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 – Persistence Of Sound
The Eccentric Press di Iain Chambers è un progetto commissionato dal Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln e ABC Radio National/Australia. La prima è un’emittente radiotelevisiva pubblica locale del Land tedesco della Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia, l’altra, una →
Blind Landing is an interactive installation by the artist Jooyoung Oh. It is composed of a helmet that tracks brain waves and eye movements, and artificial intelligence software that analyzes the forms of the video frames. When the helmet is →
Wiley, ISBN-13: 978-1119453017, English, 136 pages, 2019, UK
This issue of AD is a timely one and a visual feast to understand an ‘architecture without people’ which is “made for and by our machines”, in Young’s words. →
LP – FRAC Franche-Comté
Provenienti da un copioso archivio di mini-cassette, in Dictaphones di Charles Pennequin sono raccolte registrazioni di letture, monologhi, voci ed esperimenti vari di poesia sonora, materiali spesso anche inediti che sono stati accuratamente conservati per più →
AI now plays a decisive role in contemporary image making, both as the perceived ‘new dimension’ of visual culture, and as an engine that allows us to edit and produce new parafictions. Artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate →
MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262039383, English, 480 pages, 2019, USA
In this new anthology for MIT Press, Kahn reveals an ambition to do something similar for the energetic as he did for the field of audio →
CD – Fang Bomb
Al clarinetto basso c’è Kai Fagaschinski, all’organo, al Buchla e a vari ammennicoli elettronici Paul Baran, al flauto Antoine Beuger, alla chitarra Werner Dafeldecker, al sassofono microtonale Sergio Merce, alla voce soprano Lavinia Blackwall, ai sintetizzatori →
Measuring phenomena, making them readable in the form of numbers, producing data, creating models to guide future choices, is a feverish process around us. We let ourselves be guided by devices programmed by others to make choices, modulate behaviors, take →
Polity, ISBN-13 978-1509516780, English, 240 pages, 2019, UK
This is a long overdue book, written by one of the founders of the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization), who arranges the flow of electronic literary experiments within their intrinsic →
LP – Gruenrekorder
Con il proliferare d’un certo interesse – vero o presunto – per l’ecologismo e i temi ambientali, il “verde” ha oramai invaso qualsiasi specifico delle espressioni artistiche, siano queste decisamente mainstream, oppure esibiscano caratterizzazioni più controculturali e/o →
If we compare different representations of the Universe in different cultures at different moments in time, we confront very elaborated and imaginative systems, all trying to cope with an unknown structural dimension and scale. Nicolas Montgermont’s “Axis Mvndi“, cosmic radio →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13 978-0816683123, English, Spanish, 448 pages, 2018, USA
Beyond its obvious appeal to Science Fiction lovers and Science Fiction Studies, this book is a methodological investigation of tools and composition techniques used in →
2 × Vinyl, LP – NLS
Subito dai primi solchi, Ficciones di Paul Prudence emana un ipnotico senso di straniamento e seduzione, soprattutto in virtù di sequenze delicatamente cosmiche e meditative, con infinitesimali emergenze auditive, field recording ed elegantissimi trattamenti →
Learning from the digitised past and present, and then acting, somehow, in response. This seems to be the mantra of the current AI compulsion, crossing industrial and now cultural fields. In art it translates into ‘reading’ big chunks of art →
