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.
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-1517903268, English, 258 pages, 2020, USA
In Hacked Transmissions, Alessandra Renzi writes about Italian “connective activism”, which involves appropriating and recombining technologies at different levels and in different contexts. She →
3 x Vinyl – Axis
“Ci sono molti modi per immaginare il futuro” e su questo è immediatamente chiaro Jeff Mills, icona techno, leggendario produttore e dj che anche in passato ha esplorato modelli più sperimentali e artistici di spettacolarità, →
The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0262039703, English, 400 pages, 2019, USA
The historical transformation that information technology – and software in particular – has brought to almost all human activities has yet to be fully understood. The →
CD – Prostir
La scintilla che ha dato origine a questo nuovo progetto dei Cluster Lizard – alias che Dmytro Fedorenko e Kateryna Zavoloka utilizzano già dal 2017, mentre adesso sono al loro terzo album sotto tali sembianze – è →
CD + book – Establishment Records
Un viaggio condiviso fra le gelide montagne del Grande Caucaso georgiano, compiuto da artisti provenienti da Armenia, Germania e dalla Georgia stessa. Questo il presupposto di Glacier Music II, uscita particolarmente accurata che si →
CD – Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation
La prima rappresentazione dell’installazione-concerto, La Mode, con musiche di Tomoko Mukaiyama e Yannis Kyriakides, risale al 2016, in occasione dell’apertura del National Theatre di Taichung, a Taiwan. L’opera è stata pensata in quanto elemento auditivo →
CD – Denovali
Sono atmosfere dagli umori alquanto esotici, cinematici e fascinosi, quelle dispensate per Denovali da Oliver Doerell, Roger Döring e Alex Stolze, band belga-tedesca conosciuta come Dictaphone. Gli accordi suadenti, sin dalla prima traccia di questo Goats →
LP – Moozak
Lo sperimentatore elettronico austriaco Nikos Zachariadis e il turntablist free form transalpino Alexandre Bellenger fanno collidere le loro particolarissime sapienze musicali in un duetto che per tutte le prime sei incisione sul lato A dell’uscita tengono banco →
Cassette – -ous
Tommaso Pandolfi, aka Furtherset, torna su -ous con To Live Tenderly Anew, album che arriva dopo le sue precedenti uscite del 2018, ovvero due EP, To Alter and Affect e Drawings of Desire and Hate, pubblicati entrambi →
In 2017 Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba house cleaner, said in an interview that his company could sell customers’ house map data to big-tech companies to develop their products and services. That statement sparked →
CD – Denovali
L’eclettico Robin Schlochtermeier, compositore e sound designer, musicista di formazione classica che non disdegna di prestare la sua opera per il cinema e la televisione, ritorna su Denovali dopo due EP, usciti uno nel 2017 e l’altro →
CD – Ici d’ailleurs
Quelle agite da Geins’t Naït & L.Petitgand sono ambientazioni piuttosto misteriche e inquietanti, intrise da costruzioni melodiche e strati elettronici, inviluppi a volte densi di citazioni industriali, completati spesso da voci sognanti e arrangiamenti cinematici. Alle →
teamVOID‘s “Log” project was inspired by daily updated Covid death figures, and how these lost meaning over subsequent weeks and months. The installation consists of two robotic arms, each engraving an abstract symbol on a transparent acrylic panel every 200 →
2LP – Edizioni Periferia
La carriera di Andy Guhl come musicista improvvisativo prende forza negli anni settanta e solo nel 1983 lo sperimentatore e architetto svizzero smetterà di fare uso di qualsivoglia strumento tradizionale per abbracciare una seminale pratica di →
