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 – Constellation Records
Negli ultimi anni molto ha nuociuto a tutta la comunità artistica internazionale – e in particolare ai musicisti – la pandemia che abbiamo attraversato e che di fatto non è ancora completamente superata, seppure in molte →
In quest’opera l’artista Louis-Philippe Demers mette in scena le riflessioni interiori di un gracchiante monocolo robotico guidato da un’Ai, che esprime i suoi pensieri mentre osserva con il suo unico inquietante occhio le persone che man mano gli siedono di →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262044936, English, 344 pages, 2023, USA
The liberating spirit of DIY (Do It Yourself) is certainly not new, neither in culture nor in art, but it has been interpreted and, above all, →
CD – Raster
Se “la società futura agisce già su quella presente”, la vita degli anni ottanta, quello che Franck Vigroux chiama senza mezzi termini “un periodo terrificante”, era già permeata da una forte alterazione del rapporto fra naturale ed →
Nandita Kumar’s From Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time is a layered work. Developed with a team of collaborators during the DAAD residency in Berlin, it consists of a bespoke machine resembling a newspaper press that prints deconstructed political →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262047470, English, 284 pages, 2022, USA
The famous Shannon-Weaver model revealed noise as a crucial disturbance in a communication channel. The role of noise now seems to have been replaced by bias →
CD – Not On Label
Dall’incontro di due sperimentatori come Kasper T. Toeplitz e Marinos Koutsomichalis, ben consapevoli di quanto le tecnologie digitali abbiano inciso sulle pratiche musicali contemporanee, sia a livello compositivo che performativo ma anche come strumento →
The idea of turning Facebook into a collectively owned medium is not entirely new (It was explicitly mentioned recently in the book Own This!), but it has definitely entered the public imagination and has been carefully developed by artist Jonas →
V2, ISBN 978-908289355, English, 128 pages, 2022, The Netherlands
If, as Carvalhais claims, works of art are no longer representational but rather ‘processes’, then calculation in art is consequently a crucial element. In this book, he →
Neural #73 Liminal Wild: Live is an intervention by artist Kexin Hao in the form of a risograph-printed poster. The project provides a new narrative where the bat becomes a role model, a pop star, and a spokesman of our →
Neural 73, Negotiating Values + extra: Liminal Wild: Live by Kexin Hao . Abbonati ora!
Issue #73, 2023 ISSN: 2037-108X
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CD – empreintes DIGITALes
La nozione di docu-fiction è centrale nell’approccio che Yves Daoust ha applicato negli ultimi anni sia all’acusmatica sia a quello che viene definito in quegli ambiti musica mista – e cioè, composizioni che presentano una parte →
CD – Eich
Sono ben venti le tracce che vanno a comporre Black, Pink and Yellow noises album collaborativo dei francesi Marc Baron e Jean-Philippe Gross, il primo sassofonista contralto che ricordiamo in coppia con Jean-Luc Guionnet nel 2007 e →
The Carousel by Peter William Holden is an analogue work that uses a matrix of eight Kodak Carousel S slide film projectors arranged in a vertical grid of two x four. Each of these does not project film, as the →
