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.
2CD – Two Acorns
La parola 谢 谢 (xièxie) è composta da due caratteri cinesi, la cui traduzione significa “grazie”, forse un semplice omaggio alle persone incontrate durante un viaggio fra Shanghai e Hangzhou, che l’autore Will Long ha compiuto →
CD – Moloko Plus
Il modernismo in musica – con forti riferimenti estetico-filosofici sia al design d’interni che all’architettura – non dovrebbe essere simbolicamente ascritto solo al patrimonio dell’exotica e della vulgata lounge, che furono all’origine del controverso revival degli →
LP – Edition Telemark
Suono e arti visive, installazioni e performance. Con un’attitudine in bilico fra il multidisciplinare e il concettuale, William Engelen – limburghese che vive e lavora a Berlino – ha elaborato per le Edition Telemark questo Today, →
CD – Swarming
Attira subito la nostra attenzione l’iperrealistico artwork accompagnato da un raffinato booklet di dodici pagine a colori. Friche : Transition è il progetto collaborativo d’esordio per Eamon Sprod ed Eric La casa – il primo, artista sonoro →
2CD – XI
Cecilia Lopez è una compositrice, musicista e multimedia artist argentina, avvezza ad esplorazioni sonore molto coinvolgenti e delicate, pulsanti e reattive, qui costruite per strati sovrapposti e facendo uso di piccoli altoparlanti e microfoni a contatto. →
LP – Fragment Factory
Suffering For The Promised è un progetto sonoro di Stefan Roigk che è stato in gestazione per ben quattordici anni, suscettibile d’entusiasmi, cedimenti, riprese e rielaborazioni, momenti nei quali non si era più certi sul da →
CD – Crónica
Cosa può succedere quando strumentisti, vocalist, ricercatori, artisti sonori, programmatori e un filosofo si mettono assieme al fine di sperimentare nuove tecniche d’interazione musicale? Trondheim EMP è un collettivo d’oltre una trentina di membri che ha deciso →
Neural 63, Surveillance Surveyed. Abbonati ora!
Issue #63, Summer 2019 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Puoi anche abbonarti all’Edizione Digitale e consultare le precedenti edizioni fino alla numero #29.
Oppure puoi comprare la rivista in oltre 200 rivenditori vicino a te. E’ →
Le teorie sulla nascita delle specie viventi sono molteplici e forse anche vere, o vere solo in parte. Nonostante le discrepanze, le incertezze e gli ovvi sviluppi, la convinzione di partenza è un concetto semplice, quasi banale, sicuramente evocativo: la →
Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-1478001454, English, 312 pages, 2019, USA
The strenuous task of defining ethereal ‘sound’ as an ‘object’ can be compared to Yuk Hui’s effort to outline ‘digital objects’. The formulation of a ’sound object’ has →
LP – SVS
Quella dipanata in Crocodile dal monacense Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, aka BELP, è un’elettronica alquanto raffinata e di nicchia, tipica di quel limbo che va dallo sperimentalismo più radicale a musicalità estetizzanti ma in qualche modo ancora ritmiche →
The introduction of custom machines into performance art has been well-established since the early 20th century, an extension of communication that anticipated cybernetic extensions of the body. During the 1990s, in particular, performative groups labeled as ‘cyberpunk’ like La Fura →
Shelter Press, INA GRM, ISBN-13: 978-2365820318, English, French, 228 pages, 2019, France
There’s bravery in starting a new printed periodical publication on experimental sound, even in a manageable paperback book format. ‘Spectres’ is a small but dense →
CD – Kvitnu
Sono dieci le futuristiche tracce elegantemente costruite da Dmitriy Avksentiev, aka Voin Oruwu, sound artista che dopo Big Space Adventure, doppio LP pubblicato nel 2018 per Private Persons, approda adesso alla Kvitnu di Dmytro Fedorenko e →
