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.
LP + single-sided 10″ – Ergot
Le sound artist Annea Lockwood e Ruth Anderson, quest’ultima venuta a mancare nel 2019 alla veneranda età di novantuno anni, hanno trascorso assieme quasi 50 anni collaborando a progetti e pubblicazioni significative, sin dagli →
The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226823409, English, 220 pages, 2023, USA
As the brain seems to be slowly accepted as a target site of information transmission, the cultural influence of “intelligent” machines and the pressure →
What will remain of all our digital and in particular smartphones activities? Very little, possibly, except what will be recorded in a format and medium that will survive time and space. Yoshe Li’s Etching Sound is a project that →
CD – Helical
Quella di un’orchestra di strumenti automatizzati è un idea non certo nuova nella storia della musica e delle tecnologie, congiunzione che nell’ottocento diede vita ad un artigianato d’alta specializzazione, modellato in funzione delle conoscenze derivate perlopiù dalle →
nai010, ISBN 978-9462087194, English, 320 pages, 2023, The Netherlands
“The infosphere is not homogeneous, but striated”. This is one of the challenging yet fact-based concepts formulated and illustrated in Datapolis. This book, which originated as a →
Using Augmented Reality to make a political comment was not necessarily the first concern of artists, who may have missed an opportunity. J. R. Carpenter & Tomo Kihara have seized this opportunity with their work This is Not a Good →
CD – Crónica
Molteplici feedback, strati di rumore e di suoni trovati subiscono svariati passaggi venendo modificati da una serie di unità di ritardo digitale stereo i cui parametri (delay time, reverse, freeze, etc.) sono manipolati in tempo reale tramite →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517912116, English, 280 pages, 2023, USA
Although we attach enormous importance to sight, as humans we are very limited, as we can perceive less than one per cent of the entire →
Nel suo nuovo progetto Terra Xenobiotica l’artista Saša Spačal esplora la vita del suolo situato in prossimità degli aeroporti. L’installazione si compone di due parti. Il film “Holding Patterns”, scritto in collaborazione con la teorica Alison Sperling, descrive uno scenario →
3CD Boxset + Booklet – 901 Editions
Immaginate un set apparentemente caotico con quattro musicisti improvviasativi e tavoli affastellati da mixer, effettiere, contenitori in acciaio, strumenti a corda e microfoni di differenti tipologie, insieme a svariati altri oggetti →
The Eriskay Connection, ISBN 978-9492051998, English, 108 pages, 2023, The Netherlands
This pocket-sized book, which was partly crowdfunded, is the documentation and analysis of a research process. Cornford (interviewed in Neural #72), during his time as →
LP – Prensa Manual
Diego Behncke attiva un complesso reticolo di settaggi, scelte e azioni musicali utilizzando i testi di Foirades/Fizzles, una collaborazione tra Samuel Beckett e Jasper Johns sfociata in quello che è considerato uno dei libri di artisti →
Memories are in a crisis with biological failures through a steep increase in Alzheimer cases, and the creation of fake memories elaborated by machines. In ReCollection Weidi Zhang was inspired by her grandmother’s memory regression due to dementia, and elaborated →
The furore for using prompts to generate images is primarily based on a fascination with the similarity to what we know and what fulfils our expectations (or often does not, or only partially). Prompt Portraits by Clara Boj and Diego →
