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 – Baskaru
Stefano De Santis, in arte Urkuma (termine che nell’antico dialetto salentino, terra nella quale questo artista stabilmente risiede, indica uno scompenso, un travagliato stato d’incertezza fisica) ci regala →
CD – Staubgold
Elaborazioni rarefatte, fascinose, è l’inizio d’un nuovo corso pare, per Rafael Toral, che mette da parte chitarre, pedali ed effetti utilizzando adesso un nuovo sistema musicale che incorpora elementi →
CD – Mousikelab
Album di debutto per il trio fiorentino composto da Andrea Brancali, Andrea Masi e Francesco Bigazzi, in arte Ether, ensemble in bilico tra raffinate sequenze d’elettronica minimale, glitch ed →
CD – I Dischi Di Angelica
Loops di lunghezza differente gestiti mediante computer su una tonalità d’impianto di 432Hz, una scelta consapevole d’accordi, mutuata dalla tradizione classica ed espressa in maniera →
CD – Xperimental Intermedia
Sembra essere attratto dall’assenza, dal celare e da una sorta di stasi propositiva, l’autore canadese Matt Rogalsky, nel vortice creativo in bilico fra musica iterativa, droni ed →
CD – Smekkleysa / Audioglobe
Anche questa Bjork (parliamo per l’appunto di Kristin Bjork Kristjansdottir) viene dall’Islanda. Dopo precedenti esperienze nel collettivo Kitchen Motors e nella Big Band Brútal adesso si →
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
CD – Expanding Records
Atipico artista multimediale Orla Wren, con il suo camper in giro per la Scozia, componendo musica delicatissima, vendendo foto di piante e insetti, macroscatti di vita organica da →
CD – Crónica
Un flusso costante nell’esercizio certo non banale modulato da digitali astrazioni che sono relazionate a una voce: effusioni trattenute, scorrere del tempo, circolare del sangue, ondeggiare e derivare dai →
