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.
The invisibility of plant biofeedback is similar to that of viruses, sounds and stored digital data, all of which are still very present and directly affect us. Desert Songs is a work by Love Hultén, a machine that converts the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262047111, English, 287 pages, 2022, USA
Digital capitalism and its management of myriad networks is now so embedded in our daily experience of space and time that we barely remember how it →
CD + booklet – Editions Basilic, Luna Bisonte Prods
John M. Bennett, nato a Chicago nel 1942, è sicuramente una figura iconica delle scene underground statunitensi, attivista e poeta visivo, seminale sperimentatore con testi e suoni, eclettico ricercatore che →
The buildings we inhabit have stolen space from countless other living beings. With urban arrogance and an abundance of artificial and invasive materials, we have literally invaded many ecosystems that were once ideal and autonomous. With rising sea levels, there →
CD – Rizosfera
Noesis è il nono album in studio di Clock DVA e il tempo sembra essersi fermato. Tutto è ancora in gioco, la passione per il futuro, la speranza – o la disillusione – di tecnologie che prendono →
CD – Unseen Worlds
Sono quattro le composizioni di John McGuire che vengono presentate per il catalogo della Unseen World e tutte realizzare nel periodo – ricco di seminali rivolgimenti nel campo della musica d’innovazione – che va dal 1975 →
CD – Ash International
Flussi di dati generati da vari modelli di simulazione di buchi neri astrofisici e dati osservativi di regioni nello spazio con campi gravitazionali estremi confluiscono in Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001, nuova fatica di Valery Vermeulen, matematico, new →
Duke University Press, ISBN 978-1478011828, English, 256 pages, 2021, USA
In the extensive debate about noise and its multiple roles, meanings and effects on culture, there are some specific modern environments that are rarely considered but which →
CD – Sub Rosa
Sono intrecci fatti di gentile elettronica, melodiose armonie e calibrati trattamenti space, quelli di Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran, dalla vocazione sintetico-sinfonica massimalista ma allo stesso tempo dalle traiettorie portatrici d’un flusso molto insistente →
As in previous media-centric conflicts, the various layers of propaganda expressed during the war in Ukraine have been echoed in the media, often in their most crudest or nightmarish forms. PropaGAN is a sophisticated machine created by Egor Kraft. It →
CD – Persistence of Sound
A World Behind This World è un adattamento di un pezzo radiofonico alquanto esteso prodotto per la stazione radiofonica dello Scottish Sculpture Workshop nel 2021. Il paesaggio sonoro che viene delineato nelle quattro tracce presentate →
Verlag Kettler, ISBN 978-3862069965, English, 208 pages, 2022, Germany
‘Ai […] extrapolates potential futures out of past data’, write the three editors of this exhibition catalogue of the same name. This sounds like one of the →
CD – Denovali
Sono passati già tre anni dal suo ultimo album in studio e Orson Hentschel ritorna con una nuova prova, Heavy Light, suo quarto progetto su formato esteso che è composto da otto tracce d’un elettronica sensuale e →
The representation of the disconnection between spaces in virtual reality has been a concern since its inception. In Reconnection, Chun Hua Catherine Dong demonstrates the separation and reconciliation between perceived space, physical space and their associated meanings. The elements of →
