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 – Non Visual Objects
Eteree atmosfere lievemente infuse d’attitudini ‘jazzy’, noir per vocazione ma concettualissime nelle sequenze assai astratte ed elettroniche. Sound design quello del duo che allo scetticismo per le →
CD – 12 K
Digitali soundscape diradati ed astratti, interazioni acustiche (‘Broken Guitar’, ‘Discarded Violin’), bleep, sotto il moniker Autistici, c’arrivano dall’inglese David Newman, per la 12 K di Taylor Deupree. Costruzioni sensibilissime →
CD – Non Visual Objects
Procedimento davvero insolito quello d’operare field recording utilizzando come base sonora l’hum (il disturbo che risulta da una differenza di potenziale elettrico nelle apparecchiature collegate assieme). Interferenza →
Icon Watch
Pricey interface-like watch
(tags: software)
CD – Underscan
Interessante compilation della Underscan Recordings, label berlinese fondata dal team produttivo composto da Ralph Pytlik e Markward Wagner, prima release della serie ‘Now’, giusto a connettere un davvero ampio →
CD – Cock Rock Disco
Sembra evolvere verso modalità sempre più radicali la parabola artistica di Jason Forrest, aka Dj Donna Summer, uno dei numi tutelari del breakcore plagiarista, genere anch’esso →
Noto in precedenza come “Nigeria Scam”, le email di truffa che solo apparentemente vengono spedite dall’Africa sono un classico della categoria del phishing. Questo tipo di spam costituisce un →
Possiamo definire la “fake culture” come uno delle più aggiornate incarnazioni del “detournament”, un concetto periodicamente (ri)scoperto dagli artisti. Facilitato sia dalle infinite possibilità della programmazione del codice che dall’oceano di →
CD – Revisited Records
Registrato da Klaus Schulze (accompagnato dal percussionista Harald Grosskopf) tra la fine del 1976 ed il settembre dell’anno successivo Body Love Vol. 2 nasce originariamente come casuale seguito →
Z.T.m.V. #07 Gordijnen
Ascii Art on a curtain
(tags: art media)
CD – Ad Noiseam
Bassi cupi, vibranti droni e secche battute, fedele al proprio imprinting elettronico, ancora Mike Harris, dopo ben cinque anni dal suo ultimo studio album, ritorna sotto il moniker Scorn →
Con l’espressione “proprietà intellettuale” (PI) si indicano gli specifici diritti legali che autori, inventori e altri aventi diritto possono avere ed esercitare. Non si denota il lavoro intellettuale in quanto tale.
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CD – Conspiracy International
Secondo album dopo l’abbandono dell’antico moniker (Chris & Cosey) per il duo che assieme a Genesis P-Orridge e Peter Christopherson costituiva il celeberrimo combo dei Throbbing Gristle. Contrariamente →
a VAVAsoft è una software house alquanto inusuale, le sue uniche 2 release sembrano essere il frutto di un bisogno reale del loro programmatore più che dei dettami del mercato e di chi lo →
