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.
A Londra, presso la galleria Furniture Works, si è inaugurata Sequences
, mostra che celebra l’arte e la storia della cronofotografia. Sviluppatasi alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo principalmente grazie al contributo di étienne-Jules Marey ed →
book – NTT Publishing Co. – ISBN 4757170270
Riassumere quindici anni di (new) media art non è un compito semplice, né per la concezione di una mostra, néonnicomprensive per la →
book – Harvard University Press – ISBN 0674008898
Anche se negli ultimi anni si sta assistendo ad una sorta di mitologia degli strumenti analogici, in quanto soglia verso le radicali trasformazioni digitali, si può pensare →
book – Autonomedia – ISBN 1570271399
‘Behind the Blip’ va finalmente a colmare la sempre più impellente necessità di un’analisi critica e pragmatica di quella complessa e sfuggevole entità chiamata ‘software’. La presenza costante, →
book – The Banff Centre Press – ISBN 092015994X
Un lungo percorso personale nella mutazione medatica dalla fine degli anni settanta fino alla soglia del nuovo millennio, che descrive una visionarietà naturale, figlia di →
L’aspetto dell’hardware ha una componente fortemente simbolica nella rappresentazione dei suoi contenuti, e i costruttori di macchine e riproduttori sonori l’hanno capito da tempo. Reinterpretando quest’assioma gli artisti Mark Argo e Ahmi Wolf hanno creato Bass-Station, →
book – Actar – ISBN 0789724103
Interessante collezione di flyer, a testimonianza di una storia poco ufficiale della Barcelona elettronica (dai primi anni novanta ad oggi), che ha visto la nascita e l’evolversi di una →
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 →
Appena conclusasi alla Eyebeam Gallery di New York ArtBots 2003, seconda edizione della fortunata mostra di robot creativi, già svoltasi l’anno scorso al Pratt Institute di Brooklyn (New York). Quest’anno i progetti selezionati dai curatori →
I peggiori attacchi attraverso le reti informatiche sono quelli che hanno conseguenze sulla realtà quotidiana, innescando meccanismi estremi di diffusione dell’informazione. Sull’argomento Aviel D. Rubin, insieme ai colleghi Simon Byers e David Kormann hannopubblicato una ricerca →
