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 – Om Kult
Quando certe sonorità rimandano dichiaratamente a “incantesimi psicomagici e istruzioni yoga occulte”, ma allo stesso tempo si rifanno anche a pratiche d’esoterici sottogeneri elettronici e noisy, non si può non pensare a William Seward Burroughs, che →
Christoph Merian Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3856168674, German, English, 108 pages, 2018, USA
There’s an unsolved dilemma among art historians: is there a sense in looking for connections among artists living in the same country, and especially using the same →
CD – XI Records
Sono differenze timbriche e microtonali quelle che emergono dalle prime due composizioni, “G” e “note, rest”, rispettivamente di circa cinque e sette minuti, brani che hanno come protagonista il fagotto, potenziato dall’utilizzo di microfoni nel dar →
Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 979-1501305450, English, 272 pages, 2018, UK
The relationship between the body and the listening of sounds definitely can’t anymore be reduced simply to our ears. Holger Schulze in this book argues the extensions of the →
cassette – Crónica
Per i primissimi cultori delle sperimentazioni contemporanee – parliamo ovviamente della musica d’avanguardia sviluppatasi nella seconda metà del Novecento – il nome di Pauline Oliveros è quello d’una figura chiave non solo per l’utilizzo non convenzionale del →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262038904, English, 288 pages, 2018, USA
We might attempt to place Spotify historically as the most recent milestone in the universal digitalisation of music after Napster, iTunes and the iPod/iPhone. But the major shift with →
LP – Gruenrekorder
Nel novero delle estetiche retrofuture è sicuramente da menzionare questo Sounds of the Projection Box, un atto di riverenza per le tecnologie d’antan che si deve a Michael Lightborne, artista e Associate Professor al Department of Film →
Strange Attractor Press, ISBN-13: 978-1907222665, English, 264 pages, 2018, UK
There seems to be a consistent interest over the last decade in “hauntology” (as Derrida called it) and media over time, periodically re-emerging in art: “Awake Are →
CD – Opa Loka
Bart van Dongen & Richard van Kruysdijk, ben oltre la specifica tradizione contemporanea del piano preparato, operano oggi dando vita a una coerente e ancora musicalissima collaborazione, utilizzando quello che sicuramente è il più classico fra →
Riverside Architectural Press, ISBN-13: 978-1988366098, English, 433 pages, 2018, UK
This anthology of papers revolves around the relationship between the philosophical concept of ’techné’ (“the principles or methods employed in making something or attaining an objective”) and →
