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 – 901
Il sinogramma 間 (Ma), unità minima di significato utilizzata anche nella scrittura giapponese, estrinseca un concetto decisivo per numerose pratiche artistiche e filosofiche, riferendosi alle nozioni di spazio e di tempo tra le cose, focalizzando l’attenzione sul →
CD – Raster
Non c’è futuro senza lacrime e qui il nucleo centrale del progetto è parte appunto della nostra contemporaneità estrema, un concentrato di elaborazioni sensoriali in forma di ibridi umano-macchinici. Uwe Schmidt sotto il moniker Atom™ non è →
CD – Wandelweiser
La parola inglese “tracery”, “flechtwerk” in tedesco, in italiano potrebbe essere tradotta in molte differenti maniere, innanzitutto “intreccio” che ben s’adatta all’idea di una musica elettronica molto manipolata, ma anche “ricamo”, o “intaglio”, o “disegno”, che testimonierebbero →
CD – Noton
Quarta e penultima uscita per Alva Noto della serie Xerrox, partita nel 2007, un progetto che nell’insieme è basato sul concetto di replica digitale del materiale di partenza, sulla manipolazione dei dati, utilizzando un metodo di →
“If only these walls could talk” we use to say when we are denied the acknowledgement of a situated past, and there’s nobody around who can support it. This concept seems admirably rendered by Nadav Assor in “Stone Tape”, a →
Cassette – Crónica
Boa-Língua, in portoghese letteralmente “buona lingua”, è un’espressione spesso usata in opposizione a “lingua cattiva”, cioè “chiacchiere”. Si allude evidentemente a qualcosa che ha una sua intima e quotidiana verità. Siria ha utilizzato per questo secondo album →
Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder, ISBN-13: 978-8409128617, English, 264 pages, 2019, Germany
It is perhaps surprising that experimental music labels have recently produced some of the most interesting experiments in print publishing. Maybe the need →
2 x 10″ vinyl – Arbitrary
Mads Emil Nielsen, musicista e compositore che ha base a Copenhagen, è avvezzo a un tipo d’operatività piuttosto ibrida, fatta di fonti sonore spesso combinate con calibrati campioni percussivi e orchestrali, di solito integrando →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Nell’ambito della ventesima edizione del Kamuna, evento musicale oramai ricorrente nella programmazione del Karlsruhe Museum, il 4 agosto 2018 si sono svolte tre differenti in-situ performances. Le sedi scelte sono state la sala progetti ßpace, lo →
CD – Unsounds
In principio c’è stata l’idea di un’ installazione sonora interattiva, The Body Imitates the Landscape, opera che è stata sviluppata dall’artista Adi Hollander organizzando un complesso di elementi che simulativi degli impianti strutturali ed estetici tipici dei →
