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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12.12.01 SafeWeb, HushMail+PGP.
– SafeWeb sta valutando l’ipotesi di reinvestire nei suoi prodotti di anonimato, dopo le migliaia di telefonate e richieste che ha ricevuto da quando →
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11.12.01 Goner, Information Guerrilla.
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– Arrestati venerdì i quattro teenager israeliani sospettati della creazione del virus Goner. Avrebbero confessato di aver creato il worm, che →
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10.12.01 Hack di Windows per la privacy.
Una maniera efficace di prevenire l’invio di nostri dati personali ad altri siti web è quello di far scrivere in →
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07.12.01 Farsi un giro nella backbone di World.com.
Adrian Lamo (nella foto) è un hacker nel senso più squisito del termine. La sua attività consiste nel provare →
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06.12.01 Electrohippie in protesta.
Il collettivo inglese degli Electrohippie sta proseguendo nelle sue dimostrazioni online quotidiane in alcuni giorni strategici come quello odierno, contro il locale Anti-Terrorism, →
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05.12.01 Guerre Stellari in telnet.
Non dev’essere stata un’impresa semplice, ma alla fine Snore il titolare di Asciimation ha convertito 13.935 frame del film Star Wars (Guerre →
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04.12.01 Cancellata la lista Cypherpunks.
In una delle prime prolifiche unioni di scienza e impegno sociale, la mailing list Cypherpunks era riuscita ad unire politica radicale e →
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03.12.01 A scuola di hacking.
Nell’11mo arrondissement di Parigi è sorta la ‘Zi Hackademy‘, ribattezzata dai media ufficiali ‘la prima scuola di hacking’. Si tratta in realtà →
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30.11.01 Linux Day.
Domani si tiene in tutt’Italia il Linux Day 2001, promosso dall’ILS (Italian Linux Society), prima giornata nazionale di Linux e del software libero. Scopo →
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29.11.01 CPA sgomberato.
Ieri pomeriggio è stato sgomberato il centro sociale CPA di Firenze. Dopo mesi e mesi di minacce è stato messo in atto lo sfratto →
