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.
Alta Tecnología Andina, ISBN-13: ISBN: 978-6124793509, English, Spanish, 592 pages, 2018, Perù
This 600-page tome, including texts in both Spanish and English, is a historical account, compiled through multiple voices, of the Peruvian video and electronic →
LP – PAN
Al di là della nostra coscienza e del nostro pianeta esistono mondi che val la pena d’esplorare? Alla domanda sibillina, che provoca un immediato straniamento, Jenna Sutela risponde con registrazioni d’una ipotetica prima lingua marziana, visioni di →
Although the Swiss landscapes are known throughout the world for their uncontaminated beauty, in reality they are supported by artificial infrastructures that have shaped these natural environments for decades: dams, tunnels, protection nets, irrigation systems, snow cannons and many other →
Društvo Galerija Boks / MG+MSUM / Projekt Atol, ISSN 2335-4232, English, 275 pages, 20’19, Slovenia
Printed publications are expanding their role as they develop and stabilise other cultural forms. This includes the ‘augmented catalogue’ featuring a →
5 CD Box – Spazio di Hausdorff
Andando a rimestare nelle seminali sperimentazioni della scena cassette underground – parliamo degli anni ottanta e novanta – Spazio di Hausdorff, label creata nel 2018 da Giancarlo e Massimo Toniutti a →
Similar to what Philip Dick told us in 1956, in Minority Report, our ‘smart cities’ are now trying to become “safe cities”. There are a lot of IT companies already working with the various military forces, creating mapping systems that →
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italian, 600 pages, 2019, Italy
There is a body of early work from early activists, sociologists and philosophers who engaged with the sociotechnical impact of information technology just before →
CD – Transacoustic Research
Qual è il ruolo della lingua parlata nell’era della sorveglianza elettronica pervasiva e permanente? Darkvoice è un album accompagnato da una serie di video che riflettono appunto su questa tematica. Nello specifico quello che Jörg Piringer →
CD – Errant Bodies
Per questo progetto sonoro Antje Vowinckel ha accuratamente registrato tutta una serie di monologhi e dialoghi, espressioni vocali che in parte sono state poi imitate dalla stessa autrice con l’apporto di Marc Sabat e Serge Baghdassarians, →
The spectacle of science and technology is sometimes used by artists to divert and use an audience’s attention. This is the case with ’VOLTA’ by Yann Leguay, which exploits the ‘plasma speaker’ technique (a variation of Tesla coil speakers), using →
Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9462982161, English, 238 pages, 2019, The Netherlands
While media archeology discourse is now moving in different directions, its practical implications are more present now than ever. This collection builds on the →
LP – Avatar Quebec
Con Fluff, album licenziato da Avatar Quebec, si concretizza l’ennesima proficua collaborazione fra l’artista multimediale Marla Hlady ed il chitarrista, cantante e compositore Eric Chenaux, un duo che s’ingegna in sperimentazioni che definiscono field-performance-recording. Sia chiaro →
CD – Aagoo
Israel Martínez, sound artista messicano di base a Guadalajara, è incline ad un attivismo politico-sociale alquanto intenso e critico, fortemente influenzato dallo stesso contesto nel quale vive, una realtà pregna d’accadimenti semplici e quotidiani, ricca d’elementi in →
CD – New Domain
Nel vuoto dello spazio siderale nessun suono viene trasmesso, questo ci dice la scienza e persino le tumultuose emanazioni auditive del sole non hanno alcuna possibilità di giungere a noi in assenza di fenomeni vibrazionali degni →
