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 – Kafkagarden
Amabilmente suddiviso fra incisioni di taglio classico contemporaneo, experimental bedroom electronica e sequenze più cinematiche dall’appeal vintage, in “Library Music 1” Marcus Fjellström trae ispirazione dalle classiche vecchie librerie →
CD – Dekorder
Registrato ad Oslo fra il 2006 e il 2010, poi mixato a Berlino, “Shadow Of Events” è il terzo album solista per Alexander Rishaug, sound-artista avvezzo all’utilizzo di →
CD – Ohm Resistance,
Merzbow, ovvero Masami Akita, non ha bisogno di troppe presentazioni, pioniere del suono “rumorista”, ben conosciuto nelle scene internazionali sperimentali per la sua attitudine cruda, “free jazz” ed anche colta, oltre →
CD – Mutable
Nata come filiazione dell’omonimo festival biennale nella Repubblica Ceca, la Ostravská Banda – con i suoi venti musicisti – può contare sulla direzione di Peter Kotik, un veterano dell’orchestrazione →
CD – Pogus
Seconda uscita su Pogus per il compositore sudafricano ma di nascita greca Dimitri Voudouris, artista mai prevedibile nelle molte opzioni messe in gioco, sempre focalizzato sulla natura psico-acustica dei fenomeni auditivi, attento →
CD – Pingipung
Sven Kacirek è un giovane musicista diplomatosi in percussioni e marimba al conservatorio di Amburgo, autore ispirato dai suoni e dalle molte sfaccettature della musica africana. Nelle sue →
CD – Dragon’s Eye
Da una serie d’incontri fatti da Mark e Laura Cetilia allo studio di Stephen Vitiello, in Virginia, fra il maggio del 2009 e il gennaio del →
CD – 12k
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden e Stephen Vitiello, hanno dato vita assieme ad un interessante progetto live registrato nella Trinity Cathedral di San Jose, California. La performance audio, →
CD – Minus Habens
“Yug ” è un interessante progetto che scaturisce da un incontro del compositore elettronico Paolo Bragaglia, associatosi in simbiosi creativa al valente musicista italoamericano Matteo Ramon Arevalos, entrambi accomunati →
CD – Die Schachtel
Sintetizzatori analogici, un organo Farfisa, giradischi, un registratore a nastro, un televisore a tubo catodico: tutte “apparecchiature” che non hanno ragione d’esistere senza elettricità, il più significativo e →
