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.
“Vergognoso”, è il giudizio del giudice Marilyn Hall Patel sull’attuale stato di Napster. L’avvertimento è ancora più esplicito: “Se non si riesce a venire a capo dei filtri, forse è il caso di chiudere il sistema.” Secondo →
Lo Universal Music Group ha annunciato di voler comprare per 23 milioni di dollari la Emusic, togliendo un altro ‘player’ dalla scena della musica online, e facendo rientrare il suo cospicuo catalogo di etichette e artisti indipendenti →
Oggi all’ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts di Londra), per la serie di incontri ‘Cybersalon’, conferenza di Jacques Attali (autore di ‘Noise’) sul tema ‘the new aesthetics and political economy of interactive music’. In serata live di Matt →
L’edizione 2001 della berlinese Love Parade, prevista per il 14 luglio probabilmente salterà, anche grazie ad una contro-manifestazione autorizzata ad un comitato di protesta prima della richiesta degli organizzatori della parata. La data resta confermata, ma mentre →
Dalla settimana scorsa le grinfie della RIAA sono arrivate anche su iMesh, l’alternativa israeliana a Napster. Un avviso ha informato gli utenti che l’applicazione di una serie di filtri avrebbe reso impossibile il download di determinati brani, →
Universal Music Group e Sony Music Entertainment hanno stretto un accordo con Yahoo per affidarle la distribuzione dei loro titoli non appena decollato il progetto Duet (vedi Duet, media a pagamento) previsto per la fine dell’estate. Nel →
– Venerdì su Weekendance (Radio 2 alle 23:00)
.Avalanches (breakbeat, tech-house)
– Sabato a Roma, al Bluecheese
.Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy) dj set UK – Sabato a Reggio Emilia, al Maffia
.The Boutique →
Dopo la spettacolare audizione al Senato degli U.S.A., come in un copione di un film hollywoodiano, i contendenti placano le arringhe e attendono le prossime mosse istituzionali. Nel frattempo le analisi costanti di Webnoize parlano sì di →
Stasera, come ogni giovedì. all’HMA (Hiroshima Mon Amour) di Torino, ‘Soundscape’, cinque ore di elektro, techno e house mixata e suonata dai General Electrik con i video di Alessandro Amaducci. In ascolto il giorno dopo (venerdì) su →
Da oggi a sabato presso il LInk, a Bologna, la sesta edizione di Distorsonie, Festival di musica dance elettronica derivativa, alla sua sesta edizione in contemporanea alla VJ Convention 3.0, contest nazionale del vijng. Fra live e →
