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.
Neural 67, Adversarial Tactics
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Issue #67, Autumn 2020 ISSN: 2037-108X
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McIlwain, Charlton D. – Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190863845, English, 272 pages, 2019, USA
You won’t open the black box and find a simple ‘if statement’ that reads: ‘if this is a person of colour; then discriminate;’. Similarly, →
Capture, facial recognising the power
In keeping with his tradition of scraping of controversial data, in “Capture” Paolo Cirio has used a series of 1,000 photographs shot during the wave of protests in France, to isolate 4,000 policeman through a Facial Recognition algorithm. This database →
Nebulo – Parallaxes
Vinyl 12″ – Le Cabanon
Thomas Pujols, a French producer who uses the moniker Nebulo, is accustomed to persistent experimentation using mostly polyphonic synthesizers, with which he explores harmonies and dissonances, constructing microtones and other tonal scales that escape the →
edited by Achim Szepanski – Ultrablack Of Music
Mille Plateaux, ISBN-13: 978-3000648168, English, 268 pages, 2020, Germany
Achim Szepanski is the mostly known as the founder of two historical music labels, Force Inc. and Mille Plateaux, but he is a quite distinctive figure →
Not For You, systematic TikTok confusion
Ben Grosser’s artworks centre on the technical sabotage of social media processes, namely the disruption of the metrics and quantification systems on which the platform’s business models are based. His most recent work “Not For You” is an “automated confusion →
Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter – ɅV / A Sonic Writing Tool
12″ Vinyl – Research and Waves
The Berlin label Research and Waves, an artistic project curated by Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Maria Karpushina, Gustavo Méndez Lopez, Norman Neumann and Henrik Nieratschker, released a twelve inch vinyl composed of words, a sort of →
Caleb Kelly – Tangible/Intangible: The Sound of Sculpture
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ISBN-13: 978-1988543031, English, 56 pages, 2020, New Zealand
The realm of art and sound is a slippery one, with ‘sound art’ being a bit abused as a definition, but with plenty of →
Octopus, manifesting the remote visiting presence
It’s hard to know how much we will be represented through cameras rather than in person in the future. Our ‘camera presence’ is not only increasingly accepted but becoming a norm. Trevor Paglen has used his “Bloom” exhibition at Pace →
Pedro Rebelo – Listen to me
cassette – Crónica
What do nanotechnologies, innovative industrial food safety processes and experimental music have in common? Is the ‘charm’ of certain sound environments alone enough to inspire an entire album of contemporary experimentation? Yes, if the formal result is →
edited by Hava Aldouby – Shifting Interfaces, An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st-Century Media Arts
Leuven University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9462702257, English, 332 pages, 2020, Belgium
If we can relate every medium to our senses, then we might also claim that media art is, more often than not, about our →
Shotgun texting, portraying blocked means of expression
There’s a symbolism in the technology we use that is deeper than its daily appearance, especially for the devices that we use the most. In “Shotgun texting”, Exonemo artist group uses a shotgun to shoot a few keyboards of different →
Nuuun – Current Suite No.1
Online – NN
“Current Suite No.1″ by Nuuun is a suite of four audiovisual compositions exploring an interchangeable use of frequencies that we can both see and hear. These compositions are inspired by early 1970s video synthesizers and Scan Processors, →
Valentina Tanni – Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte
Nero Editions, ISBN-13: 978-8880560982, Italian, 247 pages, 2020, Italy
Valentina Tanni is a prominent Italian historian of internet art. She has researched and developed a sophisticated discourse about internet visual subcultures. In this book she →
Material Music, a band of matter
Mo H. Zareei’s ”Material Music” features eight kinetic sound-sculptures made of an electromechanical actuator striking identical blocks of different solid materials, respectively brass, copper, aluminium, steel, hardwood, softwood, glass, and marble. The shifts in striking time are calculated through phase-shifting →