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.
L’International Telecommunication Union ha adottato uno standard mondiale per il broadcasting del suono digitale. Viene basato sulle stesse bande di frequenza, e Si deve considerare che ci sono potenziali 2,5 miliardi di radio ricevitori al mondo, di →
Un paio di ingegneri di Emusic.com sostengono di aver sviluppato un software che traccia le attivitá degli utenti Napster, cosa che i dirigenti di quest’ultima hanno sempre dichiarato come impossibile. Dopo sole tre settimane di lavoro, e →
Si inaugura oggi Diary by Recording il tour inglese di Scanner (vedi Neural 14) stavolta insieme a Tonne Will, ricercatore di connessioni fra immagini e suoni giá collaboratore di Pole e Springheel Jack. Il lavoro si propone →
Ozzy Osborne, Godsmack e Pantera hanno fatto causa alla MCY.com per aver trasmesso in una televisione pay-per-view uno speciale sull’Ozzyfest dalla qualitˆ destinata al web. In passato la MCY.com ha giá trasmesso webcast di Backstreet Boys, Paul →
Il primo ‘jukebox’ per Linux é stato realizzato dalla MusicMatch. La beta, versione 1.0, é stata sviluppata dalla software house, che ne produce anche le versioni per Win e Mac. Questo a causa delle ultime stime dell’utenza →
Otto tracce live degli Eagles, tratte dal box Selected Works 1972-1999, realizzato dalla Elektra, sono state cancellate dai rispettivi rivenditori su web, dove le avevano rese disponibili gratuitamente da scaricare. Questo, secondo l’etichetta, perché non si sarebbe →
La EMI ha stretto un accordo con l’americana Streamwaves, un provider musicale per abbonamenti, che funziona sul modello jukebox, e con le inglesi DX3 Ltd and On Demand Distribution per rafforzare la sua politica di distribuzione online. →
Secondo Sim Wong Hoo, presidente della Creative, il mercato di player mp3 sará presto roseo, con prospettive di decuplicare le vendite delle celeberrime schede audio Sound Blaster. In dieci anni il numero di Sound Blaster vendute é →
Con lo slogan di DOWNload a copy – upLOAD an idea Copydown si annuncia come l’iniziativa piú seria in Italia nel contrastare i tentativi di egemonia dei contenuti in atto dai grandi gruppi editoriali. Oltre alle giuste →
La Universal é stata l’ultima a ritirare la denuncia contro mp3.com per violazione di copyright. La richiesta di risarcimento totale é stata accordata in 53.4 milioni di dollari (molto meno dei 167.5 milioni di dollari decisi a →
