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.
cassette – Crónica
Per i primissimi cultori delle sperimentazioni contemporanee – parliamo ovviamente della musica d’avanguardia sviluppatasi nella seconda metà del Novecento – il nome di Pauline Oliveros è quello d’una figura chiave non solo per l’utilizzo non convenzionale del →
The dream of entering a symbolic dialogue with an animal species is probably as old as language. We pretend to “talk” to animals, and to get answers. When it comes to non-anthropomorphic species, the process is even trickier and leaves →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262038904, English, 288 pages, 2018, USA
We might attempt to place Spotify historically as the most recent milestone in the universal digitalisation of music after Napster, iTunes and the iPod/iPhone. But the major shift with →
LP – Gruenrekorder
Nel novero delle estetiche retrofuture è sicuramente da menzionare questo Sounds of the Projection Box, un atto di riverenza per le tecnologie d’antan che si deve a Michael Lightborne, artista e Associate Professor al Department of Film →
Neural #61 extra is an intervention by artist Jane Birkin. Her ’#officetruism’ is made of a set of ten coloured different postcards with statements about ‘office culture’. A page on Neural #61 shows the postcards juxtaposed, but in grey →
Neural 61, Speculative Pink + extra: #officetruism by Jane Birkin. Abbonati ora!
Issue #61, Autumn 2018 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald’s “Man/Woman in the Middle” is an artwork applying the computer security “man in the middle attack” (an agent altering the communication between two entities), to their own relationship. They set up a server intercepting their →
Strange Attractor Press, ISBN-13: 978-1907222665, English, 264 pages, 2018, UK
There seems to be a consistent interest over the last decade in “hauntology” (as Derrida called it) and media over time, periodically re-emerging in art: “Awake Are →
CD – Opa Loka
Bart van Dongen & Richard van Kruysdijk, ben oltre la specifica tradizione contemporanea del piano preparato, operano oggi dando vita a una coerente e ancora musicalissima collaborazione, utilizzando quello che sicuramente è il più classico fra →
Soundwalk is a term defining the act of walking while focusing on listening to the surrounding environment. Nao Tokui’s “Imaginary Soundwalk” is an installation where the viewer can freely use Google Street View while an AI system is playing sounds →
Riverside Architectural Press, ISBN-13: 978-1988366098, English, 433 pages, 2018, UK
This anthology of papers revolves around the relationship between the philosophical concept of ’techné’ (“the principles or methods employed in making something or attaining an objective”) and →
CD – Tzadik
Okkyung Lee è una violoncellista sudcoreana di scuola improvvisativa, artista piuttosto eclettica che già dal 2000, anno del suo trasferimento a New York, ha lavorato mettendo assieme molteplici ispirazioni, come solista e in progetti collaborativi, fra jazz, →
Alla base di ogni studio sullo sviluppo dell’Intelligenza Artificiale c’è sempre una forte ricerca intorno a chi di artificiale poco ha…l’uomo. L’essere umano e i propri sensi che le IA provano a replicare, l’essere umano e i propri limiti che →
Errant Bodies Press, ISBN-13: 978-0997874426, English, 144 pages, 2019, Germany
One of the characteristics of experimental music and even more of sound art, is that they have allowed musicians to permeate their work with specific →
