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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06.06.01 Sequestrato Eretico.com.
Ieri mattina quattro poliziotti armati della polizia postale di Foggia hanno perquisito la casa di Latina di Beatopio, pseudonimo del webmaster di Eretico.com, sito →
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31.05.01 Legge editoria: 50.000 firme.
La petizione di Punto Informatico contro la nuova legge sull’editoria ha raggiunto il traguardo delle 50.000 firme. Fra poche settimane sarà consegnata →
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25.05.01 Legge editoria: protesta via mail.
L’ultima protesta contro l’iniqua legge sull’editoria è organizzata dal sito Utenti.org, che sta per mettere a disposizione una pagina per inviare →
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24.05.01 Seminario usabilità a Roma.
Stasera alle 21:00 al Forte Prenestino di Roma, decimo degli incontri di Jet Net, dal titolo ‘Accessibilità e Usabilità dei siti web’, →
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17.05.01 Robert J. Chassell a Milano.
Oggi a Milano, al Palazzo delle Stelline, nell’ambito di Linux@work, conferenza sull’uso professionale di Linux, sarà ospitato un intervento di Robert →
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14.05.01 Crash possibili di router Cisco.
La Cisco, maggior produttrice mondiale di router, ha pubblicamente ammesso un possibile problema col BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), il quale, se →
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10.05.01 Copyright & conflitti.
Oggi a Torino, a Palazzo Nuovo, seminario dal titolo ‘Mercato della vita, mercato delle idee, copyright e conflitti’, con Carlo Formenti (nella foto), →
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07.05.01 Freenet Italia.
Dopo l’annuncio della mailing-list poco tempo fa (vedi Freenet: lista e primo nodo italiano), prosegue l’attività del primo nodo italiano di Freenet, che per →
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03.05.01 Legge editoria: Abruzzo e D’Alema.
Mentre D’Alema (nella foto) in un’intervista a DVDSat.it ribadisce la discriminante (secondo lui) della famigerata legge sulla stampa (ossia se il →
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27.04.01 Legge editoria: riscontri internazionali.
La nuova legge sulla stampa online che riprende i regolamenti per la carta stampata del 1948 continua a suscitare scalpore. In palese →
