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.
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415893107, 176 pages, 2011, English
Oltre ad essere la co-organizzatrice di quattro edizioni del mitico festival di software art READ.ME (ognuna delle quali è stata documentata in un catalogo di →
Cosa succede se digitalizziamo un oggetto fisico e poi lo riportiamo al suo stato iniziale, utilizzando tecnologie 3D? Il designer inglese Matthew Plummer-Fernandez con l’opera Glitch Reality II ha sperimentato un →
Il ‘ Quantum Parallelograph ‘, progettato da Patrick Stevenson Keating, è un bizzarro congegno bianco simile ad un apparecchio medico fatto per tradurre i nostri invisibili funzionamenti interni in linguaggi interpretabili dagli esperti →
“Sea and Spar between“, di Nick
Montfort e Stephanie Strickland, è un generatore di versi poetici ricreati dall’unione di parole ed espressioni provenienti da “Moby Dick” di Herman Melville e dalle poesie →
Il maestro del mashup Mark Gunderson, aka The Evolution Control Committee, nell’ultimo paio di decenni si è dedicato campo del plagio musicale. Uno dei suoi ultimi (tattici) prodotti (dopo tanti altri) si chiama →
In luoghi pubblici affollati caffè o ristoranti, una scatoletta di plastica attaccata ad una presa di corrente non viene notata da nessuno. Può trattarsi di un trasformatore o di un qualsiasi caricabatterie. Ma ci →
Se il tuo nome è “Kimichi and Chips”, ti definisci studio d’arte e design interdisciplinare e hai sede tra Londra e Seoul, creare un’opera d’arte sul tema della “Convergenza” dovrebbe essere una →
L’artista belga Jasper Rigole ha dedicato la propria ricerca ai concetti di autenticità, obiettività, falsificazione e al peculiare ruolo che essi assumono in relazione ai processi di storicizzazione e, più in generale, alla memoria, →
DVD, microcinema
, 2010
Questo film, uscito nel 1997, ha celebrato una delle donne più sottovalutate nella storia della tecnologia. Ada Byron King, contessa di Lovelace (qui interpretata da Tilda Swinton) è →
The Secret Sounds of Spores è un’ installazione realizzata da Yann Seznec insieme allo studioso di funghi Patrick Hickey. Come il titolo lascia intuire, l’intenzione di Seznec era quella di sonorizzare, dunque di →
