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 – Futura Resistenza
Suzana Lașcu, Robert Kroos e Reinier van Houdt hanno lavorato su registrazioni di vecchi flipper – in gran parte provenienti dal museo di Rotterdam, dedicato a questo passatempo pre-internet – trasformandole nella base di trame musicali →
CD – UNRec
Anouck Genthon e Lionel Marchetti elaborano con Suite blanche una composizione che pone al centro della propria struttura lo spazio, inteso non come semplice contenitore sonoro ma come elemento attivo del processo musicale. La risposta acustica, determinata →
Spector Books, book, ISBN 978-3959058933, English, 240 pages, 2025, Germany
There is a growing cultural interest in the non-visual, in stark contrast to the endless screens that convey the past and present at any →
2CD – Penultimate Press
Utilizzando l’acronimo C.D., questo progetto richiama chiaramente Colonia Dignidad, l’insediamento di una setta evangelica tedesca accusata per abusi su minori in Germania e trasferitasi in Cile nel 1961 per continuare liberamente le proprie attività d’indottrinamento. All’apparenza, →
CD + 16p. Booklet – EKarlrecords
Wolfgang Seidel, nato nella grigia e cupa Berlino del dopoguerra, nel 1949, è stato batterista nei Ton Steine Scherben – seminale rock band anarchica tedesca – e uno degli animatori dello Zodiak Free Arts →
Bloomsbury, book, ISBN 979-8765125816, English, 240 pages, 2025, UK
Poetics of Listening offers a genuinely intriguing exploration of listening as a relational practice. Among the few definitions LaBelle provides, listening gathers the senses and is ‘radically →
CD – Moving Furniture
Accompagnato da un elegante artwork della stessa artista, compositrice e performer olandese avvezza a sperimentazioni elettroacustiche, elettroniche ed improvvisazioni per strumenti percussivi, in Undertones Fani Konstantinidou esplora la relazione tra spazio, suono e registrazioni ambientali, dando →
CD – Crónica
Tra le molteplici direzioni che oggi può assumere la pratica del field recording, trova spazio anche quella di Kunrad: un modo di operare che celebra i piccoli suoni, spesso trascurati e nascosti, accentuandone la presenza ma anche →
University of California Press, ISBN 978-0520409774, LINGUA, 424 pages, 2025, USA
The Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), emerging from the advent of musique concrète and later electroacoustic music, represents a pivotal moment in the history of →
CD – Unexplained Sounds Group
Dalla Unexplained Sounds Group, etichetta napoletana sperimentale – o come loro stessi si autodefiniscono, “rete globale di disorientamento aurale” – un progetto discografico ideato e curato da Raffaele Pezzella, producer attivo anche sotto lo pseudonimo →
