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.
cassette – Gruenrekorder|K7
DinahBird e Jean-Philippe Renoult sono interessati alle prime tecnologie di trasmissione radiofonica, che adesso vengono attualizzate in virtù della necessità che si ha nel mondo della finanza di veicolare dati ad alta velocità, utilizzando quindi specifiche frequenze, →
cassette – Ricerca Sonora
Filippo Lilli e Donato Loforese, aka Polisonum, ricordano spesso come i suoni per loro natura siano legati a un’assoluta unicità degli eventi. Bisogna quindi essere presenti, trovarsi sul posto, sapere cogliere il momento nel quale in →
Nell’installazione sonora “umwandler” Nika Schmitt sperimenta l’idea di un sistema autonomo di generazione e conservazione di energia. L’opera consiste in una sorta di enorme bobina elettromagnetica costruita all’interno del Water Reservoir di Berlino, uno spazio sottorraneo circolare, vuoto e roboante, →
cassette – Anunaki Tabla
Prima uscita da solista per Kenn Hartwig, bassista e membro delle band Das Ende Der Liebe, C.A.R., Enjuti, Center for Mind and Brain e Shiva And The Destroyer, solo per citarne alcune, musicista coinvolto in un →
LP – iDEAL
In tempi di retromania insistita e di feticizzazione dell’offline è quasi conseguente che alcuni artisti elettronici siano interessati a strumenti vintage e a tecniche performative che niente hanno a che spartire con i moderni set-up improntati al →
Galerie der Abseitigen Künste/Mille Plateaux, book+USB card, ISBN 978-3948478193, English, 64 pages, 2023, Germany
The electric guitar has been playing a structural role for music especially in the second half of the 20th century, and still →
LP + booklet – Die Schachtel
Il Colore Del Melograno, seconda opera del regista sovietico Sergei Parajanov, è un film di fine anni sessanta, adesso sicuramente da annoverare fra i cult di quella stagione, quando in URSS era ancor più →
When someone like Nicolas Nova dies, we are tempted to ask in despair: Why? Or rather: Why him? In the ir/rationality of life and death, we wish that brilliant and generous minds (a very rare combination) would simply live forever. →
Media art often encourages a sense of sharing, if not the formation of temporary communities around a common event or goal. Various artists have combined this with technologies that influence our perception – Mogens Jacobsen is one of them. →
CD + print – arbitrary
Emil Jensen alla tromba, al synth modulare, al sequencer e alle field recording, Anders Filipsen che dà voce a una pletora di altri sintetizzatori e Victor Dybbroe che infonde ritmicamente l’intera uscita. Insieme, il nome →
LP – Hospital Hill
La Serge Modular Music Systems di Serge Tcherepnin è stata negli anni settanta una fra le più iconiche fucine di sintetizzatori analogici modulari, strumenti sui quali oggi si riversa un grande interesse e non potrebbe essere →
V2_ Publishing, ISBN 978-9082893595, English, 64 pages, 2023, The Netherlands
There are exhibitions where a research phase is carried out before the opening, focusing on the nature of the theme and not just on the curatorial →
The exposure to spoken words instigates an immediate response from our biological senses, especially if the content is sensitive. Matt Gingold’s Delay Orkestra is designed to test this sensitivity by playing and recording psychiatric descriptions of ‘mental disorders’ through a →
2CD + booklet – Futura Resistenza
Accompagnata da uno stilizzato booklet verdino di 16 pagine arriva quest’ultima fatica di Christof Migone, sound artist, professore, curatore e scrittore di origine svizzera ma adesso residente a Toronto. Wet Water (Let’s Dance) subito →
