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.
LP – Sonic Pieces
Sul periglioso crinale che collega virtualmente gli ambiti concettuali specifici della drone music, del dark ambient, dell’experimental e del modern classical, Jacob Kirkegaard insieme a We Like We – combo composto da Josefine Opsahl, Katinka Fogh →
umland editions, ISBN-13: 978-9082649543, English, 196 pages, 2019, Belgium
The ‘space of sound’, or the place where sound is perceived, can be interpreted as a philosophical space. It is the internal space where sound is physically interpreted, and →
The possibilities to create objects with the digital, which are both familiar and alien, are infinite, because it can abstract any materiality into malleable information. “Void“ by Félix Luque, Damien Gernay and Iñigo Bilbao exquisitely demonstrates this point. It’s a →
CD – Denovali
Samuel van Dijk – anche conosciuto come Mohlao e VC-118A – torna al suo moniker Multicast Dynamics e su Denovali dà vita al suo quinto album per questa etichetta. Subito dalle prime sequenze è chiaro l’approccio ambientale. →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262043052, English, 232 pages, 2019, USA
The determining power of hashtags has long been proven: the role of spontaneous acronyms in the past has more recently been taken over by hashtags. NSFW →
The space for politics has shrunk, either ’deported’ to social media and online spaces in general, self-ghettoized in homogeneous circles or lost in the crowd of leaders’ profiles, not to mention the pollution of human and bot paid troll armies. →
CD – Protagoniste
I clarinettisti Xavier Charles e Jacques Di Donato avevano già collaborato assieme nei lontani anni novanta. pubblicando anche un album, Du Slavon Glagol, edito nel 1996 da Khôkhôt. Adesso ritornano con quattordici nuove composizioni su Protagoniste, facendo →
Jap Sam Books, ISBN-13: 978-9492852144, English, 368 pages, 2019, The Netherland
The Netherlands have a specific history of media art, which is recounted in this perfectly laid out, full colour volume. Huisman and van Mechelen edit →
With the recent surging of AI as an agent of change in creating realistic artefacts, the established art categories have started to be questioned (as everything else which can easily be falsified by software). The further steps of these processes →
LP – Le Cabanon
Scritto, prodotto e mixato nel Madagascar nord-orientale da Clovis Lemée – musicista e condirettóre della Cabanon Records, meglio conosciuto come Horla – questo LP vuole essere un tributo alla natura selvatica, all’animismo e all’essenza misteriosa →
UV Éditions, ISBN-13: 978-2956275329, French, 312 pages, 2019, France
There are very few radical and outstanding figures like Tetsuo Kogawa in media art. His work on radio as a liberating medium in unparalleled as a personal →
Our fauna of digital devices is not only made of screens, but also of various kinds of sensors, which are scanning and digitising the reality in multiple concurrent ways. Julien Clauss’ “Ground Noise” is a situated media work. He has →
CD – Circum-Disc
Il set organizzato da Peter Orins per Happened By Accident è assai scarno e privo di strumentazione elettronica. Nelle sette composizioni presentate quello che distinguiamo sono soprattutto percussioni, alle quali s’aggiungono oggetti, ciotole, legni e conchiglie. Occorre →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190949990, English, 264 pages, 2019, UK
It’s been more than two decades since Erik Davis’ Techgnosis kindled a collective interest in the mystical impulses underpinning the rise of information technologies. Believing in Bits reconvenes →
