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.
LP – Urbsounds
Ventesimo anniversario per il collettivo DIY di Bratislava che fa capo alla Urbsounds, etichetta che non ha mai dimenticato il suo passato punk, nell’accezione più politica del termine, che è quella di riflettere la parte più desolata →
Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0253054494, English, 280 pages, 2022, USA
The mental space of video games is a specific one. It is a virtual world in which we immerse ourselves, participate in its narrative and act →
7″ – Staalplaat
Lloyd Dunn, che per le sue uscite discografiche oramai dal 2009 utilizza l’alias Nula.cc, licenzia per Staalplaat un 7” con solo suoni di cicale e campane. Non vi sono altri apporti sonori se non sparute voci sul →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-151790218, English, 328 pages, 2022, USA
It has become increasingly difficult to define what a laboratory is as the term is applied to any concentrated set of activities in a →
CD – Raster
L’algoritmo che ha generato le sequenze musicali e anche il testo di presentazione di Neuer Mensch è stato generato da un’altra entità automatica, x1n, ulteriore implementazione di un “nuovo umano”, connessione e metamorfosi fra ancora organico e →
Onassis Foundation, ISBN 978-6188536180, English, 536 pages, 2022, Greece
In the current boom of books on the impact of AI, led by the urgency to better understand a rapid and pervasive shift in culture and human →
Cassette – CCSS++
La maniera nella quale il concetto di tooling è sviluppato all’interno di quelle pratiche artistiche che sono sostenute proprio dalla costruzione di adeguati strumenti è il complesso oggetto di questa release di Diogo Tudela, un media-artista →
transcript, ISBN 978-3837663303, English, 212 pages, 2022, Germany
In this dissertation project, Rémy Bocquillon attempts to establish ‘sonic sociology’, whereby sound is regarded as an instrument of sociology rather than its object. Bocquillon develops a →
2LP – Holidays
Si può suonare un archivio digitale in costante aggiornamento? È quello che fa Alessandro Bosetti, raccogliendo materiali sonori da decine d’incontri individuali e sessioni di registrazione, apporti che appena conferiti vengono resi anonimi per poi essere →
Exonemo, ISBN 978-1088025581, English, 798 pages, 2022, Japan
The Internet Yami-Ichi has gained popularity and recognition over the years. The main idea behind it is to organise a physical market for goods and services from the →
