http://www.neural.it/art/ en Copyright 2012 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:35:42 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss We generally think of surveillance as a detached gaze, a remote form of watching. The fact that cameras record information continuously and unobtrusively somehow makes their presence elusive. And the idea of data being analyzed only when needed makes these devices feel innocuous. However the gaze of surveillance is always directed and motivated by human desires - it is a form of voyeurism. What ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/02/zwischenraeume_the_deviant_sur.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/02/zwischenraeume_the_deviant_sur.phtml art Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:35:42 +0100 
book+2CD
, Edições Nodar, 
315 pages
, Nodar 003, 
ISBN 978-9899720503
This thick book, coming with two CDs, is the outcome of a three-year program of international sound art residencies made by twin brothers who have here focused on their Portuguese hometown - Nodar. Forty sound artists were involved in reading, watching and listening to the documentation of the respective projects. In the several hundred color pages of the catalogue the reader can be temporary ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/02/edited_by_luis_costa_rui_costa.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/02/edited_by_luis_costa_rui_costa.phtml book Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:46:57 +0100 The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/the_deleted_city_social_web_ar.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/the_deleted_city_social_web_ar.phtml art Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:35:47 +0100 
The MIT Press
, English, 
464 pp., 
ISBN 978-0262014960
This book is a small gem among the many dealing with the history of media art. Stephen Jones has undertaken an excellent and extensive research project, digging not only into his valuable personal archive of Australian media art (patiently assembled over decades) but also sifting through public libraries and private collections. This is neither a dispassionate nor pretentious academic work. It is, ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/stephen_jones_synthetics_aspec.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/stephen_jones_synthetics_aspec.phtml book Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:11:34 +0100 Versus is a kinetic sound installation by David Letellier. Its functioning is characterized by an interactive dialogic mechanism. There are two kinetic sculptures that are interdependent and they have to be face to face to make sense. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, joining at the center in a flower-like shape with actuators to allow slow movement. In the center of this singular "corolla" there's ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/versus_sounding_dialogues.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/versus_sounding_dialogues.phtml art Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:49:54 +0100 Polity Press, 200 pages, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0745641843
Defining new media has always been tricky. Here, the author gives a clear and thorough definition of new media based on three components: the device/artifact which enables the ability to communicate, the communication activity/practice, and the social arrangements and organizational forms created around the artifact and the practice. This is a strong base that, coupled with an explicit reference to ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/leah_lievrouw_alternative_and.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/leah_lievrouw_alternative_and.phtml book Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:13:34 +0100 With the work "On Spam, Business Proposal" Niels Post documents the urban intervention he acted in Brussels with a photographs series . For this action the artist has selected some of the most effective phrases contained in the commercial spam messages, the ones that claim incredible and superfast chances for personal gain. He printed these on adhesive vinyl, sticking them on the windows of ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/on_spam_business_proposal_urba.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/on_spam_business_proposal_urba.phtml art Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:49:28 +0100 216 pages, Oxford University Press, 2010, English, ISBN-13: 978-0195387667
The stated purpose of Demers in this book is to find a unifying (strictly speaking) aesthetics for electronic music, despite the very different ideologies the different genres come from. Although the task would seem too vast, she restricts the timespan considered from the 1980s onwards. 1980 has been chosen because it represents a pivotal moment for democratization of electronic music ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/joanna_demers_listening_throug.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/joanna_demers_listening_throug.phtml book Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:42:27 +0100 Ongoing diminution of natural resources and the urgent need to adopt more sustainabile practices are undoubtedly among the most crucial matters for the world today. As awareness increases, more and more young creators are engaging with this topic, taking a critical and active stance by building prototypes and actual alternatives. Markus Kayser is such an example; a young industrial designer ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/solar_sinter_solar_way_of_thin.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2012/01/solar_sinter_solar_way_of_thin.phtml activism Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:21 +0100 ISBN: 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten
"Activism" in art has become a fashionable topic, especially after the beginning of the global financial crisis. Critiquing the system, formalizing regrets about the past and expressing fears about an uncertain future have become daily topics for major media. Artists are now also reflecting these feelings (maybe even more than during the sixties and seventies) with an abundance of creativity, ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/r_klanten_m_hubner_alain_biebe.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/r_klanten_m_hubner_alain_biebe.phtml book Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:22:24 +0100 Moving across two and a half decades from the windy north Atlantic coast of Canada to the center of Warsaw, the large-scale Aeolian instruments of Gordon Monahan form a temporal bridge between the Fluxus-propelled experimental music of the sixties and seventies and contemporary sound art production. Taking the former’s deconstruction of musical heritage and combining it with an approach ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/a_piano_listening_to_itself_ch.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/a_piano_listening_to_itself_ch.phtml sound art Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:17:27 +0100 Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/antidatamining_bot_financial_k.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/antidatamining_bot_financial_k.phtml art Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:00:34 +0100 576 pages, 
The MIT Press
, 2011, 
English, 
ISBN: 978-0262515818
In the history of media art, Zagreb has definitively been on the map since the very beginning. In 1961 there was a seminal movement called "New Tendencies", which officially started with a pioneering exhibition curated by Matko Mestrovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This international group of (self-defined) researchers were investigating how emerging computer technologies could be used to ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/edited_by_margit_rosen_a_littl.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/edited_by_margit_rosen_a_littl.phtml book Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:56:54 +0100 Printing on (real) one dollar bills (the ones with George Washington) enjoyable and graphically concrete data concerning the distribution of wealth in the United States: this is the premise of Occupy George, a performance created in the wake of the many growing participatory movements born out of the original "Occupy Wall Street." The notes, constituting medium and message with an incisiveness that ]]> http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/occupy_george_talking_dollars.phtml http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/occupy_george_talking_dollars.phtml hacktivism Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:03:50 +0100 The new Neural issue is out.
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