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 – Flux
Ricordavamo Frank Rothkamm per il suo “estro multiforme, privo di pregiudizi e barriere di genere”, per una sorta di muzak ibridata capace di mettere in relazione “tradizione classica e cultura rock, intrecciando anche tensioni computer music, cut-upping →
Photo/Nikto è un gioco per iPad, progettato da Annelore Schneider e Douglas Edric Stanley all’interno del progetto «Unterplay» del the Master Media Design – HEAD di Ginevra. Il suo funzionamento è molto semplice. →
CD – Glacial Movements
Il progetto Netherworld, sostenuto dal produttore romano Alessandro Tedeschi, fondatore dell’etichetta Glacial Movements, è stato finora caratterizzato da sonorità ambient isolazioniste ed eteree. Adesso questa strada è aperta a una →
Continuum, ISBN-13: 978-1441161369, 304 pages, 2010, English
Questo libro è una ricerca sulla “vita uditiva,” esplorando la quotidiana pratica dell’ascolto e sulla possibile influenza degli studi uditivi sull’interpretazione della società. Suddiviso sistematicamente →
Phone Story è un nuovo gioco svilluppato da Molleindustria per Android e iPhone (disponibile per Android ma già bandito dalla Apple e ritirato dall’Appstore, poichè accusato di contenuti violenti e presunta non conformità →
CD – Bruit Clair
Album di debutto per Emmanuele Gibello, artista parigina avvezza al connubio tra visual ed elettronica, assai abile nel manipolare field recording, estrapolate da contesti sia naturali che urbani, utilizzando strumenti elettronici, →
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553369, 240 pages, 2011, English
Se siete fermi al concetto di “zines” come prodotto del punk, è opportuno dare un’occhiata a questo libro e farsi un’idea di →
CD – Escrec
L’olandese Bram Van Den Oever, meglio conosciuto come Gluid, ha già pubblicato in veste solista sotto le insegne della esc.rec un primo cdr-album. In occasione della sua seconda uscita →
Grazie a Martin Howse ed al collettivo micro_ research, per la prima volta gli algoritmi epidemici vengono utilizzati in uno strumento musicale. Questi algoritmi sono apparsi per la prima volta 40 →
CD – 12K
Musica strumentale davvero soave e delicata quella a firma Illuha, moniker dietro il quale si celano Corey Fuller e Data Tomoyashi, due musicisti che articolano gentili e sinuose sequenze operando →
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415893107, 176 pages, 2011, English
Oltre ad essere la co-organizzatrice di quattro edizioni del mitico festival di software art READ.ME (ognuna delle quali è stata documentata in un catalogo di →
CD – Cave12
Antoine Chessex è un talentuoso compositore svizzero, sassofonista e musicista sperimentale, avvezzo anche ad installazioni sonore e a collaborazioni transdisciplinari, in solo, oppure – egualmente – in progetti collaborativi. →
Finally you can also subscribe to a purely digital version of the printed Neural magazine!
It’s of course cheaper, includes digital access to issues since #29, which are indeed searchable, all the web addresses are clickable, →
Neural #41 extra, Eavesdropping – The Indiscretions of The Ear, catalogue of the exhibition, (only for subscribers):
artists: Acid Police | Anne Wellmer | BMB con. Jeroen Uyttendaele | Lars Kynde | Michele Spanghero Wen Chin Fu
curated →
