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 – 1000füssler
L’ultima uscita di Gregory Büttner per 1000füssler – forte del chilometrico titolo Wenn uns jemand hört – sag – wir haben einfach kurz Luft geschnappt – ripropone nella track 1 una speciale composizione per l’omonimo spettacolo di Anja Winterhalter, performer, fotografa e drammaturga contemporanea che ha ad Amburgo la sua base operativa già da diversi anni. Anche la track 2, “Falte”, deriva da una collaborazione con Anja Winterhalter, l’installazione audioplay Echolot 1# Skipping Spaces del 2011 e le sequenze audio costruite dal manipolatore sonoro sulle vibrazioni di onde sinusoidali, crepitii digitali e rumore bianco sono state indirizzate su oggetti appositamente preparati, ad esempio su lattine, tubi e scatole di legno, allo scopo di mescolare feedback “metallici” e sibilanti assieme a un po’ d’acustica dai riverberi più morbidi e organici. I suoni sono stati quindi ri-registrati in una miscela di sequenze assai dettagliate e immersive, dense d’infinitamente piccole variazioni, salti di scala, in una miscela di modulazioni dalle grane differenti, che si sovrappongono e s’intrecciano, tuttavia non caoticamente, sempre rispettando come una sottile armonia, comunque pregna della tradizione elettroacustica, della quale Gregory Büttner è un fine conoscitore. Va sottolineato che il progetto originario della prima piece fosse del 2010 e che nel 2011 pure Gregory Büttner aveva presentato una serata live dallo stesso titolo allo Stark Bewölkt, spazio dedicato alla experimental music ad Amburgo, in una versione “solo audio” della musica per lo spettacolo. L’artista – insomma – ritorna sul luogo del delitto e lo si può capire quando le suggestioni che ci rimanda ai nostri sensi sono così potenti e coerenti. Un suono estremo ma delicato che stimola la nostra attenzione ai dettagli con una lenta espansione dei trattamenti e delle atmosfere: una interessantissima uscita che ci riconcilia con le sonorità più sperimentali e astratte.
Gregory Büttner – Wenn uns jemand hört – sag – wir haben einfach kurz Luft geschnappt
Gregory Büttner – Wenn uns jemand hört – sag – wir haben einfach kurz Luft geschnappt (Excerpt)
