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 – Constellation Records
Negli ultimi anni molto ha nuociuto a tutta la comunità artistica internazionale – e in particolare ai musicisti – la pandemia che abbiamo attraversato e che di fatto non è ancora completamente superata, seppure in molte →
CD – Raster
Se “la società futura agisce già su quella presente”, la vita degli anni ottanta, quello che Franck Vigroux chiama senza mezzi termini “un periodo terrificante”, era già permeata da una forte alterazione del rapporto fra naturale ed →
CD – Not On Label
Dall’incontro di due sperimentatori come Kasper T. Toeplitz e Marinos Koutsomichalis, ben consapevoli di quanto le tecnologie digitali abbiano inciso sulle pratiche musicali contemporanee, sia a livello compositivo che performativo ma anche come strumento →
CD – empreintes DIGITALes
La nozione di docu-fiction è centrale nell’approccio che Yves Daoust ha applicato negli ultimi anni sia all’acusmatica sia a quello che viene definito in quegli ambiti musica mista – e cioè, composizioni che presentano una parte →
LP – OUS
“La musica ci dà l’illusione che il tempo non sia tempo, ma spazio. È allora che la musica si trasforma da processo a oggetto”, così Noemi Buchi, che trova molto interessante una materializzazione del processo sonoro, perentoriamente →
2LP – Unsounds
Andrea Stillacci, ex dj e critico d’arte contemporanea, fondatore e presidente dell’Herezie Group, ha chiamato a raccolta per un doppio LP navigati sperimentatori sonori quali Eraldo Bernocchi, Andy Moor, Ji Youn Kang, Moor Mother, Fani Konstantinidou, Yannis →
In the work “Entropophone | La qualité de l’air” by artist Filipe Vilas-Boas, the anonymous video stream of a surveillance camera is transformed into a musical score: Each car detected triggers a sound as if it were the hole in →
Holt/Smithson Foundation / The Warehouse Dallas, English, 108 pages, 2022, USA
Nancy Holt was an artist who experimented with a variety of media, and this catalogue focuses on her audio works. In particular, her →
CD – kranky
Il compositore è “colui che unisce le cose” e poco importa se questa considerazione sia scaturita quasi per incanto mentre Christina Vantzou si trovava sull’isola di Syros, nel Mar Egeo, per un’esibizione a un festival cinematografico. Quel →
Whispering by Ali Miharbi is a series of sound art installations. These are made of pneumatically activated 3D-printed acoustic resonators, most of which are modelled on the human vocal tract. The flow of air through the different versions produces human →
