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.
– Sabato a Prato, al Siddharta club
.Sigue Sigue Sputnik (nella foto)
– Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.J Majik – Metalheadz Night (jungle UK dj set)
– Sabato a Roma, al →
Leonardo Chiariglione ha annunciato che lascerà entro tre mesi la carica di direttore esecutivo dell’SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), l’organizzazione delle major del disco e del cinema costituita per creare uno standard di protezione dei contenuti digitali. →
Anche il gruppo di electro-industrial Rammstein ha deciso di pruomoversi con materiale in anteprima sul web. Il nuovo video ‘Sneak Preview’ è visibile da oggi sul sito ufficiale, ma accessibile solo ai fan abbonati alla newsletter ufficiale, →
Comincia oggi il tour dei Le Hammond Inferno, autori dell’ultimo ‘My First Political Dance Album’. Oggi a Milano ai Magazzini Generali, domani a Torino al Fabrik, il 26 a Imola al Cap Creus e infine sabato 27 →
L’università della California di Berkeley sta lavorando ad OceanStore, un file system network-free fatto di 10 miliardi di computer con 100 miliardi di terabyte di dati. Finanziato da IBM, EMC e dall’agenzia della Ricerca per la Difesa →
All’ultima Future of Music Conference, di fronte alle obiezioni che qualsiasi tecnica di protezione di dati digitali dev’essere illustrata pubblicamente perchè si possa esser certi che non leda i diritti fondamentali dell’utente, Joseph Winograd della Verance non →
Una collaborazione fra ZapMedia e Harmon Kardon sta per produrre un apparecchio capace di incamerare 10.000 brani in mp3 o wma. L’Harmon Kardon DMC 100 Digital Media Center, infatti è dotato di un hard disk di 30 →
Un nuovo sistema di protezione dei contenuti musicali in formato digitale è stato annunciato da IBM. Secondo le specifiche il sistema permetterebbe la libera trasmissione dei brani ma, di contro, un ascolto limitato (30 secondi o nulla →
Più di 2900 tracce protette dal diritto d’autore di artisti quali Dave Matthews Band, Etta James, o le TLC, sono disponibili online sul sito della BMG, fidando sul possibile boom entro l’anno di vendite di player per →
– Venerdí a Roma al Brancaleone/Agatha (nell’immagine)
.Digital (UK) + Royalize
– Venerdí a Bologna al Link
.Zona Dopa (rap + aereosol art)
– Sabato a Bologna al Link
.Rephresh.it + Luke →
