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.
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262544818, English, 336 pages, 2022, USA
During the historic ReadMe Software Art Festival in Aarhus in 2004, there was a final performance night in a small club (Musikcafeen ) where it was →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262018364, 168 pages, 2012, English, USA
Una delle principali questioni che si pongono circa il codice è la sua somiglianza con la lingua parlata. Quest’ultima è collegata al codice per molti aspetti: come un’essenziale “interfaccia” con →
448 pages
, University Of Chicago Press
, 2011, English
, ISBN: 978-0226038315
Il problema della comunicazione tra studi umanistici e scienza (definito in passato come il problema delle due “due culture”) non →
“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 →
Routledge,
2009,
English, 160 pages,
ISBN-13: 978-0415547628
Concentrandosi sulla natura processuale della computer art e tralasciando volutamente tutte le questioni strettamente connesse al digitale, questo libro cerca diligentemente di definire una filosofia della →
CD-ROM
Entr’acte
E80
Se il campo della produzione audiovisiva ha due diverse tendenze (la sonificazione del visuale e la visualizzazione del suono) questo lavoro può essere collocato esattamente nel mezzo. Creato da →
Il ruolo letterario ed evocativo del codice di programmazione non è stato nel tempo adeguatamente valorizzato, in particolare da scrittori e poeti. Eppure, c’è un potenziale incredibile per creare senso attraverso la sintassi →
L’affetto verso le creature viventi è stato ampiamente sfruttato nei video games. Dai primi astratti cellular automata, attraverso il seminale video game del 1985 “Little Computer People”, alla popolarità di massa del Tamagotchi negli →
Pa++ern è un’installazione che produce nuove interazioni nei social media utilizzando stringhe di codice generate dall’utente. Essa converte questi dati in un prodotto finale di tipo tessile usando macchine da cucire. L’interesse comune dei →
Shoot’em up (or shump for shot) è un sottogenere nel settore dei videogiochi di natura piuttosto stilizzata, in cui il giocatore controlla un mezzo o un personaggio e combatte un ampio numero di →
