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 – Denovali
Sotto l’alias RDTK e per la Denovali Records sono finalmente assieme due vecchi amici, Ricardo Donoso e Thiago Kochenborger, entrambi brasiliani di nascita e oramai da anni per strade differenti, lontani dalle loro prime sperimentazioni in un →
It is quite hard to be completely aware of our addiction to screens. Being increasingly exposed to the combination of specific sizes, light and colours has probably produced archetypes in our mind, which are easily triggered when a similar presence →
Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0674728943, English, 280 pages, 2018, USA
Over the years the encounter between software’s dynamic qualities and the visualisation of information has been nurtured by entities of different natures: commercial, technological, aesthetic, and political. →
LP – aussenraum
Il progetto Biblioteq Mdulair – sì, scritto proprio in questo modo – prevede un setting composto da circa 15 generatori di funzioni analogiche al servizio degli svizzeri Emma Souharce e Daniel Maszkowicz, concettuali sperimentatori interessati anche →
Alex Adriaansens was simply one of the best persons I’ve ever met among thousands.
Trough the foundation and development of V2_ he put Rotterdam on the map as one of the leading cities in new media art since the early →
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / ICA London / Koenig Books, ISBN-13: 978-3960983620, English, 200 pages, 2018, Germany
Metahaven (Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden) has, over the years, almost literally ’augmented’ their trademark style of art →
10” vinyl transparent – Tonometer
Christian Skjødt in questo progetto, nato inizialmente come installazione sonora realizzata per un deposito vinicolo del XVIII secolo nel giardino botanico di Riga, trae ispirazione dal contesto site-specific, evocando tutta l’energia del luogo – proveniente →
In the “Data Shop” installation, lots of colored tin cans are placed on shelves, similar to those normally used in supermarkets, perfectly ordered by colour in columns, as if they were encased in a structured matrix. The graphics on →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262037945, English, 248 pages, 2018, USA
Andersen and Pold have dedicated years to the study and analysis of computer interfaces, particularly through net art, software art and, more recently, the electronic literature scene. →
CD – Sofa
Ingar Zachn, mente creativa a capo della Sofa Records e percussionista norvegese, in Before Nightfall One ha collaborato con altri due esperti musicisti votati a questa specialissima forma musicale, indubbiamente una delle più ataviche espressioni artistiche dagli →
Marta de Menezes has a long record of daring bio-art, in some parts deeply questioning our concept of identity. In her “Anti-Marta” she has performed a skin transplant between her and her partner Luis, using an autologous graft as control. →
Hatje Cantz, ISBN-13: 978-3775744539, English, 224 pages, 2018, Germany
The complexity and the multi-disciplinarity of the Anthropocene are among the main causes of its still weak cultural and political impact, contrasting an already slightly devastating ecological one. We paradoxically →
CD + book – Aagoo
Per molti compositori contemporanei e soprattutto negli alvei della sperimentazione più tendenziosa e concettuale, dopo la sbornia audio-video tra la fine degli anni novanta e le prime due decadi del Nuovo Millennio, sembra adesso essere →
The visualisation of data and processes is usually associated with the clarifying of concepts, enhancing crucial parts. And we praise both the computational power of our machines, and their hardware facilities including the connection, the hi-res displays, or the anthropomorphic →
