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 – Terziruolo
“Il futuro è uno strumento monòtono” diceva Francis Picabia, uno strumento che conserva sempre, o quasi sempre, lo stesso tono, che si ripete a intervalli regolari. Emiliano Romanelli sembra prendere in parola il motto del pittore e poeta surrealista registrando in 333 Loops (Volume 1) tutti gli eventi sonori con un sistema modulare – omonimo dell’uscita – progettato personalmente ed agito al fine di ottenere una salvifica composizione, molto immersiva, suadente e spirituale. Il sistema messo a punto dall’artista abruzzese di Città Sant’Angelo è in realtà composto da un archivio di 333 loop sonori preregistrati, implementazione prodotta tra il 2008 e il 2011 grazie ad un software di sintesi del suono azionato in differenti ambienti acustici e facendo uso dei microfoni di differenti registratori analogici e digitali. Questa uscita – che è la seconda della Terziruolo e la prima in solo di Romanelli – è la documentazione della performance quadrifonica tenuta dal vivo presso il chiostro medievale dell’Ex Convento dei Cappuccini di Colli del Tronto, all’interno del Within 01 Festival, evento andato in scena Venerdì 13 Settembre 2013. Emiliano Romanelli che molti ricorderanno per essere stato membro attivo dei Tu M’ con Rossano Polidoro non è nuovo alle strutture d’impianto ambientale e ai montaggi loop-based – basti ricordare il lavoro Monochromes Vol.1 per LINE – organizzati in sensibilissimi ed eterei passaggi, resi ancora più nitidi in questo caso dal meticoloso mastering di Giuseppe Ielasi, un altro compositore e manipolatore di suoni assai apprezzato nelle scene internazionali. Una segnalazione è doverosa anche per Fabio Perletta qui prestatosi in qualità di fotografo: con un interessante scatto di copertina effettuato nel giardino botanico dell’Ex Convento – infatti – completa la pattuglia di artisti italiani a vario titolo coinvolti nel progetto.
Emiliano Romanelli – 333 Loops (Volume 1) – Excerpt # 1
