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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28.09.01 In defense of freedom.
Un manifesto per la difesa delle libertà personali (In defense of freedom) in dieci punti è stato sottoscritto al National Press Club →
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27.09.01 Telematica Sociale vs. Digital Divide.
Stasera alle 21:00 presso la Festa di Liberazione a Castel S.Angelo, a Roma, Nuovavia e Newbrainframes Project in collaborazione con Rete →
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26.09.01 Isteria anti-hacker.
Sull’onda lunga del terrore, il Dipartimento di Giustizia degli Stati Uniti sta premendo sul Congresso affinchè approvi in tempi brevi l’Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), una →
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20.09.01 Hackmeeting in Spagna.
Comincia oggi l’hackmeeting di Leioa, nei pressi di Bilbao, in Spagna. Seminari su ipchains, firewalling, virus, PGP/GNUPG e discussioni aperte su come riciclare →
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18.09.01 Hacking in TV: denunciati.
La HypoVereinsbank, una delle maggiori banche tedesche vuol fare causa alla ARD, una delle due reti televisive pubbliche, per ciò che è →
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18.09.01 Leggi d’emergenza negli USA.
Giovedì il Senato degli Stati Uniti ha approvato il ‘Combating Terrorism Act of 2001′ che prevede, fra gli altri provvedimenti, anche maggiori →
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18.09.01 Solidarietà all’hacklab 404.
Dopo l’incendio (si suppone doloso) del Centro Sociale Pinelli di Genova, metà dello SpinHacker404 HackLab è andato in fumo. I componenti del lab →
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17.09.01 Andy Mueller-Maguhn: non attaccare i flussi d’informazione.
Durante le riunioni preliminari per il prossimo ventesimo anniversario del Chaos Computer Club, Andy Mueller-Maguhn (nella foto), anche membro →
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14.09.01 U.S.A.: campionando la rete (3).
Ancora alcune notizie sull’impatto in rete della tragedia americana.
. La voce alta dei difensori dello libertà rischia ora di →
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13.09.01 New York: campionando la rete (2).
Ancora alcune notizie sull’impatto in rete della tragedia americana.
. L’FBI sta cercando di far installare il suo sistema →
