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.
Onomatopee, ISBN-13: 978-9491677229, English,, 270 pages, 2014, The Netherlands
Le mappe di Bureau d’Etudes sono state riconosciute non solo come opere d’arte affascinanti ma anche come specchi di sistemi di potere che sono stati svelati attraverso un utilizzo intelligente e →
2CD – Post Concrete
Arriva a marchio Post Concrete un doppio cd, a tutti gli effetti un’indagine alquanto esaustiva sulla sound art cinese, che scaturisce da Revolution Per Minute, una mostra tenutasi alla Colgate University di Hamilton, New York, evento →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-0816695935, English, 328 pages, 2014, USA
Quando la “globalizzazione” è veramente cominciata? Scavando attraverso la storia sarebbe stato facile tornare indietro di qualche decennio, quando Internet stava iniziando a diventare così pervasiva. Ma esattamente quanto →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Uscendo nove anni dopo Grist (Ad Noiseam adn70, 2006), un album che ha dato origine a intensi spettacoli dal vivo, procurando a Drumcorps una notevole base di fan, Falling Forward non poteva certo deludere, seppure dopo →
Link Editions/La Panacée, ISBN-13: 978-1291988925, English, 184 pages, 2014, Italy
Possiamo contare su libri stampati quasi all’infinito: è una specifica qualità della pagina stampata ad essere in contrasto con l’instabilità del mondo online. Questo libro è edito da Annie Abrahams →
Cassette – Helen Scarsdale Agency
Sequenze elettroacustiche decisamente ruvide sono articolate da Richard Garet in 60′ Cassette, un’uscita che la The Helen Scarsdale Agency – etichetta che ricordiamo per rappresentare artisti del calibro di Jim Haynes, Coelacanth, Stilluppsteypa e →
Intellect Ltd, ISBN-13: 978-1841506630, English, 442 pages, 2014, UK
I video artisti degli anni eroici (principalmente anni sessanta e settanta) sarebbero ai giorni d’oggi giustamente considerati “makers”. Le loro varie forme di “hacking” con apparati video analogici di ogni genere, →
LP – Nordic Sound Art / Kuno
Il catalogo della mostra per il Nordic Sound Art graduate show 2015 – supportato dal Kuno Publication Fund – è presentato con un’uscita in vinile rappresentativa del lavoro effettuato nel programma di educazione →
I. B. Tauris, ISBN-13: 978-1784530358, English, 360 pages, 2014, UK
Questa antologia di testi colma finalmente una delle lacune – per lo più di matrice occidentale – nell’analisi delle pratiche artistiche, sociali e politiche dei media. Ci sono voluti due →
LP – Gruenrekorder
R. Schwarz in The Scale Of Things – contando su pattern assai evocativi ed avvolgenti, forte delle esplorazioni in ambienti naturali, cercando suggestioni da seguire ma senza alcuna intenzione musicale preorganizzata – ha dato vita infine a →
