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 #78 2026 ISSN: 2037-108X
Il nuovo numero di Neural è disponibile.
Abbonati ora! Perchè solo gli abbonati avranno l’esclusivo extra the artist’s poster “VOICE_ERASE.PY” by Robin Rimbaud – Scanner, and the catalogue of the Sussurra Luce sound art festival.
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CD – Oscillations
Louise Rossiter, compositrice acusmatica e performer con una solida formazione classica, per questo progetto ha registrato diversi strumenti – pianoforte, violino, viola e percussioni – ottenendo numerose sonorità che ha poi trasformato, processato e organizzato in una →
Vivien Roussel developed Cosmo metabolization during his residency at the Kersnikiva Institute as part of the EMAP programme. He started from the paradox of the immense production of heat by the digital world, and how it is wasted. Following this, →
USB drive – Permeated Transmissions
Quando i confini tra società e natura si assottigliano, aumenta anche il rischio di spillover: il salto di specie di un patogeno da un organismo all’altro, fino all’essere umano. Un processo che la recente pandemia →
polardots.studio GmbH, magazine, ISSN 29444667, English, 140 pages, 2025, Germany
Whenever a new technology has become accessible to the general public, new magazines dedicated to it have soon been launched, followed by others focusing on art →
LP – Spoken Matter
Sono sorprendenti ripetizioni di parole isolate, ben ventiquattro loop, dodici per ciascun lato del vinile, selezionate per la loro ambiguità e qualità sonora, vocalizzate e registrate dal poeta Ian Hatcher, che ha sviluppato un approccio prosodico →
The computer animation universe has often be one of its own, privileging technical virtuosity, spotless aesthetics, removed from other fields of art. This is not the case for Puppet which is meant to be a music composition software that uses →
CD – Persistence of Sound
Guidata da un’estetica sospesa tra suggestione e malinconia, Natasha Barrett raccoglie registrazioni effettuate con microfoni ambisonici 3D, sottoponendole a processi di decostruzione, trasformazione e ricomposizione in studio. Ne scaturiscono paesaggi sonori che non rimandano necessariamente →
Jean Boite Books JBE / Jeu de Paume, book, ISBN 978-2365681087, English, 304 pages, 2025, France
The World Through AI: Exploring Latent Spaces was an exhibition at the Parisian Jeu de Paume, curated by Antonio Somaini, →
Chinese Whispers have become a model for artists dealing with the transmission of information, and the misunderstandings instigated by technological mediation (see HAI, Speak / Fala and NEST). Yoki Yao’s Whisper capitalises on the most fragile contemporary exchange of →
CD – LOM
Risalgono al 2010 queste registrazioni, originariamente approntate per essere utilizzate come materiali per un’installazione audiovisiva presso l’Exposition of Mining al Museo Tecnico Nazionale di Praga. Il progetto, purtroppo, non è mai stato realizzato e le registrazioni sono →
servus.at – kunst und kultur im netz, book, ISBN 978-3950420036,English, 96 pages, 2024, Austria
The international movement of hacktivists operating servers began in the early, pioneering days of the pre-internet and continued into the era of →
Software artists in the 2000s experimented with forged documents generators to obtain social support or to produce fake cease and desist letters. These documents were plausible but featured a distinctive aesthetic. In Morry Kolman and Kendra Albert’s Heavyweight, the →
CD – Soleilmoon
L’eredità di Nikola Tesla è un dispositivo simbolico, un varco che continua a irradiare potenzialità. Le sue sperimentazioni non rimangono confinate al dominio della tecnica, ma si articolano come pensiero in forma di energia, come ipotesi di →
Fundação MEO, ISBN 978-9729968594, English, Portuguese, 204 pages, 2025, Portugal
Still largely unacknowledged by official art history and the contemporary art scene, (inter)net art remains relevant to scholars and institutions, who recognise its visionary and pioneering strategies, →
