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 – Shitkatapult
Coaudivati da Thomas Fehlmann, nelle vesti di produttore esecutivo, il duo composto da Max Loderbauer e Tom Thiel ha segnato nella decade passata l’evoluzione dell’ambient-techno. In bilico fra sperimentalismo →
CD – Cronica
Delicatissimi droni, fluttuanti atmosfere, rarefatte partiture ambient e glitch, frammenti d’un universo letterario (quello di Proust nella ‘Recherche’, più volte citata come principale fonte d’ispirazione da Jorge Mantas, →
CD – Amorfon
Davvero uno splendido album, ‘Bourgeois Magnetic’, intriso d’evoluzioni per lo più pianistiche, sensibili, cristalline, sospese ed eteree. Una produzione che risale al 1981, anno nel quale questo progetto fu →
CD – Extreme
Sequenze atmosferiche improvvisative, astratte e sensuali, meticolosamente articolate da Luca Formentini, sperimentatore bresciano e chitarrista ‘colto’, in prestito adesso all’etichetta australiana Extreme. Vantando ospiti quali Markus Stockhausen, Steve Lawson, →
CD – Low Impedance
Architetture silenti, desolati paesaggi urbani, spazi vuoti e corrotti, una generale visione distopica di quello che sembra un possibile destino per le nostre città, sembra pervadere l’ispirato →
CD – Geometrik
Sotto l’alias di Nad Spiro, Rosa Arruti sperimenta concatenazioni elettroniche, droni ed ipnotiche melodie, permeate da elementi click’n’glitch. Pulsioni ambient soffuse nelle arie space e nel sound-design che riporta →
CD – Pogus
Didgeridoo aborigeni, ‘conch shells’ (conchiglie della tradizione musicale induista, spesso suonate durante le cerimonie religiose), ‘waterphones’ (strumenti ad acqua, utilizzati in genere nell’ambient music e derivati da strumenti →
CD – Ostgut Ton/Kompakt
No, non sono quelli di ‘Shut Up And Dance’, celeberrimo combo londinese (ad Hackney), qui si parla tedesco, grazie al Berghain Club che ha commissionato →
CD – Glacial Movements
L’estetica agita tra i solchi delle sei dilatate ed eleganti incisioni che compongono il nuovo progetto di Netherworld, alias di Alessandro Tedeschi, fondatore della Glacial Movements, è volutamente assai →
2CD – Poeta Negra
Fra click, droni, gliccerie ed elementi melodici soavemente in sospensione procede fluidissimo il nuovo progetto di Spyweirdos (moniker di Spyros Polychronopoulos), limpido nelle geometrie esibite, sperimentali e sensibili, evocative →
