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.
CD – Nux Org
Edging: Soundtrack For Dance Theatre Piece, con la coreografia di Guillaume Marie / TAZCORP, è stato rilasciato proprio in coincidenza con l’anteprima dell’omonima piece al Festival Les Inaccoutumés a Parigi, il 19 e 20 Novembre 2013. Le ambientazioni risaltano in maniera molto oscura e industriale, sontuose e particolarmente evocative di macchiniche progressioni, un po’ apocalittiche e avvolgenti, sicuramente affascinanti nel loro furore da “fine del tempo e della storia”. Kazuyuki Kishino non è nuovo a sperimentazioni di taglio noise-elettronico, avendo suonato e collaborato con una miriade d’artisti e compositori d’estrazione differente e anche la sua label, la Nux Org, è attiva sin dal 1985, facendo posto nel proprio catalogo a sperimentatori quali Melt-Banana, Merzbow, Fred Frith, Jim O’Rourke, oltre agli svariati altri gruppi nei quali KK NULL ha militato (Zeni Geva, Absolut Null Punkt, Terminal HZ, Yona-Kit, ecc). L’esperienza sensoriale deborda dai solchi della partitura, illuminata da un movimento incantato, previsione di una trasformazione fervida, sempre operante ma costantemente differita, frontiera futuribile che si dipana fra corpi desideranti e oscillazioni viscerali. Elaborazioni certo di grande forza suggestiva, con droni che s’imprimono a fondo sulla pelle, come segni di legature mantenute troppo strette, riferimenti a un climax sessuale sempre posticipato ma utilizzato ad arte come moltiplicatore delle pulsioni e della vigoria in gioco. Guillaume Marie e TAZCORP sono avvezzi da tempo a collaborazioni specifiche tra danzatori e musicisti – pensiamo ad esempio alla performance ispirata a Nancy Spungen e Sid Vicious – ma qui la relazione fra i diversi contesti si fa davvero tesa, merito soprattutto della trattazione di KK, mai fievole sempre coesa e misterica.
KK NULL – Edging: Soundtrack For Dance Theatre Piece
