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.
Come preannunciato un po’ di tempo fa (vedi Emusic spia Napster) Emusic si è messa a spiare gli utenti di Napster tramite il suo software proprietario. Ha già segnalato 75.000 file rappresentanti 35.000 brani protetti dal diritto →
Secondo Webnoize un altro 25 per cento degli utenti ha abbandonato Napster durante l’ultima settimana, e la causa principale sembra essere, con pochi dubbi ormai, la messa in altro dei filtri nei confronti delle canzoni elencate dalla →
Dopo la ferale notizia della chiusura dell’Internet Underground Music Archive, precursore dal 1993 della promozione di band non ancora sotto contratto attraverso file musicali (vedi IUMA chiude), arriva l’acquisizione da parte di Vitaminic, firmata negli scorsi giorni, →
Il sito neozelandese 7amnews.com ha pubblicato le immagini di Media Tracker, il terribile software sviluppato dalla International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Media Tracker rileva una lista di brani, il network in cui sono condivise (Napster, →
Comincia oggi a Nantes, in Francia, ‘Le Lieu Unique‘ un festival che fino a domenica vedrà esibirsi esponenti della scena elettronica, groove minimal ed electro-pop, fra cui Bernd Friedmann & Jaki Liebezeit, Chicks on Speed, Coil, DMX →
– Venerdì a Roma, al Brancaleone
.Goldie (nella foto) dj set (d’n’b)
– Venerdì a Bologna, al Link
.Anti Pop Consortium hip-hop (USA)
– Venerdì a Bisceglie (Bari), al Tam Tam
.Miky →
Come due fratellini litigiosi con la mamma, Napster ed RIAA si lamentano nei confronti del giudice per i rispettivi comportamenti. Napster ad oggi ha bloccato 228.569 files, ma dice che la RIAA gli ha fornito dati sconclusionati, →
Mentre c’è chi si arrovella per bypassare i sistemi di Napster, o rendere più potente ed efficiente la rete di Gnutella, La Audio Mill ha rilasciato la beta version di BitBop, un software che attua un meccanismo →
La soluzione statunitense: Wake Yoo è una sveglia dotata di uno spartano sistema di campionamento che permette di personalizzare la suoneria semplicemente accostando l’apparecchio in stato di registrazione alla fonte sonora che si vorrà riascoltare al succesivo →
La soluzione giapponese. Sound Capture è un’elegante sveglia prodotta dalla Idea International Co., Ltd., e permette di personalizzare la suoneria tramite file .wav o .mp3. Il tutto avviene con un collegamento diretto al PC tramite la porta →
