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.
“Questa sera ci vestiamo eleganti e andiamo alla filarmonica ad ascoltare il chiasso della metropoli”- è quello che avrebbe potuto dire una coppia di abitanti di Stettino, storica città polacca che da qualche anno fa da palcoscenico al MUSIC.DESIGN.FORM Festival. Ha fatto parte di esso l’installazione Noise Surround System del collettivo panGenerator, noto per la creazione di opere che sfumano i confini tra arte e ingegneria. All’interno della moderna sede della Filarmonica della città gli artisti hanno affrontato il tema dell’inquinamento acustico proprio in un contesto contrariamente associato a un’esperienza sonora/musicale colta e rigorosa. L’installazione si presenta come una grande struttura alta 4,5 metri e del diametro di 7 metri in grado di offrire al pubblico un’esperienza sensoriale piuttosto violenta, utilizzando un sistema di altoparlanti e di lampade capaci di muoversi lungo la struttura circolare, dando vita ad una sensazione di “circondamento” attraverso luci e rumori. L’opera, grazie ad un software personalizzato in grado di controllare luci, suoni e movimenti in sincronia, gioca con l’acustica nello spazio, avvolgendo fisicamente il fruitore in un’esperienza disorientante. Rumori campionati dal paesaggio sonoro della città sono orchestrati in una coreografia audiovisiva spaziale, che si muove in sincrono sia per gli occhi che per le orecchie. Quest’opera non solo esplora la multipla dimensione del rumore in sé, intrecciandolo con i nostri diversi sensi, ma ci spinge ad interrogarci sul nostro rapporto con i suoni – caotici – che subiamo in maniera incontrollata. Un concentrato di inquinamento acustico urbano, va in scena, danzando, nel cuore della città.
panGenerator – Noise Surround System
