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 – Crónica
Molteplici feedback, strati di rumore e di suoni trovati subiscono svariati passaggi venendo modificati da una serie di unità di ritardo digitale stereo i cui parametri (delay time, reverse, freeze, etc.) sono manipolati in tempo reale tramite →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517912116, English, 280 pages, 2023, USA
Although we attach enormous importance to sight, as humans we are very limited, as we can perceive less than one per cent of the entire →
Nel suo nuovo progetto Terra Xenobiotica l’artista Saša Spačal esplora la vita del suolo situato in prossimità degli aeroporti. L’installazione si compone di due parti. Il film “Holding Patterns”, scritto in collaborazione con la teorica Alison Sperling, descrive uno scenario →
3CD Boxset + Booklet – 901 Editions
Immaginate un set apparentemente caotico con quattro musicisti improvviasativi e tavoli affastellati da mixer, effettiere, contenitori in acciaio, strumenti a corda e microfoni di differenti tipologie, insieme a svariati altri oggetti →
The Eriskay Connection, ISBN 978-9492051998, English, 108 pages, 2023, The Netherlands
This pocket-sized book, which was partly crowdfunded, is the documentation and analysis of a research process. Cornford (interviewed in Neural #72), during his time as →
LP – Prensa Manual
Diego Behncke attiva un complesso reticolo di settaggi, scelte e azioni musicali utilizzando i testi di Foirades/Fizzles, una collaborazione tra Samuel Beckett e Jasper Johns sfociata in quello che è considerato uno dei libri di artisti →
Memories are in a crisis with biological failures through a steep increase in Alzheimer cases, and the creation of fake memories elaborated by machines. In ReCollection Weidi Zhang was inspired by her grandmother’s memory regression due to dementia, and elaborated →
The furore for using prompts to generate images is primarily based on a fascination with the similarity to what we know and what fulfils our expectations (or often does not, or only partially). Prompt Portraits by Clara Boj and Diego →
CD – Mind Travels Series
Robin Rimbaud, meglio noto sotto l’alias Scanner, non è nuovissimo a collaborazioni musicali fuori dai consueti confini, ad esempio quelle ultime e un po’ ambient di South London Originals con David Harrow o quelle meno →
Lothringer 13 Halle, English, German, 198 pages, 2023, Germany
Over the years, Rosa Menkman has developed a unique aesthetic and approach to images produced by machines and their hidden mechanisms. In her research project “im/possible images” →
L’opera RWM MK1 di Arthur Lucchesi è un sintetizzatore elettronico che cattura segnali radio e permette di rielaborarli secondo diverse strategie in tempo reale. Lo spettro delle onde captate è maggiore dei classici standard AM/FM; il dispositivo riesce quindi ad intercettare il rumore →
2CD – Fang Bomb
Paul Baran è un compositore, sound designer elettroacustico ed improvvisatore che vive e lavora a Glasgow non disdegnando corpose collaborazioni, ad esempio quelle per il suo primo album del 2009, sempre per Fang Bomb, dove chiamava →
Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-1503635883, English, 184 pages, 2023, USA
The Arab uprisings of 2011 were a pivotal moment for the West to understand how enabling technologies can unite and help to be in a situation where →
The institutional fraud of the carbon offset market is based on buying credits to offset the pollution and destruction of the environment just continuing to do so while someone else somewhere else namely working to offset it. The Offset project →
