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.
Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN: 978-1474280457, LINGUA, 310 pages, 2020, USA
In literature, small publishers embody freedom of expression and the possibility to explore forms and content free from commercial pressure. In music, this role has been taken →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Il compositore Hannes Seidl e il media artist Daniel Kötter collaborano oramai da poco più d’una decade e, dopo essersi dedicati in passato a performance musicali – prima sul tema delle opere d’arte e del tempo libero, →
Ediciones Uniandes, ISBN: 9789587749533, Spanish, 264 pages, 2020, Colombia
Dear Spanish-speaking friends, in spite of the long delay, it is very gratifying and honoring for me to publicly announce the Spanish edition of the book “Impresión →
McIntosh Gallery, ISBN: 978-0771431425, English, 84 pages, 2020, Canada
Early computer art, especially that pre-personal computers, is often seen as a simple and primitive collection of experiments that primarily tested the technical possibilities of the →
LP – Dialogo
Fra le storiche uscite della Cramps, etichetta italiana fondata nei primi anni settanta, focalizzata principalmente sulla musica progressiva ma attiva anche sul versante di una ancora acerba scena contemporanea, non poteva certo sfuggire al fine d’una auspicabile →
Punctum Books, ISBN: 978-1953035301, English, 486 pages, 2021, USA
If you want to compile a coherent anthology of texts on anonymity, the question of authorship of the individual chapters arises. To encourage collective (and thus anonymous) →
CD – Shelter Press
La lunga suite, concentrata in un’unica traccia di quasi quaranta minuti, che dà vita a Perceptual Geography, un progetto musicale di Thomas Ankersmit edito da Shelter Press, è stata ideata per essere utilizzata in performance dal →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-1517909765, English, 256 pages, 2022, USA
“Speech synthesis”, as it was called in the early days of personal computing, is now an everyday experience for those using vocal assistants with smartphones →
LP – Staalplaat
386 DX è indubbiamente uno dei progetti più ammirati di Alexei Shulgin, uno dei “net.art heroes”, come venivano definiti negli anni 2000, autore di opere seminali e testi storici fra cui il celebre “Introduction to net.art” insieme a →
Valiz, ISBN: 978-9492095817, English, 552 pages, 2021, The Netherlands
This book is a 360-degree tour of the role of the graphic designer and the recognition of their specific weight in communication. The book is divided into →
