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 76, What is real? + extra: a Destructive Circuits by Dani Ploeger . Abbonati ora!
Issue #76, 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X
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EMAP / Impakt, English, 186 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
ADVICE WELL TAKEN is an artist book of the kind that only enlightened tech-culture artists can make. It fits seamlessly into what Dasha Ilina (interviewed in issue #66) →
LP – Raster
Cicli disuguali alla ricerca di esperienze sincroniche: nel suo nuovo album Pounding, Frank Bretschneider racconta di distanza, convergenza e congruenza in un flusso continuo e mutevole di eventi. L’esplorazione del suono di questo artista – musicista e →
The mysteries of quantum physics and quantum computing have not yet permeated our society because they still remain a black box for the promised revolution in computation. Against this backdrop, Mike Rijnierse constructs a double-sided mirror in Quantum Mirror with →
Bloomsbury, ISBN 979-8765109205, English, 248 pages, 2024, USA
Some people are lucky enough to share their career path with people who, over time, prove to be pivotal in their respective fields. Ben Neill, in his long →
CD – Huddersfield Contemporary
Ernest Berk è stato un artista poliedrico, fuggito dalla Germania nazista negli anni ’30 e stabilitosi a Londra, dove trascorse la maggior parte della sua carriera, capace di spaziare tra diverse discipline come la composizione musicale, →
“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. →
m&m paper, ISBN 978-8797491508, English, 240 pages, 2023, Denmark
This is the monograph of Danish artist Mogens Jacobsen, who has explored art using a wide variety of media since the early 2000s. The concept of ‘apparatus’, mainly →
usb – merles
Jocelyn Robert, sperimentatore multidisciplinare canadese, si lascia guidare dalle suggestioni offerte da Audiometaphor e Calliope, due programmi software sviluppati da Metacreation Lab. Il primo – in particolare – un sistema generativo basato su prompt per la creazione →
Ben Grosser has developed a personal narrative to turn the psychological traps of social media upside down, using a universal visual language that targets its core mechanisms. In Stuck in the Scroll, he does this again, revealing in real time →
Rojal Förlag, ISBN 978-9198492736, English, 150 pages, 2024, Sweden
The seminal concept of dead media, popularised by Bruce Sterling in the 1990s with a project that compiled a remarkable collection of descriptions and histories of obsolete →
CD – empreintes DIGITALes
Uno dei più iconici sintetizzatori modulari degli anni ’70, il Buchla 200, continua ai giorni nostri ad attrarre musicisti, sound designer e sperimentatori provenienti anche da differenti ambiti, come se il tempo compreso fra le avanguardie →
Delay was integrated as a symbolic element in early net art and is now still very much present, an unnoticed element in streaming. The process of unveiling, with the physicality of the global internet, has already been undertaken by various →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517917418, English, 368 pages, 2024, USA
Machine and Sovereignty is the third volume of a planned trilogy, the initial offering from Yuk Hui being Recursivity and Contingency (2019), which was →
LP – Amorfik Artifacts
Di origine ucraina ma oramai residente a Madrid, Iury Lech può vantare un primo album già nel lontano 1989 – per Hyades, storica etichetta indipendente spagnola – pioniere a suo modo di una scena elettronica e →
