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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Rojal Förlag, ISBN 978-9198492736, English, 150 pages, 2024, Sweden
The seminal concept of dead media, popularised by Bruce Sterling in the 1990s with a project that compiled a remarkable collection of descriptions and histories of obsolete →
CD – empreintes DIGITALes
Uno dei più iconici sintetizzatori modulari degli anni ’70, il Buchla 200, continua ai giorni nostri ad attrarre musicisti, sound designer e sperimentatori provenienti anche da differenti ambiti, come se il tempo compreso fra le avanguardie →
Delay was integrated as a symbolic element in early net art and is now still very much present, an unnoticed element in streaming. The process of unveiling, with the physicality of the global internet, has already been undertaken by various →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517917418, English, 368 pages, 2024, USA
Machine and Sovereignty is the third volume of a planned trilogy, the initial offering from Yuk Hui being Recursivity and Contingency (2019), which was →
LP – Amorfik Artifacts
Di origine ucraina ma oramai residente a Madrid, Iury Lech può vantare un primo album già nel lontano 1989 – per Hyades, storica etichetta indipendente spagnola – pioniere a suo modo di una scena elettronica e →
Emotion recognition is a holy grail for the AI industry and has the potential to quantify customer reactions. Hege Tapio has created a dystopian scenario in Ephemeral, which is part of her doctoral thesis. She builds a fictitious company of →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517911591, English, 288 pages, 2024, USA
If the screen visually represents the body with an escalating sense of realism, it also negates its sophisticated haptic and thermal qualities through its glass-covered, two-dimensional →
LP – Futura Resistenza
Sono sequenze piuttosto cupe, eteree e spettrali quelle che in “A Wrong Turn Towards Eternity” – una lunga suite di oltre dieci minuti – c’introducono a questa ultima prova di Mark Vernon, artista sonoro di Glasgow →
In the many ways that artists interpret their role with science, from becoming the ‘god’ of an ecosystem to decoding invisible signals and symbols of various living entities, Mauricio Lacrampette embraces instead the role of the serious scientist using →
Set Margins, ISBN 978-9083350189, English, 136 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
‘Female bodies and technologies have an ambiguous relationship’, writes Morgane Billuart in her new book Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed. It is an auto-ethnographic journey →
CD – Persistence of Sound
La Persistence of Sound è un’etichetta discografica indipendente che ha fatto dell’esplorazione sonora in spazi urbani e non uno dei suoi speciali ambiti di ricerca, congiuntamente all’interesse per la musique concrète e cercando d’inglobare nel →
Aurora Mititelu has developed a special digital character for her artworks. His name is Abel and he is the ‘synthetic male version’ of herself, with whom she has a romantic relationship. In Abel & I, the interaction with Abel takes →
Destructive Circuits by Dani Ploeger, an envelope of hacked everyday digital technologies, functioning electronic audio circuits, with unexpected sounds. It is part of an eponymous body of work supported by a residency at V2_ in Rotterdam.
audiOh!Recordings, cd+dvd, English, 2024, UK
It is not uncommon for audiovisual artworks to reflect on a personal condition, but it is not common for them to be able to play with it conceptually and achieve →
