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.
Morten Riis: Digital Sound Drawings (Crónica)
“Digital Sound Drawings”, by danish composer Morten Riis, is a collection of 6 pieces composed through the drawing of images and their direct conversion into sound.
(tags: art visual sound music)
CD – Room 40
É passata molta acqua sotto i ponti da quando in certe scene musicali non-mainstream si è iniziato a parlare di ‘illbient’, un termine – per l’appunto – coniato →
CD – Winds Measure
Dopo aver aperto l’elegante confezione in cartonato bianco rettangolare, aver letto – in inglese – un’acuta citazione del filosofo decostruzionista Jacques Derrida, incentrata sulla differenza che concettualmente – →
Connect è una scultura cinetica che da forma al caos attraverso delle sfere d’acciaio oscillanti. L’opera creata dall’artista tedesco Andreas Muxel genera dei comportamenti complessi nonostante la sua struttura e le sue regole siano →
CD – Domizil
Eccentrici passaggi, modulati in forme d’onda altrettanto atipiche, sonorità ora sghimbesce ed un poco gommose, poi giustapposte concatenazioni auditive, più sorde e granulari, accumulo cromatico d’effetti e trasalimenti percettivi. Esperienze →
Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, English
Christian Fuchs è un giovane e talentuoso social scientist austriaco che porta avanti la sua ricerca teorica sulla società dell’informazione. In questo testo costruisce una teoria →
CD – Free Software Series
Aneliti d’altre vite, atmosfere assai dense, rarefatte e cupe, droni ed intrecci di texture dilatate, la ‘Trilogie Des Fantomes’, progetto di Julien Ottavi, in arte The Noiser, →
Swing, 2009
conceptual photoshop use
(tags: visual art)
ThinkGeek :: Mixtape Memory Stick
Mixtapes are an art lost in a dead medium
(tags: music hacking visual sound)
Cell Phone Spy Elite – New Products
Read & Edit Private Data Including Deleted Texts From Any SIM Card & →
Vi siete mai chiesti di cosa fare con gli avanzi della cena? Di solito si hanno due opzioni: 1) Buttarli nell’immondizia oppure 2) Trovare da qualche parte qualcosa per produrre compost. Esaminando questo →
CD – Zeitkratzer
Registrazioni live effettuate al Volksbhüne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz di Berlino nel novembre del 2005 e poi al Donaufestival Krems, in Austria, l’anno successivo, vanno qui a comporre →
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN 9783899552171, Germany, 2008, English
C’era una chiara necessità di un lussuoso libro che avesse come tema le molte, diverse e affascinanti manifestazioni di quello che un tempo si →
2CD – 12K
Delicate sequenze, rarefatti sample e poi silenzi, sospensioni operose e brevi droni, tornando ancora su una delle principali intuizioni di Cage: quella dei suoni che comprendono una certa assenza. →
Nowhere / Now / Here photo set
Nowhere / Now / Here è una mostra con 78 lavori di 67 artisti provenienti da 20 paesi, in esposizione fino a fine aprile al LABoral, Centro de →
CD – Seeland
Decostruzione in altre forme ed approcciando differenti generi dal solito, quella dei Negativland (per mano principalmente del solo Mark Hosler), in questo ‘Thigmotactic’, sempre lavorando sull’affinità evidente nell’aspetto e nella →
