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.
Aalto University, ISBN-13: 978-9526088228, English, 272 pages, 2020, Finland
The anthology “Field_Notes” included Erich Berger, director of the Bioart Society, among its editors. To celebrate its tenth anniversary (and collaboration with the organisation Biofilia at Aalto University) →
Vinyl 12″ – Not On Label
“Detox/Retox” è una traccia della durata di cinque minuti che subito c’intriga all’ascolto. Aspre emergenze elettroniche e una malinconica melodia sono mescolate incastonando suggestioni ambient e un certo gusto westernato, attingendo da diversi generi →
Onomatopee, ISBN-13: 978-9493148161, English, 260 pages, 2019, The Netherlands
Despite the fact that this book is extremely contemporary, it seems to emerge from the best traditions of 1970s-1980s counterculture. The author has a diversified background and quite →
Vinyl 12″ – Slimvolume
Le produzioni raccolte in questo vinile afferiscono nel complesso a uno sperimentalismo modernista forse non particolarmente in sintonia con le ultime avanguardie, anche se il tutto è ben congegnato e dà vita ad un interessante collage →
CD – Persistence of Sound
Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra è una compositrice argentina di gran valore che già nella prima metà degli anni sessanta collaborava con il dipartimento di ricerca dell’ufficio di radiodiffusione televisiva francese (ORTF), lavorando con il Groupe de →
CD – Cat Werk Imprint
Sono nove le composizioni che Olivia Louvel raccoglie in questo album, ispirato alla vita e ai testi di Barbara Hepworth, scultrice modernista inglese, contemporanea di Henry Moore e scomparsa nel 1975 in un drammatico incendio →
The deep-fake is one of the most groundbreaking digital cultural phenomena of the 2010s. It helped to demolish the last remnants of trust in mass media, developed over decades of journalism and editing in general. It has been quickly adopted →
12″ vinyl – BIN
Non è reticente Anders Monrad sulle combinazioni in parte bizzarre intervenute nella gestazione del suo terzo album. “Queste tracce si basano su suoni prolungati creati nel mio iniziale tentativo di programmare un sintetizzatore granulare in Pure →
CD + poster – Aagoo
L’album DnT nasce da una collaborazione fra Jerome Noetinger e Anthony Laguerre, entrambi sound artisti e ingegneri del suono, musicisti sperimentali piuttosto colti ed esperienziati, che nel 2018 si sono incontrati nel Centre Culturel André →
CD + booklet – Urbsounds
Sono ben diciassette le tracce che Dj Balli, con la complicità dell’Allievo e di MC Shell8bit, apparecchia per l’etichetta slovacca Urbsounds. Si tratta di composizioni rigorosamente titolate con la stessa dicitura – seancè – e →
Mimesis Edizioni, ISBN-978-88-5754-212-6, Italian, 304 pages, 2019, Italy
In molte delle pratiche artistiche contemporanee le conseguenze di alcune sperimentazioni oramai lontane temporalmente riescono ancora a imporre nuovi significati e a determinare inedite evoluzioni e fronti stilistici. Certe →
2xLP – Staalplaat
Charlemagne Palestine, un compositore che al primo impatto ci riporta alla tradizione più vibrante e sperimentale della musica moderna statunitense – quella, per intenderci, di autori come John Cage, Philip Glass, Terry Riley e La Monte Young →
CD – Own Release
I temi dell’interiorità, della trasformazione e del rinnovamento del mondo avevano già ispirato il precedente album di Vitor Joaquim, Impermanence, così come il suo progetto HAN con Emídio Buchinho. Questo nuovo Nothingness, pubblicato in proprio, continua →
CD – Kvitnu
Preziosa ristampa di uno storico rilascio dei Pan Sonic, Oksastus, un lavoro che in origine fu pubblicato dalla stessa etichetta Kvitnu nel 2014, quando già il duo non esisteva più da quattro anni. Gravitoni, il loro ultimo →
