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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06.12.01 Sonic Acts.
Per tre giorni al Paradiso, storico teatro/locale di Amsterdam si tiene ‘Sonic Acts 01‘, ottava edizione del prestigioso festival di ricerca elettronica e visiva. →
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05.12.01 Lanciato RealOne-MusicNet.
Il primo dei tanto annunciati servizi di distribuzione a pagamento di tracce musicali online è stato lanciato ieri. Si tratta di RealOne, il nuovo →
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04.12.01 Degradazione digitale.
Microsuoni, il distributore italiano di musica elettronica sperimentale, ha inaugurato sul suo sito ‘Degradazione digitale¡‘, un primo progetto formato dalle tracce liberamente scaricabili di →
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03.12.01 Kazaa, George Harrison.
– Dopo la sentenza di una corte di Amsterdam, i titolari del software p2p Kazaa (uno dei più accreditati successori di Napster) hanno →
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30.11.01 SMDI, segreto di pulcinella.
Oltre alla sconfitta di 2600, sito + rivista, che avevano difeso la libera diffusione del software DeCSS attraverso link su web, si →
– Venerdì a Roma, al Brancaleone
.Maffia Sound System, Agatha Crew, Alioscia – Giradischi contro la guerra .i
– Venerdì a Roma, al Bluecheese
.Santos, mantra vibes .uk
– Sabato su Weekendance, RaiRadioDue, →
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29.11.01 Musica e danza interconnessi (1).
Tomie Hahn, un’etnomusicologa della Tufts University ha sviluppato indieme a Curtis Bahn, ricercatore del Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, un’interfaccia per sincronizzare coreografie →
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28.11.01 Musica col monitor.
‘Tempest for Eliza‘ è senza ombra di dubbio uno dei migliori hack di quest’anno. Si tratta di un programma di free software, sotto →
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27.11.01 Mercato della musica in rete nel 2005.
Secondo uno studio dell’IDC, il mercato della musica online dovrebbe raggiungere un volume d’affari di 1,6 miliardi di dollari →
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26.11.01 Accordo fra Peter Gabriel e Tiscali.
La OD2, società che fa capo a Peter Gabriel, di distribuzione online di tracce musicali, ha raggiunto un accordo in →
