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.
2CD – Xi
Droni dilatati oltremisura, sonorità ottenute accuratamente modulando ‘bagpipes’ (cornamuse) in armonie tonali suggestive, avvolgenti, intricate nelle spire melanconiche degli inviluppi seriali spesso percorsi da imperscrutabili secondarie derive. Un album →
Blip Festival 2007
The Tank + 8bitpeoples presents a 4-day modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world.
(tags: music videogame sound preservation)
Le riflessioni sulla vita artificiale si sviluppano, per lo più, intorno al dogma della rappresentazione digitale: solo ciò che può essere rappresentato su uno schermo può essere affrontato e compreso. Questo tipo di →
CD – Potomak
‘Tutto Nuovamente Aperto’, questo il titolo dell’ultimo album degli Einstuerzende Neubauten, combo celeberrimo, capace ancora di scompaginare ogni ruolo, ogni musicale certezza, mettendo da parte nostalgie e vetusti stereotipi →
Originale il progetto di Gordan Savicic, Costraint City – The Pain of Everyday life, che utilizza in modo alquanto inaspettato i campi elettromagnetici generati dalle reti wireless disseminate sul territorio mappandole sul proprio →
CD – Relish/Family Affair
Se già all’inizio di quest’anno sotto il moniker David Gilmour Girls scoprivamo le prime incisioni di Jasper Uhl e Robin Van Der Kaa inserite nelle selezioni della →
Marcin Ramocki, artista polacco, ma anche regista di documentari e curatore indipendente, sin dalle prime sperimentazioni ha focalizzato la propria ricerca sulla costruzione di metafore attraverso l’uso dei più svariati software. La narrativa →
@C & Vitor Joaquim – Lissabon – Feld
Steve Peters – Abrasions – Sirr
Gene Bowen – Desert’s Edge – Amorfon
Uusitalo – Sikojen Juhla – Huume/Audioglobe
Annea Lockwood – →
The MIT Press – ISBN 978-0262182621
Casey Reas è uno dei pochi artisti digitali che hanno talento sia sul versante tecnico che su quello teorico. Nello spazio mediale le sue opere sono →
Non una semplice raccolta mixata, sotto il marchio di ‘Minimalismo Italiano’ si scopre un laboratorio d’idee, un progetto musicale ed estetico nato per dar luogo a nuove espressioni artistiche. Il tutto prende →
DVD – Errant Bodies
Nel solco delle strategie comunicative percorse in passato dalla Errant Bodies, label attenta alle iterazioni fra suoni e spazi, in particolare relazionati a temi →
Shift, festival of Electronic Arts has started on 25 of October in Basel, in the Dreispitz industrial area. The theme is ‘Access’, that has many facets in the digital realm. The exhibition is hosting →
CD + DVD – Own Records
Lembi di pelle, paesaggi e contrasti, parole fluttuanti, dolci nenie, infine ombre fugaci, familiari astrazioni e racconti: estetizzazione del quotidiano che segue molte forme e percorsi →
Rothko Generator
Simulating Rothko style, adapting pictures taken from the net
(tags: art software net media visual)
