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 – Fluid Audio
Un album ispirato alla psicologia della Gestalt e alla “topologia del blu” non è certo cosa di tutti i giorni, seppure nel corso della storia altri artisti, musicisti e filosofi – e non solo contemporanei – →
Certainly one of the most interesting experimenter ever in writing with technologies, Mez Breeze has transversed online eras with remarkable practices. Her new work The V[R]erses is a microstory experienced through 3D rendered forms, which have text ‘nodes’ as →
Vinyl – Javier Lloret
Sin dal 1985 WordNet è un database semantico-lessicale per la lingua inglese, una classificazione gerarchica che descrive il mondo, ispirata alle teorie della memoria semantica umana sviluppate alla fine degli anni ’60. A differenza di quella →
The abstraction imposed by the digital is mirrored by the previous abstractions created by humans, such as language, signs and, more generally, artificial representations. In Peter AC Nelson’s “The Data Stones”, this abstraction occurs at multiple levels. It overlaps with →
Cassette – Crónica
Anche all’interno d’una natura apparentemente selvaggia come quella del Kruger National Park, in Sudafrica, un’area subtropicale assai vasta, attraversata da svariati fiumi e dal Tropico del Capricorno, che comprende le province di Limpopo e Mpumalanga, è possibile →
The dream of vocal assistants is speak to a machine whose behavior is indistinguishable from that of a human. But behind this dream lurks a global team at Amazon that reviews Alexa customers’ audio clips of all kinds of utterances. →
CD – Blank Forms
Maryanne Amacher, allieva di Karlheinz Stockhausene e George Rochberg, già nel 1967 crea City Links: Buffalo, un’opera di 28 ore dove utilizza 5 microfoni in diverse parti della città, trasmettendo il tutto in real time tramite →
Neural 65, Post-Growth + extra: Redirecting Networks + extra: Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe. Abbonati ora!
Issue #65, Winter 2020 ISSN: 2037-108X
L’extra esclusivo per gli abbonati (Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe. by Louise Drulhe) →
Neural #65 extra is an intervention by artists Louise Drulhe in the form of a booklet and a critical text (“Beyond Lines and Nodes”) by Kristoffer Gansing (ex artistic director of Transmediale).
In the words of Druhle:
“Through a →
Spector Books / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ISBN-13: 978-3959053501, German, 146 pages, 2019, Germany
The multiple artistic endeavours of Carsten Nicolai have been acknowledged in numerous exhibitions and performances all over the world. Parallax Symmetry is a recent retrospective →
2 x Vinyl – Counter Audition
Sono due gli splendidi 12” in vinile, in edizione bianco-latte – con i suoni masterizzati da Taylor Deupree – compresi nella doppia elegantissima confezione che si deve a una nuova etichetta di Cambridge, la →
10CD Box – Reiger Records Reeks
Sono più di dieci ore d’inviluppi sonori quelli contenuti in Scanning di Roland Kayn e presentati in un elegante cofanetto comprensivo di 10 CD, rimasterizzzati da Jim O’Rourke, che del maestro di Reutlingen, seminale →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262042857, English, 432 pages, 2019, USA
Since the eighties (and the false prediction of full Artificial Intellifence by the end of nineties), the dream of AI has been grounded on building a →
2×12″ – Makiphon
Debuttano le MME dUO – Patricia Koellges e Tamara Lorenz – e per farlo scelgono Makiphon, label experimental di Colonia gestita dalla prima assieme ad Andreas Oskar Hirsch. Quello della coppia è un appassionato collage sonoro di →
