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 – Akousis Records
Xavier Charles al clarinetto e Bertrand Gauguet al sassofono contralto sono un duo ben solido, che può vantare diversi anni d’esperienza con continue collaborazioni a partire oramai dal 2013. Queste di SPECTRE, pubblicazione su CD realizzata →
CD – 901 Editions
Adam Basanta in Circular Arguments ancora una volta sembra focalizzare la sua operatività obliqua nell’organizzazione multisensoriale di coreografie variabili tra microfoni, altoparlanti, sistema cinetico, spazi fisici e software personalizzato. L’attenzione di questo artista sonoro è da →
CD – King Tree
Possono delle ossessive e ripetitive sequenze sonore imprimersi sino allo sfinimento, facendo proliferare fra le pieghe del loro riproporsi momenti più sintetici, ritmici e tagliati? Evidentemente il compositore bristoliano Ryan Teague tiene a questi fraseggi in →
CD – Thrill Jockey
Emptyset, ovvero James Ginzburg e Paul Purgas, nel corso dell’ultimo decennio hanno pubblicato ben sette LP ed un numero – nel complesso – ancora più significativo di singoli, EP, compilation e dj mix. Blossoms, la →
“A Woman with the Technology” by Ziyang Wu is a complex process focused on AI and the so-called ‘filter bubble’. It starts by selecting a series of keywords close to the artists’ focus. His daily activity is then recorded and →
CD – Denovali
Sono molte le influenze agite in The Dusk Loom di Petrels, moniker dietro il quale si cela Oliver Barrett, autore il cui precedente album – sempre per Denovali – risale al 2016. Le trame ellittiche dipanate in →
3CD + booklet – Nakama
Può la musica presentare con un altro linguaggio la filosofia buddista? In New Rituals Christian Meaas Svendsen prova che sia possibile, esplorando il rapporto tra forma e libertà, tra la cultura occidentale moderna e →
Vinyl – Aussenraum
Suoni sinusoidali, feedback interni ed esterni, sciabolate di noise stridulo e infettivo, come pure concrezioni droniche iteratissime, sensibili e sibilanti. È questo il catalogo di frequenze con le quali s’impatta all’ascolto di Ganglions, un audio-progetto di Gaudenz →
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. →
