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.
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15.03.02 Aimster vicina alla bancarotta.
Un anno dopo aver citato in giudizio la RIAA, Johnny Deep, il padrone di Aimster, uno dei network più frequentati per lo →
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14.03.02 Oval in tour in Italia.
Markus Popp, in arte Oval, l’eclettico compositore tedesco che da qualche anno ha sposato ai brani ottenuti attraverso processi generativi, uno →
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13.03.02 Blubster.
Blubster è la comunità spagnola di scambio di mp3 attraverso un apposito network p2p. Dotato del suo proprio client, Blubster ottimizza il download dei file →
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12.03.02 Interi brani sul cellulare.
Secondo Ralph Simon, titolare della Yourmobile, azienda californiana che al momento si occupa di suonerie, presto si potranno trasmettere interi brani attraverso →
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11.03.02 Spartiti digitali.
Harry Connick Jr. è un cantante (melodico), ma sa anche suonare il piano e a volte recita come attore, oltre ad aver cantato ‘Over →
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07.03.02 New Italian Futurists.
Stasera (07/03) alla ‘291 Gallery’ di Londra (UK), si svolge il mini-festival ‘New Italian Futurists’ organizzato da Extrasensory.org con i gruppi italiani di →
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06.03.02 Anche la giapponese Avex prova a proteggere i cd.
Dopo le reazioni sempre più negative dei governi e dei consumatori occidentali, per non parlare dell’importante presa →
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05.03.02 Michael Greene: “Il virus del download musicale illegale”.
Nella cerimonia di assegnazione dei Grammy Awards, considerati un surrogato degli oscar della musica, Michael Greene, presidente della →
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04.03.02 Audio diretto.
Una delle direzioni della tecnologia audio più innovative è quella del ‘directed audio’, ossia di nuove tecnologie capaci di proiettare un ‘raggio sonoro’ direzionato, →
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27.02.02 Morpheus in pausa aspettando Gnutella + premi a Moog e Apple.
– Morpheus, il client per lo scambio paritario di files, da qualche giorno avverte i →
