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 + booklet – Aagoo
Sotto il moniker Piles agiscono i batteristi, percussionisti ed improvvisatori Guigou Chevenier, Anthony Laguerre e Michel Deltruc, musicisti attivi fra Nancy ed Avignone, in Francia, che adesso su Aagoo pubblicano l’album Una Volta, comprensivo di →
Cameras, recognition software, walls, borders … we are growing more and more accustomed to sacrificing humanity and privacy in the name of some sort of promised security, or even for much less. The ideological and practical boundaries between what is →
Black Dog Press, ISBN-13: 978-1910433225, English, 192 pages, 2018, UK
The seminal “See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception”, in 2011 created waves in the design community. Illustrating cutting edge sensory-based projects developed over time, this new volume →
2CD – Sub Rosa
Alla Sub Rosa, celeberrima etichetta expermental diretta da Guy Marc Hinant e Frédéric Walheer non sono nuovi nel dar vita a sensibili intrecci discografici in bilico fra rievocazioni critiche e contemporaneità, così come nel corso degli →
The sun has recently acquired a symbolic role as the frightening, inevitable, overheating agent in our challenging environmental future. Nicky Assmann’s “The Abysses of the Scorching Sun” is a kinetic installation with a light machine pointed towards the direction of →
Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9089648891, English, 358 pages, 2018, The Netherlands
“Why the 1970s”? This central question relates to the radical and comparatively significant production of underground social movements and media in that particular decade. Guerilla Networks →
CD – Chmafu Nocords
Sono tre le composizioni di Katharina Klement – risalenti alla stagione che va dal 2014 al 2015 – selezionate per questa interessante uscita elettroacustica, scrupolosamente conformate per andare ad arricchire il vasto ed eclettico catalogo della →
Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak are not new in interweaving media and textiles, creating original works that mix them for activist purposed (The Knitted Radio). Their ““The Embroidered Computer” uses historic gold embroidery materials and specific knowledge in craft to →
Art Book Magazine, ISBN-13: 978-2821600959, English, 194 pages, 2018, France
In digital art, one of the first reference point is the (im)materiality of the subject with the many repercussions it has in its creation and design. →
CD – Mikroton
Angélica Castelló e Jérôme Noetinger non sono nuovi singolarmente alle scene sperimentali internazionali, la prima messicana, compositrice e sound-artista, ben conosciuta per la sua particolare ricerca musicale, focalizzata su temi quali la fragilità, il mondo dei sogni →
Jaime E Oliver’s “Caracoles iv” is a project that extends the scope and physical properties of an ancient Andean musical instrument: the pututus. It is a conch shell that used to be played by cutting the apex of its spire →
Tate Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1849763691, English, 224 pages, 2018, UK
This is the catalogue of an excellent exhibition, held at Tate Modern, historically reconstructing the relationship between abstraction and photography. Organised into four periods, this history of visual →
CD – Sofa
Il sassofonista Espen Reinertsen e il trombettista Eivind Lønning sin dal 2005 collaborano sotto il moniker Streifenjunko, spesso suonando – oltre il lavoro di studio e le collaborazioni con la Christian Wallumrød Ensemble – anche in numerosi →
A hybrid of organic and inorganic elements, animated with kinetic electronics can easily seem as though it might come to life. Hye Young Sin’s “Time-piece” perfectly fits with this observation. The installation is a six-meter long small, kinetic world made →
