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.
Habitar photo set. Architetture invisibili: la curiosità generata da questo paradosso è il punto di partenza di Habitar – Bending the urban frame, nuova tappa del più ampio percorso curatoriale Mediateca Expandida del Laboral →
Nowhere / Now / Here photo set
Nowhere / Now / Here è una mostra con 78 lavori di 67 artisti provenienti da 20 paesi, in esposizione fino a fine aprile al LABoral, Centro de →
ISEA 2008 photo set
Più di un dubbio ha sollevato la scelta di Singapore come città ospitante l’edizione 2008 di ISEA, e quasi istantaneamente è tornata in mente la definizione di William Gibson creata →
Banquete photo set
Banquete, mostra giunta alla terza edizione al LABoral di Gijón, è un importante occasione per far il punto sullo stato dell’arte della scena spagnola. La curatrice Karin Ohlenschläger ha infatti proposto →
Play Cultures photo set
La cosiddetta “game culture” sta diventando un vasto territorio culturale che va dalle sue origini pop ai crescenti studi accademici. “Play Cultures” è stato un titolo appropriato per un →
Homo Ludens Ludens foto set
Il solo gran parlare dei videogame (che non si ferma da cinque anni almeno) poteva costituire un’ottima ragione per spingere la mastodontica istituzione asturiana “Laboral” (che s’interessa →
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Art Machines Machine Art photo set
La produzione fisica autonoma di una macchina è spesso stata percepita come “magica”. La percezione che →
Transmediale 08 photo set
L’edizione 2008 del Festival Transmediale si è aperta con una serie di novità importanti: un nuovo direttore artistico, Stephen Kovats che subentra dopo un settennato ad Andreas Broeckmann; il →
Photo set
Il Centro De Arte y Creación Industrial Laboral di Gijón (nelle Asturie) produce (in collaborazione con la Fundación Telefónica) e ospita la mostra Emergentes, una panoramica sugli artisti dell’America Latina che si cimentano →
Foto set
La metà degli anni novanta è stata senza dubbio un periodo seminale per le arti mediali con un fiorire di iniziative internazionali che hanno incoraggiato l’avvento delle reti telematiche globali, →
