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.
Vitra Design Museum, MAK, ISBN-13: 978-3945852118, English, 328 pages, 2017, Germany
Evitando in maniera programmatica le considerevoli novità nel campo del design tecnologico, questo catalogo della esibizione di “Hello, Robot” si basa sul nostro rapporto con la tecnologia autonoma, →
CD + 24 pages booklet – Immediata
Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All è un progetto che è stato realizzato nel 2014 per il quarantesimo anniversario del Synergy Percussion, il più antico e acclamato ensemble australiano →
NYU Press, ISBN:978-1479806201, English, 464 pages, 2017, USA
De Laure e Fink partono con l’ammissione pubblica, in qualche modo coraggiosa, di come il termine “culture jamming” sia contestabile. Essi hanno coerentemente abbracciato la sfida di mettere insieme un’antologia che →
CD + 64 pages booklet – Swarming
Sono tre le lunghe suite – tutte oltre i venti minuti, l’ultima di quasi trenta, accompagnate da un booklet prevalentemente fotografico di 64 pagine, compreso in un elegante artwork cartonato e a →
Sternberg Press, ISBN-13: 978-3956791727, English, 224 pages, 2016, Germany
Questo è un progetto di ricerca e un caso di studio concentrato sull’illustrazione di “oggetti comportamentali” nell’arte e nel design. Tentare di definire con precisione gli oggetti comportamentali è un compito →
LP + 29 pages booklet – Cejero
On Small Differences In Sensation di Eric Frye s’imprime all’ascolto con delicatezza di suoni e puntigliosità nella definizione dei precisi ambiti spazio-auditivi presi in considerazione, quasi a sottolineare pedissequamente il titolo e l’idea →
Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0822362920, English, 256 pages, 2016, USA
I sistemi digitali hanno causato, col tempo, una relazione che può essere considerata molto vicina alla pura “devozione”. Siamo interessati ai rituali ipnotizzanti di cui riempiamo la nostra vita, ma →
CD – Denovali
Dietro il moniker di Ensemble Economique altri non si nasconde che il californiano Brian Pyle, sperimentatore che ricordiamo in coppia con Merrick McKinlay nel progetto Starving Weirdos, artista molto prolifico e comunque all’attivo già dalla scorsa →
Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1501327605, English, 198 pages, 2017, UK
Invertire la funzione di tecnologie specializzate da semplici attrezzi a strumenti è un approccio condiviso dagli inventori passati, da artisti di qualsiasi periodo storico e da maker sperimentali contemporanei. Cathy van →
CD – Crónica
Sarebbe da studiare la connessione tra radiodrammi e musica sperimentale – chi ha qualche anno in più può ricordare bene come questi due ambiti possano vantare una forte relazione – soprattutto adesso che il feticismo dell’offline rimette →
