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 75, Artificial Corporeality + extra: a postcard pointing to an AR extension of the artwork Ejector by Tim Høibjerg . Abbonati ora!
Issue #75, 2023 ISSN: 2037-108X
Abbonati ora! perché solo gli iscritti potranno ricevere un extra: a →
10” – arbitrary
Seconda di una serie di collaborazioni, che prendono le sembianze di remix, pubblicati in vinile 10″ da arbitrary, per Mads Emil Nielsen, musicista/compositore di Copenhagen avvezzo ad arditi progetti utilizzando sorgenti sonore essenziali, spesso integrate con brevi →
Telescopes have historically been the first substantial ‘augmentation’ of our eyesight. The technical properties of focus and magnification of optics have exponentially extended our vision of far-away matter. Now with our imaginary progressively colonised by computational visuality, all that we →
transcript , ISBN 978-3837674163, English, 198 pages, 2024, Germany
This book explores post-digital aesthetics in audiovisual contemporary arts, looking at how they became essential to understanding our time by critically addressing the impacts of digital technologies. →
CD – Noton
“Non c’è difesa, opposizione o rigetto all’alterigia dell’hybridus”, così commentavamo il precedente episodio di questa saga, iniziata nel 2021, che riporta Alva Noto sotto i riflettori, a ulteriore conferma – se ancora ce ne fosse bisogno – →
Sebbene il dibattito sulla privacy e sul diritto all’anonimato vada avanti da molti anni, non sembra certo aver esaurito il suo perché: siamo, di fatto, più che mai scrutati, intercettati, riconosciuti da un insieme sempre più ricco di sistemi di →
Atropos Press, ISBN 978-1737559146 , English, 212 pages, 2024, Germany
We live in a historical moment in which machines, through their algorithms, have acquired the ability to generate infinite realistic images, with an obfuscating aesthetic and →
CD – Room40
Tahlia Palmer, sotto il moniker Amby Downs, presenta per la Room40 di Lawrence English, Ngunmal e I Am Holding My Breath, due composizioni della durata rispettivamente di quasi 29 e 21 minuti, implementazioni che sono state progettate →
cassette – Gruenrekorder|K7
DinahBird e Jean-Philippe Renoult sono interessati alle prime tecnologie di trasmissione radiofonica, che adesso vengono attualizzate in virtù della necessità che si ha nel mondo della finanza di veicolare dati ad alta velocità, utilizzando quindi specifiche frequenze, →
cassette – Ricerca Sonora
Filippo Lilli e Donato Loforese, aka Polisonum, ricordano spesso come i suoni per loro natura siano legati a un’assoluta unicità degli eventi. Bisogna quindi essere presenti, trovarsi sul posto, sapere cogliere il momento nel quale in →
Nell’installazione sonora “umwandler” Nika Schmitt sperimenta l’idea di un sistema autonomo di generazione e conservazione di energia. L’opera consiste in una sorta di enorme bobina elettromagnetica costruita all’interno del Water Reservoir di Berlino, uno spazio sottorraneo circolare, vuoto e roboante, →
cassette – Anunaki Tabla
Prima uscita da solista per Kenn Hartwig, bassista e membro delle band Das Ende Der Liebe, C.A.R., Enjuti, Center for Mind and Brain e Shiva And The Destroyer, solo per citarne alcune, musicista coinvolto in un →
LP – iDEAL
In tempi di retromania insistita e di feticizzazione dell’offline è quasi conseguente che alcuni artisti elettronici siano interessati a strumenti vintage e a tecniche performative che niente hanno a che spartire con i moderni set-up improntati al →
Galerie der Abseitigen Künste/Mille Plateaux, book+USB card, ISBN 978-3948478193, English, 64 pages, 2023, Germany
The electric guitar has been playing a structural role for music especially in the second half of the 20th century, and still →
LP + booklet – Die Schachtel
Il Colore Del Melograno, seconda opera del regista sovietico Sergei Parajanov, è un film di fine anni sessanta, adesso sicuramente da annoverare fra i cult di quella stagione, quando in URSS era ancor più →
