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 – Ajabu/Family Affair
Ritmi raffinati di matrice groove inclini anche a influenze minimal, brandelli di jazz, suoni live innestati su cospicue basi programmate, eclettismo che non vogliamo certo catechizzare come inconsapevole. →
Rosy Parlane – Jassamine Part Two – Touch
Giuseppe Ielasi – Giuseppe Ielasi – Häpna
Netherworld – Kryos – Glacial Movements
The Idealist – The Knives Are My Eyes – Nosordo
Lithops – Sequenced Twinset – →
L’ edizione 2007 di Transmediale, festival for art and digital culture, intitolata Unfinished s’inaugura il 30 Gennaio alla Akademie der Künste di Berlino. É il ventennale del festival che all’inizio si chiamava Videofest. →
CD – !K7/Audioglobe
Remix compilation, ultimo atto assieme per una delle coppie di producer e dj che ha fortemente segnato la storia di questi ultimi anni nel rapporto spesso difficile fra sperimentazione e beatz, →
Youtube, o come potremmo anche definirla la TV fai da te, mette a disposizione degli utenti vere e proprie rarità video. Una di queste perle è l’atto di sabotaggio operato nel 1987 ai →
CD – and/OAR
Registrazioni operate in principio separatamente da Marc Behrens & Paulo Raposo, realizzate a bordo di ferry boat ed in altri luoghi a terra adiacenti gli approdi nell’area di Lisbona e nell’arco di tre →
Leggere il diario personale di altri può essere un gesto di puro voyeurismo oppure rivelarsi un punto di osservazione interessante su modi di vita diversi dai nostri. Grazie ai personal blog ci stiamo abituando →
CD – Nexsound
In occasione del loro quinto anniversario di concerti, i Perlonex (trio elettroacustico fondato nel 1998 e composto da Ignaz Schick, Jorg Maria Zeger e Burkhard Beins) hanno ben pensato →
La terza edizione dello Share festival (dopo il 2005 e 2006) si apre il 23 febbraio all’Accademia Albertina diBelle Arti di Torino. Per il primo anno è stato stabilito un premio, per il →
CD – Strange Fortune
Una produzione elettronica ricca di raffinate texture, sonorità dilatate ed atmosfere sognanti, cinematiche, grazie soprattutto alle melodie iterate che fanno capolino fra strane voci e droni meditativi. Inviluppi →
CD – !K7 / Audioglobe
Riedizione di uno dei dischi storici di Matthew Herbert. ‘100 lbs’ stampato nel lontano 1996 già allora vedeva assieme condensati i risultati di tre precedenti produzioni. Viene riproposto adesso →
cd-rom – Electronic Literature Organization – ISSN 19322011
Anche se sfortunatamente perlopiù celebrata in Inglese madrelingua, la letteratura elettronica rappresenta un vasto e sottostimato campo di ricerca nei termini dell’estetica →
CD – Touch
Stridulo, inquieto vociare dei gabbiani prima della tempesta, naturali ma allo stesso tempo aliene sequenze sonore, segnali d’un cambiamento climatico significativo, amplificato nella fedele registrazione degli →
Offline – Online Publishing: The Love for Print in an Age of Electronic Media is a conference on the paper/pixel dual and controversial relationship. It’s scheduled for the 19th of January (today), at the →
