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 – Public Information
Con un’edizione in vinile limitata a sole 500 unità ed una in cd – quella della copia in nostro possesso – guarnita da un piccolo ma interessante booklet →
La matrice ci ingoia. Definisce e forma sempre più le nostre posizioni. L’artista italiano Paolo Cirio usa questo fatto scomodo come base per una nuova opera. Street Ghosts mostra l’indiscrezione dei media che →
CD – Fang Bomb
Ambientazioni claustrofobiche, scuri pattern in sottofondo, larvate melodie, intrecci alquanto diluiti e siderali. In tal maniera ha inizio “The Black Sun Transmissions” di Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, →
Il dibattito attorno al valore della proprietà intellettuale è stato condotto spesso sui soliti argomenti da quando il file sharing è venuto in primo piano alla fine degli anni ’90. Mentre da una parte l’industria →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816677955, 504 pages, 2012, English
Il fatto (ampiamente annunciato) che anche Google abbia iniziato ad elargire borse di studio agli →
Mute Books, ISBN: 9781906496517, 184 pages, 2011, English
Si tratta di un libro concettuale ma di agile lettura con un unico tema ma ben sviluppato. Agit Disco, infatti, è una “collezione di →
Plöttner Verlag Gmbh, ISBN: 9783862110483, 2011, 256 pages, English
Anche se gli Stati autoproclamati non sono un concetto nuovo, nemmeno →
The MIT Press,
ISBN: 978-0262042482
, 304 pages, 2011, English
Una delle prime accese discussioni intraprese nei circuiti di software art nei primi anni 2000 ha riguardato la pervasività del software nella vita →
Shitkatapult,
CD+DVD
, Strike134, 2011
Ci sono voluti dieci anni per Markus Popp/Oval per tornare con l’album (“O”) che ha cambiato radicalmente il suo approccio nei confronti dei suoni classici (con batteria, →
The MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262017459, 272 pages, 2012, English
Howard Rheingold si è già dimostrato uno scrittore particolare quando si tratta del tema tecnologia e →
Revolver Berlin, ISBN: 978-3868951950 256 pages, German, English, 2012
Pensando per un minuto a tutti i libri che celebrano le storie di diverse singole istituzioni messe insieme, possiamo allora immaginare →
Sub Rosa, Book+DVD, ISBN: 978095 5736117, SR314, 2011
Trattando il suono come memoria e coinvolgendo un certo numero di differenti professionisti si possono ottenere risultati molto interessanti. “Sounds From Beneath” è il →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 9780816674657, 232 pages, English, 2011
In “Improper Life” Campbell sviluppa il suo provocatorio pensiero in una scrittura →
CD – Aural Terrains
Nelle forme d’una riflessione sulle implicazioni emozionali, psicologiche e fisiologiche, incentrata sulle parole “casa” e “territorio”, i suoni alla base di questo progetto includono parole, storie raccontate, →
