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.
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0367356774, English, 162 pages, 2020, UK
Automating Vision, The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness
emerges from the fact that we now live among “seeing machines” of various kinds equipped with sophisticated computer vision →
We have yet to fully understand the dimension and cultural implications of the post-industrial deterioration, with media archaeology on one side reconstructing processes and trajectories, and chemistry on the other to save us from the consequence of that decline. “High →
CD + book – Fancyyyyy
Con un packaging il cui design si deve a Joe Gilmore e alle raffinate manipolazione di font di Florian Hecker, stampato in due distinti colori, argento metallizzato e nero, con un libretto di trenta pagine →
Organscape by Xoan Xil is an installation formed by “Organismo I”, an ensemble of delicate kinetic machines designed to emulate the repertoire of natural world sounds, with four short corresponding pieces for organ (Organscape I – IV), obtained from the →
CD – Important
Ogni traccia di questo progetto a firma mHz – all’anagrafe Mo H. Zareei – prende il nome da una funzione matematica, che viene quindi utilizzata come unico motore di generazione del suono, allo scopo di dar vita →
MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262039648, English, 136 pages, 2019, USA
When design enables an underlying structural revelation, it transcends its usual purpose of supporting the enjoyment of content, elevating the printed medium to a higher level. This is →
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), or the “tingling sensation moving down the back of the neck and upper spine”, has inspired the production and upload of millions of YouTube videos designed to induce it. The powerful physical feeling induced from →
CD – Unsounds
Qual è la sottile linea di demarcazione fra un live, il lavoro di studio ed essere parte di un’installazione artistica dove un consistente numero di persone sarebbe confluito in maniera pressoché continuativa? Yannis Kyriakides e Andy Moor →
Attached to a future ‘neutrino telescope’ experiment in 2023, a device will be submerged 2.6 kms deep into the Cascadia Basin (Pacific Ocean) in the North of California. This device is Jol Thoms’ “Radio Amnion” project, a platform which commissions →
Vinyl 12″ – 4Bit
Le tracce Nok che vanno dall’uno alla sei furono originariamente pubblicate dalla Mego nel 2000 come mini-cd 3”, adesso sono state rimasterizzate dai nastri DAT originali e tagliate in vinile da Kassian Troyer a Dubplates & →
Gruenrekorder, ISBN-13: 194491607760, English, 120 pages, 2020, Germany
“un|sounding the self — a portrait” is a film portraying two composers, Christopher Shultis and Craig Shepard, whose trajectories are in dialogue. The first person tale of their personal experiences →
Pioneering media artist Bruce Nauman has dedicated a good part of his life to exploring his own condition as artist. He used his own studio as the stage for performances involving himself during the 1970s and 1980s, until in “Mapping →
Vinyl 12″ – Moozak
Brigitta Bödenauer e Susanna Gartmayer, ovvero BBSG, Black Burst Sound Generator, allo stesso tempo titolo del progetto e moniker del duo, definizione che è derivata dalla tecnologia video analogica, non fanno mistero di scure pulsioni musicali →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1517907082, English, 416 pages, 2019, USA
Variations on Media Thinking is a much needed selection of Zielinski’s texts for non-German speakers, made of eighteen translated essays, produced over several decades. The →
