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.
Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0691155814, 278 pages, 2012, English, USA
Smantellando la quasi religiosa credenza che un’orientata tecnologia di sicurezza possa salvare le nostre vite, questo libro va apertamente contro tutti i dogmi coniati dopo l’undici settembre e le conseguenti →
CD – Denovali
Il violoncellista e sperimentatore inglese, adesso di base a Berlino e in forza alla Denovali, è ben conosciuto nelle enclave neo-classiciste contemporanee per i suoi lavori, sempre densi di partiture elegiache e orchestrali giustapposizioni (lo ricordiamo ultimamente →
Edit by Runningonair – CDr & Data-DVD – 2012, English
Joe Evans crea musica che inizia con la matematica, cercando una correlazione in natura e traducendo il tutto in strutture sonore. A volte le sue elaborate sperimentazioni musicali sono condotte →
edited by: Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer – PFAU Verlag, ISBN 978-3897274877, 416 pages, 2012, German, English
C’è stata una lunga tradizione per cercare di reprimere e metter fine alla musica sperimentale in Europa centrale ed orientale →
edited by Dieter Daniels, Inke Arns, Spector Books, ISBN: 9783940064417, 296 pages, 2012, German, English
Ci sono state innumerevoli celebrazioni del centenario della nascita di John Cage nel mondo, eventi che hanno coinvolto diverse generazioni, ammaliate da uno degli artisti →
CD – Denovali
Piano Interrupted è il moniker che il pianista e compositore londinese Tom Hodge e il manipolatore elettronico transalpino Franz Kiemann hanno scelto per questo loro progetto collaborativo, “Two By Four”, una pièce suddivisa in nove distinte partiture →
CD – Firework Edition
Registrazioni effettuate a Losanna, in Svizzera, in un’antica scuola di anatomia, oggi bibilioteca, quelle poi montate dallo stesso Francisco Meirino allo Shiver Mobile studio fra Novembre e Dicembre del 2011. Emissioni auditive esitanti, piuttosto cupe e →
CD – Copy For Your
Un nuovo album solista ci arriva a firma Joe Panzner. È il primo dal 2006, dopo “Polished Rocks” – CD-R su Gameboy – e senza considerare la precedente uscita, “False Positives” su Homophoni. “Clearing Pollutied” →
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 →
