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.
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816676156, Language: English, 312 pages, USA, 2011
Remixthebook è stato definito dal suo autore Mark Amerika come “un gioco speculativo”. Presentato come un libro, la sua unicità risiede nell’essere un’interconnessione tra concetti, esperienze, casi →
CD – Kvitnu
Appena estratto il cd dall’elegantissimo “special cardboard double sleeve”, una custodia esagonale con dei ricami brillantati, subito al primo ascolto intuiamo quanto anche il contenuto musicale sia altrettanto prezioso. Kateryna Zavoloka è certo un’artista molto conosciuta ed →
CD – Winds Measure
Organizzato nelle forme d’una trasversale field recording orchestra il combo composto da Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen e Civyiu Kkliu, in “Phonography Meeting” organizza il progetto prevedendo una stesura di registrazioni non processate e →
CD – Mutable
Sono variazioni pianistiche assai fluenti, confortevoli e appassionanti quelle di JB Floyd nelle partiture iniziali di questo “Another Time And Place”, accordi dolci ma ritmici, dalle molte melodie e con influenze lievemente jazzy. Le strutture in “Solos →
CD – Flux
Ricordavamo Frank Rothkamm per il suo “estro multiforme, privo di pregiudizi e barriere di genere”, per una sorta di muzak ibridata capace di mettere in relazione “tradizione classica e cultura rock, intrecciando anche tensioni computer music, cut-upping →
CD – Agxivatein
Un paio di cuffie, una coppia d’altoparlanti attivi, un dvd player, una cornice digitale con la memory stick usb, il tutto realizzato in luoghi specifici, attraverso una serie di perfomance, in uno spazio sonoro ogni volta messo →
CD – Touch
Due distinte composizioni completano questa uscita di Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson sotto le insegne della celeberrima Touch. Subito c’introduce all’intero progetto la prima traccia, realizzazione del solo Chris Watson, “Midnight at the Oasis” si staglia →
CD – Room40
Attivo dalla seconda metà degli anni novanta, Ralph Steinbrüchel, sperimentatore svizzero che già abbiamo avuto modo d’apprezzare su Domizil, 12k, and/OAR, Line e Non Visual Objects, torna a pubblicare su Room40, etichetta sotto le cui insegne avevano →
CD – Evil Rabbit
Eclettico musicista contemporaneo, flautista e compositore, professore al Conservatorio di Utrecht, jazzista e improvvisatore, Mark Alban Lotz certo non si fa mancare le occasioni per organizzare session le più estemporanee possibili. La sua carriera è costellata →
3″ Mini-CDR – Electroton
Edizione limitata (di sole 150 copie) e in mini-cdr 3 pollici per il sound-artista Higuchi Eitaro, sperimentatore di base a Kyoto che sotto il moniker di Dagshenma sforna la sua prima release per Electroton, etichetta guidata →
