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.
CD – Electroton
Atmosfere glicciate e tagliatissime, densamente articolate fra suoni di sintesi e programmazione di linguaggi utilizzando solo dati. Intrecci che per sensibilità riflettono trasversalmente le influenze di certa minimal-techno di matrice →
Nel mondo dell’arte, autori come Stelarc e Krzysztof Wodiczko hanno prodotto suggestioni preoccupanti relative all’integrazione tra corpo e tecnologia, ignorando però il potenziale espressivo ed estetico della tecnologia dell’abbigliamento. Oggi, infatti, grazie al →
CD – Cash
Progetto assai rarefatto e minimale del musicista-compositore svizzero Simon Hostettler (aka Simon Ho), artista avvezzo alla ricerca e alla contaminazione stilistica, sempre in bilico fra differenti ambiti. Prima implementazione →
L’immagine di un paesaggio incantato nel quale le piante accompagnano il passaggio dei visitatori con suoni e canti è un elemento ricorrente nella letteratura ed in particolare nella poesia. E’ una suggestione che ha →
The Pirate Party US Endorses Obama
He refused RIAA money support and he is the only one that should consider a copyright change
(tags: hacking hacktivism copyright media)
CD – Some Bizarre
Con buona parte delle registrazioni solamente strumentali si da alle ristampe ‘Silk’. Già originariamente il doppio album dei Foetus, uscito nel 1989 e poi nel 1995 (in versione →
24th Chaos Communication Congress, 24C3
The annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club with a diverse audience of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians.
(tags: hacking hacktivism media net)
CD – Shitkatapult
Coaudivati da Thomas Fehlmann, nelle vesti di produttore esecutivo, il duo composto da Max Loderbauer e Tom Thiel ha segnato nella decade passata l’evoluzione dell’ambient-techno. In bilico fra sperimentalismo →
CD – Amazon Records
Sequenze di taglio improvvisativo, grande padronanza tecnica esibita attraverso strutture intricate di suoni, molteplicità nei ritmi, ‘polimorfismo’ immaginativo e dei ‘codici’ utilizzati nella collisione-giustapposizione d’elementi attivi a più livelli, →
LOOK | Official Motion Picture Website
A movie shot entirely from a surveillance camera perspective
(tags: hacktivism art tv video media)
303 Orchestra @ UMF 2007
Juha Hulkkonen spent his sunday afternoon with his friends and ten 303s.
(tags: music sound)
Nonostante la crescente disponibilità di megapixel e banda larga, ci siamo sempre più abituati alla perdita di risoluzione e di dettaglio, spesso dovuta ad economiche tecniche di compressione d’immagine, cosiddette ‘lossy’. I contenuti più →
CD – Cold Blue Music
Ariosi intrecci, pianistiche melodie ed insieme percussioni, agite rispettivamente da Stephen Drury e Scott Deal, in costruzioni poliritmiche, mutevoli per variazioni di tempo ed eleganti sovrapposizioni →
CD – Hymen
Ad attirare la nostra curiosità, se non bastasse l’apocalittico titolo ‘The Last Days Of Rome’ insieme alla disorientante art-cover, frutto quest’ultima dell’accoppiata Chris Wood-Richard Grant (assai scaltra stavolta nel detournare →
