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.
Indossare un casco integrale di metallo riflettente rimanda immediatamente all’idea di distacco totale dalla realtà circostante. “The decelerator” progettato dall’artista tedesco Lorenz Potthast è un casco siffatto, che tuttavia non trasporta in →
Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, French
In quale formato una monografia può essere elaborata al giorno d’oggi? È una questione aperta che s’interroga su due domini →
Esplorare lo spazio urbano a naso: l’opera “Blind Smell Stick” di Peter de Cupere ci invita a fare questa esperienza per riscoprire gli spazi che normalmente percorriamo. L’oggetto →
DVD – La Huit / Potemkine – 2012, French, English
Virtuoso Listening è un film che si rivela essere un omaggio a uno dei pionieri della musica elettronica femminile: Eliane Radigue. Ex →
Luke Evans e Josh Lake hanno creato intriganti opere basate su processi fotografici trasformando i loro corpi in “telecamere”. Entrambi hanno ingerito pellicola fotografica 35 mm per diapositive che ha permesso alle naturali funzioni corporee di fare il resto →
Jonathon Keats, amministratore delegato di The Electrochemical Currency Exchange Company
, ha trovato facilmente il suo spazio nella rivista ‘Wired’, nel foyer del Rockefeller Building di New York e più →
Il dibattito attorno al valore della proprietà intellettuale è stato condotto spesso sui soliti argomenti da quando il file sharing è venuto in primo piano alla fine degli anni ’90. Mentre da una parte l’industria →
Ashgate, ISBN: 9780754675761, 232 pages, 2009, English
Il concetto di “spazio della performance” è stato definitivamente messo in discussione con l’uso delle tecnologie multimediali, moltiplicandone le possibili dimensioni e i confini. Ancora →
Mentre i vari movimenti di Occupy del pianeta stanno conducendo realizzando eventi nelle strade e di fronte alle istituzioni politiche e finanziarie, nella Repubblica Ceca i siti preferiti per l’attivismo si sono →
