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.
Trevor Paglen never runs short of new ways to use media to conceptually attack the guardians of state espionage, and in his new work, “Weeping Angel”, he is siming his sights at another universal symbol, but this time with a →
CD – GK
Già nel titolo di questo album si fa riferimento alla musica acusmatica, seppure Gintas K non faccia propriamente parte di quelle enclave, preferendo più genericamente la scena sound art e focalizzando il suo lavoro su sonorità granulari, →
Bodley Head, ISBN-13: 978-1847923530, English, 368 pages, 2017, USA
In the early 1990s Jaron Lanier was one of the most interviewed “alternative” celebrities, and quickly appointed as “virtual reality guru” after his important company VPL was founded →
Have you ever wondered how you could get paid for the unpaid labour you do for social media giants? We are still far removed from any fair reward for enabling companies like Facebook or Google to make huge profits. If →
CD – Nakama
Quello fra il malese Goh Lee Kwang (uno specialista di nylon guitar) e il norvegese Christian Meaas Svendsen (provetto contrabbasssista jazz) è stato un incontro davvero poco convenzionale, voluto dalla Nakama Records – responsabile dell’uscita – e →
Edition Digital Culture 5, Migros Kulturprozent, Christoph Merian, ISBN-13: 978-3856168551, English, 288 pages, 2018, German
The “creativity” of machines is a hypothetical quality that emotionally escalates in our minds when they have an anthropomorphic shape, or when, →
What kind of body politics can be meaningfully developed while we live in a world where the representation of our bodies is always going to be radically manipulated on our screens by artificial intelligence algorithms developed by the software industry? →
CD – Spekk
Il terzo album di Andrey Kiritchenko su Spekk subito appassiona all’ascolto per grazia, ricercatezza e piccole armonie, fecondo di trattamenti anche acustici e dalle connotazioni alquanto orchestrali. “Lascio che la musica sia una banderuola della mia personalità, →
Verso, ISBN-13: 978-1786632432, English, 256 pages, 2017, UK
Steyerl is equally an acknowledged artist and a skilled writer, which is quite a rare combination of qualities, especially if accompanied by a lucid and forthright attitude to discussing powers, →
“Playing God” is a classic artist strategy which can be used to mask the rising sense of frustration for our current ecological crisis. Conceiving and implementing functional systems that reconfigure how nature works, instantly show the precariousness of our interventions, →
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 →
