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.
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 →
CD – Hibernate
Le registrazioni effettuate per Presence furono originariamente concepite da Yann Novak per una performance sonora tenutasi in occasione di VOLUME, un evento curato al Torrance Art Museum nel Giugno 2010. Le →
“Communicating Bacteria” è un’ installazione ispirata da ricerche biologiche sui flussi di comunicazione tra batteri ed è frutto della collaborazione tra l’artista Anna Domitriu da tempo impegnata nelle ricerche sulla microbiologia e le pratiche collaborative, →
Paperback: 248 pages, The MIT Press; updated edition edition (March 11, 2011), English, ISBN-10: 0262515849, ISBN-13: 978-0262515849
Questo è un libro sugli scherzi e le goliardate al MIT, →
CD – Agxivatein
Un paio di cuffie, una coppia d’altoparlanti attivi, un dvd player, una cornice digitale con la memory stick usb, il tutto realizzato in luoghi specifici, attraverso una serie di perfomance, in uno spazio sonoro ogni volta messo →
I-R.A.S.C. è un dispositivo che protegge contro le telecamere di sorveglianza a raggi infrarossi. Esso è infatti costituito da una banda elastica indossabile corredata di appositi led che irradiano a loro volta raggi infrarossi →
booklet+dvd, 44 pages, Canada, 2009, EAVM/Hexagram, ISBN: 978-2-922392-11-1
“Sonic Architecture” è un’espressione usata per descrivere cose molto diverse, dalle proprietà architettoniche audio-riflettenti di un edificio alla struttura di un pezzo complesso di musica. →
Dietro alle serie ordinate di oggetti di Idan Hayosh si cela un insospettabile immaginario bellico. Entrando in una delle sue installazioni ci si trova di fronte a file di oggetti quali lampade, posate, serbatoi →
CD – GH Records
Francisco López e Novi_sad non hanno certo bisogno di troppe presentazioni nelle enclave contemporanee dell’elettronica sperimentale. Anche in “Titans” danno prova d’incommensurabile talento, dispiegando ambientali partiture →
Guarda il photo set di Elektra 12 su Flickr
Montreal è l’indiscussa capitale culturale del Canada e la più grande città della provincia francofona del Quebec. Anche se c’è un visibile e percepibile →
CD – Mego
Dalla tradizione del movimento Fluxus – del quale in passato Yasunao Tone è stato uno degli importanti organizzatori attivi – il maestro giapponese trascende il continuo mutare della materia →
Springer Vienna Architecture, 2010, English, book+dvd, 212 pages, ISBN: 978-3709103203
Dopo decenni in cui gli artisti sono stati considerati ospiti nei laboratori scientifici (quando ammessi), poiché considerati intrusi momentaneamente accettati, lo sviluppo dei laboratori di arte e scienza è diventato →
CD – and/OAR
Sono tre i cd che Luigi Turra presenta in un’unica uscita sotto le insegne della and/OAR, comprensivi d’altrettante estese e distinte composizioni – rispettivamente – Enso, Ancient Silence e Shasekishu. La →
