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.
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262037945, English, 248 pages, 2018, USA
Andersen and Pold have dedicated years to the study and analysis of computer interfaces, particularly through net art, software art and, more recently, the electronic literature scene. →
CD – Sofa
Ingar Zachn, mente creativa a capo della Sofa Records e percussionista norvegese, in Before Nightfall One ha collaborato con altri due esperti musicisti votati a questa specialissima forma musicale, indubbiamente una delle più ataviche espressioni artistiche dagli →
Hatje Cantz, ISBN-13: 978-3775744539, English, 224 pages, 2018, Germany
The complexity and the multi-disciplinarity of the Anthropocene are among the main causes of its still weak cultural and political impact, contrasting an already slightly devastating ecological one. We paradoxically →
CD + book – Aagoo
Per molti compositori contemporanei e soprattutto negli alvei della sperimentazione più tendenziosa e concettuale, dopo la sbornia audio-video tra la fine degli anni novanta e le prime due decadi del Nuovo Millennio, sembra adesso essere →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1517903077, English, 192 pages, 2018, USA
What does Facebook, the social medium with the largest number of users in the world, fear? Mainly one thing: the “mass exodus” from its platform, which would be perpetrated →
CD – Kvitnu
Ripetizioni sintetiche e atmosfere rituali, un po’ cupe e chiesastiche, c’accolgono fin dai primi solchi, facendosi man mano più spaziali, vibranti e cosmiche. Un tremore continuo, come frutto d’una meditazione delirante ed euforica pervade gli spazi, riempiendo →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0059-5, English, 472 pages, 2018, USA
Our senses have been through the most drastic redefinition of their functioning since the introduction of electricity. Touch, indeed, has an historical fame →
CD – MICL
Se si parla di Žibuoklė Martinaitytė il riferimento immediato è a un universo musicale classico, fortemente emozionale e legato ad uno spazio interiore ricco di sfumature e tensioni, fluttuante fra tradizione e modernità, quotidiano e luoghi fisici, →
LP – Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre
Sono due le parti, ben distinte su ognuno dei lati del vinile, divise entrambe in 4 tracce, all’incirca di 5-6 minuti. Iniziamo gli ascolti sul lato A, dove sono raccolte le produzioni →
CD – Touch
Da Yann Novak, artista, compositore e curatore che abbiamo più volte segnalato su etichette quali Murmur, Hibernate ed Estuary – fra quelle che ci sovvengono – e che in passato ha pubblicato anche per la sua →
