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 – Fang Bomb
Svetta rauca una voce, inizia così in “Scotona Song” un obliquo siparietto cantato, dagli accenti walkie-talkie e con organo ronzante, nenia appena caratterizzata da minimali ma espressivi elementi →
DVD – Winds Measure
Vecchie slide Kodachrome, casualmente ritrovate, un set up digitale poi neanche troppo complicato, comprensivo di laptop e controller midi, un proiettore video e due diaproiettori, completati dai rispettivi dimmer →
CD Anty-Copyright
Siamo sinceri, approcciando ogni nuova uscita dell’Anty-Copyright crew si è sempre preparati ad aspettarsi qualcosa d’inconsueto, radicale e oltranzista, pure se parlando di audio art ed experimental music ciò non →
CD – Domizil
Sonorità sintetiche, avvolgenti, crude, siderali ed algide, quelle agite da Martin Neukom in “Studien 5-7”, che soltanto successivamente scopriamo essere state composte tra il 1992 ed il 1996 utilizzando →
CD – Ahornfelder
È un suono suggestivo e grave quello di “Città Utopica”, un progetto di Burkhard Friedrich nato in guisa d’un installazione ambientale arricchita da elementi anche visuali, produzione percorsa da intensi droni, digitali →
CD- Kvitnu
Otto musicisti ucraini sono chiamati per interpretare altrettante composizioni di Karol Szymanowski, uno dei più importanti autori europei della prima metà del XX secolo, protagonista del proprio tempo, celeberrimo compositore e →
CD – Brut Claire
La Manufacture de Chaussures a Bordeaux è una vecchia fabbrica di scarpe degli anni trenta che a partire dal 1998 è stata trasformata in TNT, uno spazio →
CD – Oral
Ideate da Martin Tétreault e realizzate da Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander MacSween e Nancy Tobin, pur nello specifico cipiglio ultra-minimalista e concettuale qui esibito, una tal summa d’elaborazioni →
Sub Rosa
Thanasis Kaproulias, utilizzando il moniker Novi_sad s’interroga sulla struttura intima delle sonorità ambientali, acquisite a partire da un’ipotetica “integrità scultorea”, articolazioni auditive la cui essenza sembra precedere l’esperienza d’ascolto, pur assecondando →
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
“Mort Aux Vaches” gridavano gli anarco-communardi rivolgendosi contro ogni uniforme e potere: ancora quegli echi riecheggiano nelle scelte altrettanto “fuori dal coro” della Staalplaat, etichetta indipendente olandese →
