiene artisti come Blink 182, Marvin Gaye, Steely Dan, Luciano Pavarotti o Louis →
Myplay.com, attivo dal 1999, è un altro dei siti che hanno dovuto interagire con le carte bollate dell’industria discografica, ma che ora sembra aver guadagnato la loro fiducia. Ogni utente (il sito ne conta cinque milioni) dispone →
Da oggi fino a mercoledì 7 sarà possibile seguire a Bologna i seminari di Simon Frith, uno dei più auterevoli studiosi e critici di popular music, che tratterà di ‘Industrializzazione della musica, generi, critica e pubblico’, affrontando →
Bearshare è un nuovo client (freeware) per Gnutella dedicato ai sistemi Windows che promette di diventare il più popolare per semplicità e usabilità. Un’altro passo verso la definitiva alternativa a Napster?
Il nuovo Rio Volt, ultimo modello della serie Rio, primo mp3 player di massa, include per la prima volta un lettore di CD. I formati compatibili riguardano i cd audio e i cd-r che contengano sia file →
Alle 23:00 di oggi 2 febbraio si potrà seguire il live di Scanner, con un’intervista e la presentazione del suo nuovo progetto Scannerfunk in diretta dal Paradiso di Amsterdam attraverso i server di Fabchannel, in collaborazione con →
– Venerdì a Torino, al Supermarket
.Alessio Bertallot
– Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.Rennie Pilgrem & Micronauts dj set
– Sabato a Bologna, al Link
.Royalize dj set special guest →
