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.
Issue #77 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X
Il nuovo numero di Neural co-edited with Morten Søndergaard è disponibile.
Abbonati ora! Perchè solo gli abbonati avranno l’esclusivo extra the artist’s postcard “here:this place, a listening exercise” by Jana Winderen.
Puoi anche abbonarti all’Edizione Digitale e →
One of the essential qualities of Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman’s artworks is to unpack systems that we take for granted, unveiling their unsettling mechanisms. And they don’t just describe these mechanisms, but often embody them. This is the case →
CD – Kohlhaas
Alessandro Bosetti, artista sonoro di origini milanesi e attualmente residente a Marsiglia, ha costruito la propria ricerca sull’alchimia dei frammenti. Da sempre affascinato dalla metamorfosi degli archivi digitali in partiture musicali, Bosetti intreccia corrispondenze nascoste tra suoni →
University of Alabama Press, ISBN 978-0817321864, English, 194 pages, 2024, USA
Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the ‘control society’ is often cited to describe our technological condition of being tracked and recorded in all activities that can →
Considered to be among the very first computational generative visual processes, cellular automata has historically represented a pioneering form of endless computer graphics featuring machine logic. As a long time artist engaging with the aesthetic of the ‘imaginaries of the →
CD – Persistence of Sound
Rubbish Music è il progetto che unisce due figure centrali della sperimentazione sonora: Kate Carr, sound artist specializzata in field recording, e Iain Chamber, accademico attivo nei campi dell’antropologia, della sociologia e degli studi culturali, →
Institute of Network Cultures, ISBN 978-9083328287, English, 155 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
There is a lively and vibrant underground scene around the world of people digitising publications and other analogue material, and sharing the files in different →
Navigando on line o usufruendo di servizi digitali di intrattenimento ci sottoponiamo ad una fitta serie di algoritmi che ci propongono contenuti. Che si tratti dell’ordine di visualizzazione dei risultati di un motore di ricerca, dei film che ci vengono →
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
Aksioma, ISBN 978-9617173314, English, 216 pages, 2022, Slovenia
The publishing project of the Slovenian institution Aksioma has produced a small permanent library of publications that expand the scope and momentum of their respective exhibitions and events. →
CD – Kohlhaas
Se per generare dei suoni puri in un progetto musicale è principalmente solo uno strumento ad essere utilizzato, spingendolo ai limiti delle oggettive possibilità tecniche – in questo caso una chitarra elettrica che viene accompagnata da una →
CD – Crónica
Seconda implementazione della serie Textuur, nella quale Jos Smolders s’interroga sui possibili processi di privazione del contesto originario – o se preferite di hijacking – relativo ai suoni, tagliandoli in piccoli pezzi, infondendo loro una →
CD – true blanking
Una lunga suite di oltre quaranta minuti è il prodotto della collaborazione multimediale fra Keith Rowe e Kjell Bjørgeengen, duo che è avvezzo alla realizzazione anche di opere visuali, utilizzando sia gli oscillatori audio di Bjørgeengen →
If social media had never existed, we don’t know if and when we would have had such a fragile media landscape where our judgement is essential to discern truth from falsehood. Mrinalini Singha & Haoheng Tang have developed a hybrid →
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 →
