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.
Errant Bodies Press, ISBN-13: 978-0982743942, 298 pages, 2012, English
La teoria della sound art spesso trova i suoi riferimenti nel regno della musica. Ma ci sono altre possibilità: concetti o riferimenti che arrivano dalla letteratura, dal teatro, dal cinema o →
Lo
scienziato britannico Alan Turing è stato un matematico, un logico
ed un esperto di crittografia, oltre ad essere considerato uno dei
più importanti studiosi e ricercatori nel campo della matematica
applicata e della seminale informatica. Lo scienziato diventò noto
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CD + DVD, Hinterzimmer
Virgil Moorefield è un compositore ed artista intermedia assai apprezzato per le sue performance acustiche, con suoni anche processati e visual. Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound è da annoverare proprio a questo →
edition mono/monochrom, Vienna, ISBN-13: 978-3902796134, 304 pages, 2013, German, English
Nel 1993 Johannes Grenzfurthner pubblicò su Fidonet circa la sua intenzione di dar inizio ad una fanzine specializzata in politica, rete e cultura pop e Franz Ablinger rispose quasi immediatamente. →
I dispositivi digitali supportano la letteratura portatile a vari livelli ma questo coinvolge principalmente bestseller e letteratura popolare, escludendo la maggior parte del tempo la poesia. Autonomous Parapoetic Device (APxD mkII), opera d’arte di Allison Parrish, consiste in una macchina →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Helgoland in tedesco significa letteralmente “terra sacra” ed è un’isola situata a sud-est del Mare del Nord, appartenuta in principio alla Danimarca e successivamente al Regno Unito, prima d’essere ceduta alla Germania nel 1890, in virtù d’un trattato →
Pogus, CD+DVD, ASIN: B00BCNWPIY, 2013
Brian Chase, il batterista della band Yeah-Yeah-Yeahs, non a caso ha così titolato questa uscita, Drums & Drones, un progetto che esplora il tipo di droni prodotti da tamburi sintonizzati a specifici livelli di pitch, →
Il sintetizzatore oscillografico di Kyle E Evans, il de/Rastra, consiste in un televisore a tubo catodico modificato e collegato a un computer che esegue una patch MAX/MSP per abilitare una discreta connessione dei segnali audio e video. La struttura del →
CD + Booklet – Denovali
Dietro il moniker di The Eye Of Time altri non si nasconde che Marc Euvrie, musicista transalpino in passato coinvolto nelle scene punk e hardcore, che ricordiamo nelle band Aussitôt Mort, Karysun e Sugartown Cabaret. →
The MIT Press, USA, ISBN-13: 978-0262018517, 464 pages, 2013, English
Erkki Huhtamo è un archeologo dei media universalmente piuttosto noto. Questo libro è il risultato di una ricerca estensiva (fatta negli ultimi venticinque anni) attraverso le “vedute significative”, enormi rotoli →
