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 – Gruenrekorder
Erano decisamente altri anni – anche musicalmente – quelli nei quali iniziarono a conoscersi Christina Kubisch e Annea Lockwood. Attorno al 1975 la scena musicale sperimentale newyorkese non era poi cosi internazionalmente nota e anche se la →
Revolver Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-3957633910, English, 362 pages, 2018, Austria
In a history of media art social organisations, the Time’s Up collective deserves a special place. Founded in Linz by people leaving the activist space Stadtwerkstatt, led by →
Artificial Intelligence has found its place in the hearts of artists and designers much more than it seems to have done in the average population. The “living machine” has become a place of illusion in confidence and disillusion when the →
CD – Opa Loka
Sembra di stare sotto l’influsso d’un immanente sottosopra, come in Stranger Things, la serie televisiva statunitense ideata da Matt e Ross Duffero, oppure in “Dark”, un altro classico contemporaneo della sci-fi distopica. L’ambientazione è quella d’uno →
Valiz, ISBN-13: 978-9492095268, English, 304 pages, 2017, The Netherlands
Fate and the notion of archive is at the core of an increasingly visible debate, triggered by art institutions’ involvement in the global digitalisation of culture. The digital →
Il vento può modificare l’udito di una voce udibile, grazie al più rapido movimento dell’aria. Portando più velocemente le molecole d’aria, può generare suoni accidentali, propagando anche la nostra voce lontano o anche solamente vicino, a seconda della sua direzione. →
CD – Monotype Records
A marchio Monotype Records (esattamente è la loro uscita numero novantatré) Christian Kobi raccoglie per l’occasione tre composizioni al sax tenore solo, una al sax soprano e per la quinta (quella centrale nell’album) invita Wakana Ikeda →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190226992, English, 712 pages, 2018, UK
Even arguably stemming from concepts like “generative” and “automatic” what is exactly meant by “Algorithmic Music” ? The two editors of this sumptuous anthology give a specific definition: →
Le tecnologie immaginate del passato, specialmente quelle formulate come racconti fantastici, possono essere paragonate a molti prototipi assemblati nel XX secolo e mai prodotti. L’artista Tania Candiani ha indagato un testo indiano (Vaimanika Shastra) sulla tecnologia aerospaziale, citando “Vimana”, veicoli →
CD – Kontrans
A marchio Kontrans arrivano Tomomi Adachi e Jaap Blonk, sperimentatori improvvissativi straordinari, dei veri specialisti nell’interazione voci ed elettroniche. È proprio il musicista giapponese, in un video del 2013, a renderci edotti della sua operatività in musica, →
Luiz Zanotello pensa che interpretare le differenze e stabilire i confini stia generando “ansie spaziali” soprattutto perché siamo inclini a una mediazione tecnologica che sta accentuando la nostra crescente incertezza. Egli interpreta poi questi sentimenti nella sua installazione “The Aerographer”, →
Anche se non lo conosciamo o non lo notiamo, tutta la nostra società è il prodotto di metodologie introdotte all’inizio del XX secolo, principalmente il fordismo e il taylorismo, concepiti per ottimizzare la produzione industriale, aumentando scientificamente l’efficienza dei lavoratori. →
Univocal/University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-1937561697, English, 100 pages, 2016, USA
Il rapporto tra il mondo della musica e quello della letteratura è stretto, grazie ai suoni condivisi, a qualche tipo di struttura, e soprattutto all’immaginario che →
LP – Auf Abwegen
Tropic viene presentato da O Yuki Conjugate – un gruppo post industrial/ambient fondato a Nottingham nel 1982 – ricordandoci che si tratta di una raccolta di brani dimenticati, in parte incompleti e inediti, registrati a Londra →
