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.
Il governo francese imporrà dal 22 gennaio ulteriori tasse sui CD vergini, sui DVD registrabili e sui player MP3, per recuperare una parte dei soldi persi nelle copie libere di materiale coperto dal diritto d’autore. Dopo le →
Il sistema di suono e di video THX della Lucasfilm, attraverso software e hardware ottimizzati sarà disponibile a breve sui computer Dell della serie 8100 e 4100 (con minimo 128Mb di ram), in base ad un accordo →
La Thomson and Coding Technologies insieme al Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (nella foto) hanno annunciato una nuova versione dello standard mp3, denominato mp3PRO, che dovrebbe dimezzare il sampling rate necessario per ottenere la stessa qualità. Per →
Il Neo Jukebox 2100/2200 è un nuovo player mp3 della Multi Technology Equipment che sfuma il confine fra un normale player e un PC. Include infatti un hard disk da 3.5 pollici fino a 20 Gb di →
Sessantasei persone sono state licenziate da Emusic dopo un conteggio che dovrebbe, in questo modo, far risparmiare all’azienda sedici milioni di dollari nel prossimo anno. Motivi addotti: calo della pubblicità online e pirateria. Listen.com, pure adottando le →
‘I Did It’ della Dave Matthews Band è il primo singolo pubblicato per una major, diffuso pubblicamente su Napster, col beneplacito della stessa etichetta (la BMG). L’ultima release di Napster, inoltre, supporta ora l’acquisto di titoli presso →
Nel corso del Future of Music Summit fra Governo USA e industrie, il senatore repubblicano Orrin G. Hatch si è apertamente schierato contro l’industria e a favore dei musicisti: “Non credo sia di nessun vantaggio per gli →
Sabato e domenica al museo d’arte contemporanea di Helsinki si tiene l’Helsinki Sound 2001 con un’attenzione particolare alla musica elettronica e all’audio art, con lavori realizzati basandosi sui suoni della cittá finlandese.
Anche la Microsoft (secondo ZDNet US) starebbe sviluppando il proprio sistema di sistrubuzione P2P controllato. Non certo per far circolare liberamente dati e saperi, ma anzi, da un lato per semplificare lo scambio di dati all’interno delle →
È in corso a Washington il The Future of Music Policy Summit, conferenza che tenta di mettere insieme artisti, politici e tecnici sulle prospettive economiche di sviluppo della musica online. Più di 750 i partecipanti e già →
