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
Basato sull’omonimo racconto di Gustave Flaubert, Un Cœur Simple nelle evoluzioni quietiste, dilatate ed oniriche di Stephan Mathieu in maniera abbastanza speculare all’estetica flaubertiana del testo tiene fede ad una narrazione oscura, fervente, intrisa da ambientazioni desolate →
Bloomsbury, ISBN-13: 978-1441122131, 336 pages, 2013, English, UK
Attualmente assistiamo a una prolifica produzione di teoria a proposito di musica sperimentale (specialmente nelle sue ramificazioni più noisy) e in questo libro, in una possibile estetica unificante, è esibito uno sforzo →
CD – Hidden Shoal
Avvolgenti sequenze auditive quelle dipanate da Matt Rösner e Adam Trainer, aka Gilded, musicisti australiani avvezzi a sperimentalismi ambient piuttosto melodici, dalle texture sognanti e rarefatte. È “Velar” la prima traccia del progetto, incisione dove →
“Mouth Factory” è un’opera costituita da una serie di macchine utensili: un trapano, un tornio, un estrusore, una macchina per il rotostampaggio ed una per la termoformatura. La particolarità di queste apparecchiature è che sono azionate da movimenti della bocca →
3CD Wodden Box – Record Label Records / Cataclyst
In guisa d’una confezione composta da tre CD contenuti in un box in legno appositamente realizzato e con incluse 35 art card con fotografie originali, disegni, collage e dipinti di →
CD – Nur/Nicht/Nur
Questo progetto musicale per solo piano è stato elaborato da Florian Wittenburg fra il 2000 e il 2009 organizzando in “Patterns in a Chromatic Field” un chiaro e riverente omaggio a Morton Feldman, sperimentatore nordamericano assai apprezzato →
USB Stick + Card Game – Shackle
Anne La Berge è una talentuosa flautista e sperimentatrice free form, Robert van Heumen un valente laptop producer e performer (che ricordiamo per le sue uscite su Creative Sources ed Evil Rabbit), insieme →
Edited by Maud Chavaillon and eRikm, France, book+CD, ISBN: 9782953965032, 176 pages, 2013, English, French
eRikm è un sound artista transalpino che coniuga suoni e visual art in modo molto diretto e naturale, efficacemente esprimendo nelle sue opere quello che →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Ritorna Igorrr su Ad Noiseam perfezionando – ma forse non è questo il vocabolo adatto da utilizzare per illustrare il recupero di tali estreme, ellittiche, urticanti giustapposizioni sonore – l’oramai consolidata pratica di far collidere →
CD – Line
Esordisce sulla label di Richard Chartier, la LINE [SEGMENTS], Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka AGF, che con “Source Voice” sembra riprendere le fila d’una lunga sperimentazione introspettiva, tornando a modulare emissioni vocali in guisa d’uno strumento personalissimo, politico e →
