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.
Neural 76, What is real? + extra: a Destructive Circuits by Dani Ploeger . Abbonati ora!
Issue #76, 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X
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CD – Arjunamusic
I passaggi elegiaci e space con i quali si apre questo rilascio per l’Arjunamusic Records ci riportano immediatamente a un’elettronica d’antan modulata in tempo reale. Un tipo di performance musicale che in epoca pre-internettiana era decisamente più →
CD – Room40
Sono catture auditive di suoni d’acqua quelle che vengono esibite da Celer in Cursory Asperses, provenienti da vari fiumi, ruscelli, laghi, spiagge e piscine, effettuate facendo ricorso a registratori a cassette e combinate con sonorità di strumenti →
Sound walks have become a consolidated theory and artistic practice over time, with various acoustic devices enhancing or revealing participants’ listening abilities. In Embedded/Embodied, Farzaneh Nouri & Arash Akbari add a computational layer by training an artificial intelligence (AI) to →
LP+book – REV. Lab.
In meno di mezz’ora sono ben 24 i brani che compongono questo Traces, ultima fatica di Filax Staël, progetto olandese che fa capo a Bas Mantel e Okko Perekki, duo avvezzo a sonorità elettroniche radicali, →
CD – Futura Resistenza
L’occasione che ha dato a Nika Son la giusta motivazione per questa uscita è stata quella di supportare la regista Helena Wittmann, che per il suo film Drift – poi uscito nel 2017 – aveva →
Symbiosis è un varco che permette di entrare nel corpo e nelle sensazioni di future creature simbionti nate da ipotetiche operazioni genetiche incrociate tra mondo animale, vegetale e tecnologia. L’esperienza in realtà immersiva, creata dal collettivo olandese di experience design →
CG-ARTS, ISBN 978-4903474717, Japanese, 802 pages, 2023, Japan
Within Japan, which still remains relatively inaccessible to the West, there has been a long-standing pronounced and outstanding tradition of the production of new media art. A few →
CD + booklet – The Dim Coast
Risalgono al 2002, anno nel quale è iniziato il progetto Auditorium, le prime elaborazioni di quest’opera di Christof Migone, sound artista canadese a suo agio con un tipo di ricerca piuttosto astratta ma →
If ‘there are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew’, as McLuhan stated, where is the public opinion on climate change? Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (interviewed in issue #26) provides an answer with Climate Parliament, which consists of thousands of →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262547956, English, 320 pages, 2024, USA
It is not only the comparison between the representation of land in the past and the present that should exclusively influence our awareness of the current →
CD – Touch
Come si diffonde e viene amplificato il dominio della tecnologia e come cambia conseguentemente la nostra percezione della realtà? È questa la domanda forse più significativa con la quale oggi – ma già dagli anni ottanta, in →
Disnovation.org (Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska) has taken on the absurdities of energy management in the industry and continues to produce technically advanced and conceptually strong works. With The Solar Share, a microalgae culture produces edible biomass every day through →
Valiz / RADIUS, ISBN 978-9493246348, English, 256 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
We are earthbound. With this quote from Bruno Latour, the editors set the tone of Worlding Ecologies, an anthology of texts that emerged from a →
LP + book – Nothing To Commit
È un raffinato progetto, Notes On Cuts, scritto e realizzato dallo storico dell’arte e studioso John Peffer, che con un approccio davvero atipico e ispirato rievoca criticamente la censura perpetuata dalla South →
