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.
Il bastard pop, o mesh-up o pop plagiarista che dir si voglia, ossia l’arte di remixare liberamente più brani celeberrimi coperti da copyright, conta sempre più adepti e hobbisti che neapplicano le →
La ‘giustizia distributiva’ è una delle teorie filosofiche e morali che, detto in soldoni, concretizza su scala sociale ed economica un vecchio assioma marxista, ossia ‘a ciascuno secondo i suoi bisogni, da ciascuno secondo le sue possibilità’, →
[R]-[R]-[F] Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting ? un festival on line a pi? versioni (questa ? la 1.0), frutto dell’attivitˆ coordinata di artisti e curatori internazionali. RRF, “Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity”, ha la particolaritˆ di →
Creato dagli sviluppatori di Kazaa, Skype è un nuovo software, grautito e in beta release, che consente di utilizzare le reti di scambio paritario peer-to-peer per comunicazioni telefoniche. Alcune differenze basilari rendono questo programma diverso dalle attuali →
Mondo 2000
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31.07.03 Addio St. Jude (ex Mondo 2000).
Mondo 2000 è stata la rivista che ha avuto l’innegabile pregio di scoperchiare il vaso →
Per conoscere i dettagli del design delle carceri, delle strategie di riabilitazione dei detenuti, delle modalità più proficue per attivare la costruzione e l’organizzazione delle prigioni, è nata l’European Corrections Corporation. Una società privata per pianificare prigioni →
Con un’introduzione di Vint Cerf, storico sviluppatore del protocollo TCP/IP da sempre sensibile alla libertà d’espressione in rete, The Internet Under Surveillance, obstacles to the free flow of information online è un importate report aggiornato al 2003 →
La ricerca di punti di collegamento wi-fi, oltre ad aver attivato lo sport urbano del war-chalking, dove gli utenti segnalano i nodi aperti o semi aperti nelle prossimità dei quali è possibile collegarsi alla rete, ha scatenato →
Presentato all’Hackmeeting 2003, Domain Name Anarchy è un progetto di democratizzazione del domain name system, il sistema di conversione dei nomi a dominio in indirizzi IP che sovrintende una parte indispensabile del funzionamento della rete. Attualmente DNA →
