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 – Carte Postale
Tenue elettronica quella di Kingfisherg (aka François Boulanger), al suo secondo album (ma il primo era un mini) su Carte Postale Records, label indipendente di base in Belgio che →
dvd – Mosz – mosz012
Nel lavoro dei Fuckhead, volutamente ambiguo nella commistione di forme spettacolari e per temi trattati ma al contrario chiarissimo negli esiti formali che attingono (e non poco) alla →
The Future of Music -IEEE Spectrum
Tearing Down the Wall of Noise
(tags: media music sound)
Wii Drumsticks version 2.3 – YouTube
Emulating drum sticks
(tags: media music sound)
Jeff Feddersen, autore di EarthSpeaker, è un artista con un background misto, prevalentemente orientato sulle dinamiche, ormai quasi indistinguibili, che intercorrono tra musica e informatica, usando come soggetti di sperimentazione prediletti la →
CD – Persistence Bit/Audioglobe
Forse non sarà il momento migliore per le scene minimal, quello attuale, per sovraesposizione a rischio di collasso (particolarmente evidente proprio in una metropoli come Berlino, mecca di →
CD – Sub Rosa/Audioglobe
Concept album si sarebbe detto una volta, oppure operazione di taglio prettamente metalinguistico (o metanarrativo se preferite – un poco nello spirito che in ambito cinematografico ha →
CD – Hibari Music
Registrazioni in parte effettuate negli studi di Christoph Amann a Vienna ed in parte eseguite live alla Kid Ailack Art Hall di Tokyo, fra il 2003 e il →
CD – Raster Noton
Ensemble a marchio Raster Noton quello dei Signal, formato da Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider e Carsten Nicolai (praticamente gli stessi fondatori della prestigiosa label, progetto che prese forma nel 1999 →
L’11 Agosto il Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) di Taipei presenta la mostra ZONE V2_, che sintetizza gli ultimi tre temi principali del Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF): ‘Machine Times’, ‘Information is Alive’ e →
CD – Korm Plastics
Produzioni frutto del lavoro collaborativo effettuato negli studi dell’Extrapool, a Nijmegen, Olanda, raccolte in forma di otto delicatissime composizioni, sequenze chitarristiche improvvisative di Greg Malcom →
NBC muckraker gets hacked at Defcon | The Register
At Defcon a woman fled the conference after being identified in front of hundreds as an undercover television reporter
(tags: hacking media hacktivism tv)
CD – Interval
Violoncello ed elettronica, un ibrido elettroacustico delicatissimo quello organizzato dai Mem1, duo composto da M. Cera, media artist e manipolatore di suoni digitali, assieme Laura Thomas-Merino, violoncellista d’origine losangelina. Alla loro →
Second Life parody – Draftfcb/paris
Simple but funny parody in real life.
(tags: video net media videogame)
CD – Kvitnu
Dall’Ucraina elettronica, supportato dalla label di Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra) e con Zavoloka responsabile dell’elegante artwork, arriva questo ‘Xquisite. Xcerpt’, secondo progetto su formato esteso di Dunaewsky69 (Olexandr Gladun), →
