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.
Neural 75, Artificial Corporeality + extra: a postcard pointing to an AR extension of the artwork Ejector by Tim Høibjerg . Abbonati ora!
Issue #75, 2023 ISSN: 2037-108X
Abbonati ora! perché solo gli iscritti potranno ricevere un extra: a →
Trevor Paglen has developed a series of works based on the well-known ‘Psychological Operations’ (PSYOP), i.e. deceptive military operations to influence the population through the audiovisual staging of non-existent facts or events. Cyclops is the latest in this series and →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Già i Kraftwerk agli albori degli anni ottanta promettevano – immaginiamo poco consapevoli di cotanta anticipazione – che azionando un tasto speciale un piccolo calcolatore elettronico avrebbe suonato una breve melodia. A dire il vero quella delle →
Strange Attractor Press, ISBN 978-1907222476, English, 156 pages, 2023, UK
The use of X-ray film to record music in Russia before 1989 has emerged in the last couple of decades, with mesmerising images of grooves →
LP – Touch
Le due composizioni presentate in The Blue Beyond, sono commissionate dell’Audemars Piguet Contemporary, prestigiosa casa orologistica svizzera all’artista Jana Winderen. In “The Art of Listening: Under Water”, prima traccia in scaletta, l’idea che lei ha sviluppato è →
For this installation, Tania Candiani took the “logbook” of Rayuela, the iconic novel by the Argentinean Julio Cortazar, in which the author recorded the process of writing the novel, using drawings and all kinds of signs to sketch it. She →
CD – Fylkingen
Si presenta a marchio Fylkingen in un elegante vinile rosso trasparente da 140 grammi con tasca interna poly-foderata avvolta in pellicola termoretraibile o con un altrettanto stilizzato CD l’ultima fatica di Lisa Stenberg, compositrice di Luleå, nel →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262544634, English, 284 pages, 2022, USA
Digitising a musical instrument means exchanging its physical and mechanical qualities for its functionality encoded in software. This seemingly standardised process has brought about a profound cultural →
cassette – SØVN
Giulia Francavilla, compositrice, ricercatrice, performer e sound designer torinese, meglio nota sotto l’alias di Giulia Rae, si è specializzata presso il Sonology Institute de L’Aia, nei Paesi Bassi, dove adesso lavora come ricercatrice associata. La talentosa musicista, →
Starting from the idea that “fungal networks act like radio transmitters”, Myles Merckel has considered the VLF frequency band as the most suitable to engage in what he defines as Biological_Data_Transmission. The aim is to create systems for “identifying, amplifying →
2CD – Cellule 75
Nel prossimo futuro i curatori di un’ipotetica mostra che accenda i riflettori sulle più significative opere artistiche partorite durante il lockdown dovuto al Covid-19 non potranno esimersi dal selezionare questo MM∞XX Vol.1 & 2, edito da →
La Biennale di Venezia, ISBN 978-889727780, English, Italian, 392 pages, 2023, Italy
The catalogue of one of the Venice Biennials is an integral part of the event itself, as it brings together in a single volume items →
Secondo un recente report dell’UNHCR (Agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati), guerre, violenze, violazioni dei diritti umani e disastri ambientali hanno reso un incremento degli sfollati a 114 milioni di persone. Vite umane dalle culture e origini più disparate, →
LP + single-sided 10″ – Ergot
Le sound artist Annea Lockwood e Ruth Anderson, quest’ultima venuta a mancare nel 2019 alla veneranda età di novantuno anni, hanno trascorso assieme quasi 50 anni collaborando a progetti e pubblicazioni significative, sin dagli →
