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.
I combines, da Duchamp a Raushenberg, sono l’espressione artistica cui l’arte digitale, sonora o visiva, si è rivolta sin dalle origini. Ma la parola composizione può avere diverse accezioni: è →
Alan Turing, lo scienziato inglese inventore della prima macchina in grado di elaborare le istruzioni di un linguaggio di programmazione (il primo prototipo di un computer), non avrebbe mai immaginato che la sua →
Non c’è più bisogno di andare a Roma e gettare la monetina nella fontana di Trevi perché si avverino i nostri desideri. Ora, con l’IDM, Instant Drawing Machine di Oliver Halsman Rosenberg and Clint →
book – No Starch Press, ISBN 1593270461
Il senso comune per i problemi di sicurezza informatica impone l’individuazione di chi attacca da parte di chi difende, intendendo l’attacco come una verticale e proditoria →
L’interfaccia software del sequencing è di fatto la sintassi culturale con cui i suoni vengono composti, e a partire dalle operazioni basilari effettuate (come il drag and drop dei suoni per la messa →
Come una Betty Love digitale Jillian Mcdonald è protagonista di un amore mediatico intitolato ‘Me and Billy Bob‘. Ma se l’eroina in celluloide di LaBute è vittima di uno shock, incapace di distinguere tra realtà →
L’utilizzo dei dati per fini puramente estetici, ne annulla i significati, riducendo i contenuti ad un informe ammasso di materia digitale, trattato come materia prima composta da particelle pressoché indistinte, che assumono valore solo nel loro →
L’elemento di disturbo, la trasmissione non andata a buon fine sono eventi naturali di un ecosistema che si tende ad occultare dietro le trombe della banda larga, ma che fa parte della rete come le →
Se il caos è elemento connaturato e necessario ai grandi sistemi come la rete, esso è allo stesso tempo il nemico numero uno contro cui i software e le loro componenti lottano per promettere all’utente un’interazione →
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 →
