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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06.06.01 Napster: accordo con le major.
Dopo mesi di annunci, cause e trattative Napster ha stretto un accordo con Warner Music ed EMI per la licenza di →
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05.06.01 Britney Spears: videogame e fisica.
Per quanto non sia stata fissata ancora la data d’uscita, un nuovo videogame per Playstation 2, con Britney Spears come protagonista →
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05.06.01 Cd di marca.
La Rock River Communications del Vermont insieme a Websound sta creando compilation di musica usata negli spot. La novità è che stavolta le →
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05.06.01 Broadcast da record.
Glen Jones, un dj della stazione radio americana WFMU ? entrato nel Guinnes dei primati per la più lunga trasmissione continua condotta da →
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04.06.01 Napster: radio show, myplay e altre alleanze.
Sul presunto cadavere di Napster calano gli avvoltoi: mentre Hank Barry (nella foto) ha dichiarato alla Reuters che “spende →
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04.06.01 Remixers premiati.
EMusic.com, Cleopatra Pictures e ACIDplanet.com hanno presentato i vincitori della gara di remix della colonna sonora di ‘Better Living Through Circuitry’, film sulla scena →
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31.05.01 Webcasting: Arpa Elettrica e Two Lone Swordsmen.
Due webcasting previsti oggi. Da New York Zeena Parkins e Janene Higgins, presentano (alle 02:30 di stanotte, ora italiana) →
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30.05.01 Comuna, nuovo software P2P.
Un nuovo client per lo scambio peer-to-peer, concorrente all’agonizzante Napster è spuntato all’improvviso in Brasile. Chiamato Comuna (da comunismo con tanto di →
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30.05.01 Mutek.
Comincia oggi a Montreal, in Canada, Mutek, music sound and new technologies, che in cinque serate esibiranno molti artisti legati alla ricerca elettronica, minimale e →
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29.05.01 DJ I Robot.
DJ I Robot è costituito da un PC, diversi micro controllori, e un sistema di controllo di movimento avanzato che automaticamente mixa, scratcha, →
