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.
(edited by) Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard – The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190460167, English, 880 pages, 2019, UK
Five years in the making, this heavy tome is the first of two volumes investigating sound and imagination from a true multidisciplinary perspective (from psychoacoustics to →
Project Alias, home privacy
Il cordyceps è un fungo parassita che si innesta negli insetti nutrendosene. Project Alias, di Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen, è un simile “parassita” per gli home device, che può essere personalizzato per controllare i propri smart assistant tutelando la →
Atom™ – <3
CD – Raster
Non c’è futuro senza lacrime e qui il nucleo centrale del progetto è parte appunto della nostra contemporaneità estrema, un concentrato di elaborazioni sensoriali in forma di ibridi umano-macchinici. Uwe Schmidt sotto il moniker Atom™ non è →
Brian Massumi – Architectures of the Unforeseen, Essays in the Occurrent Arts
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1517905965, English, 240 pages, 2019, USA
What happens when one of the most respected philosophers of the media art scene writes an entire book exploring the work of three artists? Brian →
Waldian, functionalist electronic sculpture
The golden era of electronic art produced not only primordial generative artworks, screen manipulations and electronic music, but also a few custom-hardware-based sculptures, of which only a small number have been preserved. Eirik Brandal has an interest in such artefacts, →
Florian Wittenburg – Beyond The Traceries
CD – Wandelweiser
La parola inglese “tracery”, “flechtwerk” in tedesco, in italiano potrebbe essere tradotta in molte differenti maniere, innanzitutto “intreccio” che ben s’adatta all’idea di una musica elettronica molto manipolata, ma anche “ricamo”, o “intaglio”, o “disegno”, che testimonierebbero →
edited by Sabine Himmelsbach, Angelique Spaninks, Ariane Koek – Real Feelings, Emotion and Technology
Christoph Merian Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3856169312, English, 192 pages, 2020, Switzerland
Technology’s influence on our emotions is a recurring topic in digital culture discourse, especially since we entered the era of the quantified self. In particular, facial recognition →
Adversarial.io, subverting image recognition
There is growing criticism of the widespread application of machine-based recognition and data processing, especially those involving visual technologies. The inaccuracy, tolerated as a minority, is second only to the political consequences of the applied criteria. Francis Hunger & Flupke →
Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.4
CD – Noton
Quarta e penultima uscita per Alva Noto della serie Xerrox, partita nel 2007, un progetto che nell’insieme è basato sul concetto di replica digitale del materiale di partenza, sulla manipolazione dei dati, utilizzando un metodo di →
CMD, the clash between finance and biology
In Michael Sedbon’s “CMD”, two artificial ecosystems, made by sets of photosynthetic bacteria, share a light source, the access to which is granted through a ‘market’. A genetic algorithm optimises the market rules. Each bacterial colony can claim access to →
(edited by) Susanne Gaensheimer, Kathrin Beßen – Cao Fei
Hirmer Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-3777432045, German, 192 pages, 2019, Germany
Cao Fei is probably one of the most requested Chinese artists by US and EU art institutions. This can largely be attributed to a rare ability to translate →
*(asterisk), wannabe apple
Al centro dell’installazione “*(asterisk)” c’è quel che sembra una mela. Incastrata dentro una sfera armillare, la mela ruota di continuo a 360°, inquadrata da telecamere che scansionano al millimetro la sua superficie. Quattro monitor posizionati intorno all’ingranaggio mostrano in tempo →
(edited by) Lawrence Kumpf – Blank Forms Journal, Vol. 4: Intelligent Life
Blank Forms Editions, ISSN: 2642-7052, English, 302 pages, 2019, USA
The 4th issue of Blank Forms’ journal serves its vocation to research and publish forgotten dynamics and connections in experimental music. The issue’s title is borrowed →
On Framing Textile Ambiguities, material patterns as bonding
Nathalie Gebert’s “On Framing Textile Ambiguities” is an excellent work using textile as both medium and metaphor, and focusing on thread, for its “emancipatory potential”. It inevitably mentions the famous Jacquard loom, as an ancestor of computing systems, and associated →