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.
Valiz, ISBN-13: 978-9492095268, English, 304 pages, 2017, The Netherlands
Fate and the notion of archive is at the core of an increasingly visible debate, triggered by art institutions’ involvement in the global digitalisation of culture. The digital →
CD – Monotype Records
A marchio Monotype Records (esattamente è la loro uscita numero novantatré) Christian Kobi raccoglie per l’occasione tre composizioni al sax tenore solo, una al sax soprano e per la quinta (quella centrale nell’album) invita Wakana Ikeda →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190226992, English, 712 pages, 2018, UK
Even arguably stemming from concepts like “generative” and “automatic” what is exactly meant by “Algorithmic Music” ? The two editors of this sumptuous anthology give a specific definition: →
CD – Kontrans
A marchio Kontrans arrivano Tomomi Adachi e Jaap Blonk, sperimentatori improvvissativi straordinari, dei veri specialisti nell’interazione voci ed elettroniche. È proprio il musicista giapponese, in un video del 2013, a renderci edotti della sua operatività in musica, →
Univocal/University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1937561697, English, 100 pages, 2016, USA
Il rapporto tra il mondo della musica e quello della letteratura è stretto, grazie ai suoni condivisi, a qualche tipo di struttura, e soprattutto all’immaginario che →
LP – Auf Abwegen
Tropic viene presentato da O Yuki Conjugate – un gruppo post industrial/ambient fondato a Nottingham nel 1982 – ricordandoci che si tratta di una raccolta di brani dimenticati, in parte incompleti e inediti, registrati a Londra →
Index, Index 046, German, 2016, Austria
Osservando altre persone che guardano lo schermo del loro smartphone per ore, ci chiediamo cosa dovrebbe rappresentare un’impresa culturale simile a quella che la videoarte ha rappresentato negli anni Settanta per la →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Marc Namblard non è nuovo ad approcci audio-naturalisti – basti ricordare le sue precedenti uscite su etichette quali Nashvert, Ouïe-Dire e Kalerne – e a dire il vero anche all’esplorazione di spazi open-air nella Guyana Francese, che →
Cassette – Crónica
L’australiano Tarab e il cecoslovacco Artificial Memory Trace – aka Slavek Kwi, adesso residente in Irlanda – hanno prima iniziato a scambiarsi materiali audio e oggetti risonanti, singole sculture e piccoli marchingegni auto-costruiti. Da qui si è →
Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0822369400, English, 216 pages, 2017, USA
“A causa di un’intensificazione dei segnali elettronici […] la percezione dell’altro e del suo corpo viene rimodellata” afferma il filosofo italiano Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, e il rimodellamento di questa →
