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.
Mentre a Roma sono stati assolti degli extracomunitari colti in flagrante mentre vendevano cd copiati illegalmente, a causa dell’indigenza nella quale versano, la Bertelsmann ha annunciato le nuove misure protettive che intende integrare nei file scambiati su →
DJ Maseo dei De La Soul ha messo all’asta su Ebay, un’ora del suo tempo, sfruttabile come lezione personale di djing. “È un po’ come fare il booking di me stesso”, ha detto, fissando la base di →
Il Personal Active Radio/Audio Terminal (PARAT) è una sorta di cuffia + microfono che ‘filtrano’ efficacemente alcune forme d’onda, lasciandone passare altre. Sviluppato dai laboratori norvegesi Sintef è stato messo a punto per permettere ai soldati in →
In Belgio fra dicembre e gennaio, sono state perquisite tre abitazioni con sospetti di pirateria musicale. Marcel Heymans, direttore generale della locale associazione degli industriali musicali, ha denunciato altre quattro persone, sulla base di un software di →
– Venerdì a Roma, al Palazzo della Civilta’ Italiana
.Metamorfosi, spettacolo di Roberto Paci Dalò (nella foto)
– Venerdì a Milano, a La Casa 139
.Cat Food, breakbeat-hip-hop
– Sabato a Reggio Emilia, →
Secondo alcuni esperti legali, dopo la sentenza di ieri potrebbe essere stabilita una mega multa contro Napster, simile a quella inflitta tempo fa a mp3.com. Si ipotizzano cifre come 100.000 dollari di risarcimento per ogni cd copiato, →
‘Duo-aria Digisette’ è il termine coniato per quest’apparecchio, un player mp3 dalla foggia di una normale cassetta stereo. Oltre ad essere un player portatile, ha la caratteristica di far ascoltare i brani scaricati da un PC, attraverso →
Bruce Springsteen non potrà ottenere il dominio brucespringsteen.com, già assegnato a Jeff Burgar e al suo Bruce Springsteen Club. Il famigerato World Intellectual Property Organization ha stabilito che Burgar non ha nè, registrato o usato il dominio →
La federazione tedesca degli industriali del disco, ha elaborato un metodo per spiare e bloccare i download liberi di musica in rete, individuano i siti di supporto e bloccandone l’accesso dagli ISP nazionali. Il portavoce Hartmut Spiesecke →
Un’altra iniziativa di Prince a sfornare nuovi brani in rete tramite meccanismi controllati. Inediti e jam varie registrate ai mitici Paisley Park Studios si possono ottenere tramite il suo club online NPG (New Power Generation) Music Club. →
