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 →
CD – Mind Travels Series
Sudden Fruit è un progetto collaborativo nel quale la pianista e compositrice giapponese Midori Hirano e l’architetto sonoro Ivan Pavlov danno vita con precisione chirurgica a un’opera immersiva e fantasmatica, sospesa tra acustico e digitale, →
The superhuman qualities we attribute to machines have historically concerned tasks related to labour and efficiency. However, with A Needle in a Haystack, Varvara & Mar explore what happens when these qualities are used to implement metaphors in their work. →
cassette – Edições CN
Sei solo sulla bicicletta, fendendo l’asfalto umido sotto il neon delle insegne. La tua app di mappe gracchia comandi metallici nell’auricolare, algoritmi che decidono il tuo percorso attraverso il labirinto urbano. Hai appena abbandonato il calore →
Thames and Hudson Ltd / V&A, ISBN 978-0500480977, English, 208 pages, 2024, UK
In perfect timing with the major Tate exhibition Electric Dreams, the Victoria and Albert Museum has teamed up with Thames and Hudson to →
CD – Crónica
Sono state realizzate tra il 2022 e il 2024 su un Nord Drum 2 – un sintetizzatore analogico di suoni percussivi – queste tredici tracce, seguendo un’idea basata su un pattern a 1 step con tempo variabile. →
Although IT and TLC are crucial to humanity and have gone through decades of technological innovation, they are often perceived as fragile entities, both on a personal and corporate level. We associate this fragility with what is visible, i.e. with →
CD – Room40
Pinkcourtesyphone è un progetto musicale ambient-drone fondato da Richard Chartier, artista sonoro losangelino attivo ormai dal lontano 1998. Già solo la combinazione di “pink”, “courtesy” e “phone” evoca un’estetica nostalgica e surreale, decisamente confermata dai soundscape onirici →
smallest functional unit, ISBN 978-3000803475, English, 92 pages, 2024, Japan
This is the fourth issue of Graphème [1], a publication that succeeds in exploring contemporary productions of experimental music scores. Printed in a large format to →
10″ – Futura Resistenza
Diversi sono i precedenti in musica sul tema della lamentazione, che affonda le sue radici nelle antiche tradizioni funebri e nelle espressioni di dolore collettivo. Queste composizioni, diffuse in molte culture, hanno dato voce al lutto →
Mario Santamaría’s Emerald Black Latency is a project that explores the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the Internet, as well as the speculative aspect of an object that is real, but impossible to perceive in its entirety. →
CD – MFR Contemporary Series
Man machine, semi human being, Man machine, super human being”. I Kraftwerk avevano già immaginato la nostra epoca cibernetica nel 1978 e tutte le relazioni che possiamo immaginare tra l’umano e l’algoritmico risentono forzatamente di →
Planetary Listening, book+cassette, ISBN 978-3000788598, English, 80 pages, 2024, Germany
Swamps & Stars was a series of events by artists and researchers from Berlin and other cities that explored ‘the vibrations between swampy spaces and the cosmos’. →
5CD – Macro
Onde sonore che ci trasportano in un viaggio senza meta, un’esplorazione continua del riverbero come mezzo espressivo, materiale primario, utilizzato in una precisa gamma di combinazioni, suddivise in 5 CD, ognuno della durata di un’ora. In Expanse, →
Inspired by the folk tale ‘The King’s Ears Are Donkey Ears’, Jun Hyoung San’s exclusive disjunctions#2; Whispering of the Wind (wish) is an installation whose structure with sixteen moving antennas resembles a bamboo forest, each with a loudspeaker attached to →
