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 – Cut
Registrato nello studio casalingo di Gabriel Paiuk, a Buenos Aires, il 30 Novembre del 2004, ‘ Breathings’ segna l’incontro di due differenti ma poi non troppo lontane sensibilità, quella ‘improvvisativa’ →
Ars Electronica 2006 foto set.
Nell’arco degli ultimi dieci anni i temi di Ars Electronica festival hanno formalmente cercato di essere cartina tornasole per quanto stava accadendo sulla scena digitale. Se nel 2003, epifania della software art, →
2CD – Crónica
Dalla Lituania via Crónica Electronica (Portogallo) arriva un doppio cd deflagrante nelle articolazioni soniche di raffinate sequenze sperimentali, astratte e minimal. Incursione nei territori post-techno operata da Gintas Kraptavicius, aka →
CD – Persistencebit Records – bit013
software ha spezzato il concetto di video come una unità di flusso, trasformandola in un artificiale ecosistema visuale. Scott Pagano, curatore della serie →
CD – Crouton
Astratte, delicatissime ma ancora rigorose digressioni elettroniche provenienti da Robert Hampson e Steven Hess, sperimentatori finissimi adesso su Crouton dopo numerose pubblicazioni con Sub Rosa, →
BrainWaves è un progetto di rappresentazione delle informazioni ricavabili da un sistema complesso come il cervello umano, condotto presso la Georgia Tech University dagli studenti del laboratorio per l’ingegneria neurale del prof. Steve Potter. →
Gli atti di frode hanno un particolare (controverso) posto nella storia delle arti performative (performing arts). Essi sono riconosciuti come performance di sfida. Ciononostante i reali problemi con la legge le mettono →
CD – Planet Mu/Goodfellas
Nell’elegantissimo e suggestivo artwork apocalittico di Arnold Steiner dell’AS1 Projects si presenta a noi il nuovo album di Aaron Funk, meglio conosciuto come Venetian Snares, dissonante protagonista dell’elettronica →
Connecting worlds la prima mostra dopo lo stop temporaneo delle attivitˆ dell’ICC di Tokyo, e questa giˆ di per se una buona notizia. Curata da Yukiko Shikata, tratta del concetto di comunicazione →
CD – Persistence Bit
Andy Vaz, produttore e dj tedesco dall’indiscutibile talento, pubblica adesso proprio su una label italiana, la Persistence Bit di Alessandro Vaccaro, che ha base operativa a Catania, città →
dvd video – Blackchair, Microcinema – MC-547
La vj culture è’ tangibile in molte opere video contemporanee. I germi della narrazione non lineare (che sono stati abilitati e diffusi dagli strumenti software →
CD – Very Friendly / Tigerbeat6 / Wide
Non si risparmia di certo Miguel Manuel De Pedro, in arte Kid606, guastatore sonico che all’insegna d’un simpatico titolo agita una dance elettronica grassa →
É cominciata il 13 settembre a Berlino la quarta edizione di Wizard of OS, il festival di software e conoscenza libera (edizioni precedenti nel 1999, 2001 e 2004). Uno dei temi →
