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.
Many festival emerged in the last decade, but only a bunch of them find their own way, focusing on some peculiar investigations during the years. Sonic Acts is undoubtedly one of them, →
book – University Of Minnesota Press – ISBN 9780816641192
I database sono collezioni di dati con un senso radicato al suo interno e una loro struttura pianificata che definisce le relazioni concettuali →
book – Imprensa Oficial do Estado de Satilde;o Paulo – ISBN: 9788560824007
Inaugurare un forum online significa dover gestire procedure completamente diverse da un forum nella realtà fisica: il tempo →
Book – OpenMute – ISBN 9780955479601
Lo spazio pubblico è un bene comune e comune e condivisa dev’essere la sua rappresentazione / interpretazione. Questo sembra essere l’ispirata regola base dell’iniziativa Depford.tv, unica →
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Il Centro De Arte y Creación Industrial Laboral di Gijón (nelle Asturie) produce (in collaborazione con la Fundación Telefónica) e ospita la mostra Emergentes, una panoramica sugli artisti dell’America Latina che si cimentano →
Le ’emozioni’ hanno storicamente tracciato il confine fra l’uomo e la macchina. Solo in un futuro remoto (quello della fantascienza, di solito) le macchine erano in grado di essere intrecciate alle emozioni. Ora, nella vita →
Secondo PierLuigi Capucci, curatore insieme a Franco Torriani dell’edizione italiana di Art Biotech di Jens Hauser, la relazione tra arte e vivente segue due percorsi distinti. Il primo, più antico, ha le radici nella →
Con il termine retorica generalmente si intende l’arte o tecnica di persuasione attraverso l’uso del linguaggio scritto, parlato o visivo. Tuttavia gli studi contemporanei di retorica includono uno spettro piu’ ampio di pratiche e →
L’installazione ‘Privileges’ di Diane Landry consiste principalmente nell’alterazione semantica dell’ oggetto di uso commune ‘libro’. Un dizionario viene infatti trasformato in un flip book per animare la metafora dei privilegi culturali. Il numero →
Fra i festival internazionali di arte e tecnologia, il Microwave di Hong Kong è stato uno dei primi in Asia, ma ancora non abbastanza riconosciuto sulla scena internazionale. La →
