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.
La diffusione della musica in forma di file è aumentata esponenzialmente nel corso del tempo, creando un fenomeno sociale che si è materializzato nei player hardware e software. Se i primi costituiscono una drastica →
book – Autonomedia – ISBN 1570271704
La produzione immateriale non ha solo risvolti squisitamente politici (precariato, mobilità, tempo reale…), o estetici (manipolabilità, codifica, delocalizzazione…). Essa ha in →
I sistemi di sicurezza informatica hanno assunto un’importanza sempre maggiore, man mano che i computer hanno cominciato a calcolare dati sempre più sensibili per le nostre vite. Ma i metodi di protezione dei dati stessi, legati →
Il ‘brand’, ossia l’identità aziendale simbolizzata da marchio e logo sono il capitale visivo delle multinazionali e la loro parsimoniosa distribuzione nella nostra scansione visiva rappresenta una precisa e oculata strategia. ReTag progetto ospitato sui server →
artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
title: Internet.Underground.Guide
label: Minus Habens Records
code: MHCD028
format: Book of 80 pages + mCD
feat.: KLÄNGE
notes: A book of 80 pages containing consistent information and addresses displayed →
by Alessandro Ludovico.
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0. Intro
First of all I want to say thanks all the members of the selection committee of HWMK and Read.me festival for having awarded my talk. I want to especially thanks them because for the →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262122790
La dimensione ‘pubblica’ (negli spazi comuni, urbani e in rete) è il luogo dove si esprimono le mediazioni sociali e i rapporti di potere. →
Il disturbo associato ad un ineluttabile rumore (il lavandino che gocciola, ad esempio) ha una continua ripercussione sulla nostra psiche, sia pur travalicando la nostra coscienza costante. L’esperienza dell’artista Alexander →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262195186
L’evoluzione del corpo, da atavica interfaccia col mondo esterno ad apparato multisensoriale ultrastimolato, è stata dai primissimi anni novanta un ampio terreno di ricerca. →
Il sovraccarico sensoriale di cui soffriamo quando ci muoviamo negli spazi pubblici trae origine dall’eccessivo numero d’informazioni (soprattutto a carattere pubblicitario) che ci ritroviamo davanti. Negli spazi pubblicitari, in particolare, l’accostamento di parole eimmagini →
