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 – Thrill Jockey
S’incomincia con un omaggio all’artista e attivista Gustav Metzger – uno dei padri fondatori della pittura cinetica e teorico della auto destructive art – e nella composizione il sovrapporsi di voci e campionamenti è subito →
CD – esc.rec.
Sono composizioni tutte risalenti al 2019 quelle del nuovo album di Francisco López per esc.rec., dalle gestazioni molto differenti – registrate fra Den Haag, Milano, Riga, Praga, Mmabolela e Loosduinen – e che sono infine state selezionate →
7″ one sided – Kvitnu
Se la scelta di non dire è tuttavia un atto linguistico il saluto che Kotra e Zavoloka rivolgono al loro pubblico come ultimo atto della Kvitnu – prima di chiudere definitivamente l’etichetta – è doppiamente →
10″ Vinyl – Arbitrary
Terzo capitolo su Arbitrary della serie lanciata da Mads Emil Nielsen, Framework, un progetto focalizzato su partiture grafiche aperte e disegnate a mano e che include traduzioni soggettive del compositore danese. Nielsen, che è cresciuto in →
Una Sonic Bike è una bici che riproduce suoni seguendo movimenti e velocità del ciclista, grazie a due altoparlanti posizionate sul davanti sotto il manubrio e a un sistema di tracciamento audio georeferenziato tramite GPS. I suoni generati sono mappati →
CD + BOOKLET – Swarming
Eric La Casa ci ricorda implicitamente che tutti gli ambienti che ognuno di noi frequenta costituiscono un ecosistema personale di città – un mondo a sé – e che ogni spazio architettonico racchiude, a misura →
Vinyl 12″ – Le Cabanon
Thomas Pujols, produttore francese che utilizza il moniker Nebulo, è avvezzo a insistite sperimentazioni utilizzando perlopiù sintetizzatori polifonici, con i quali esplora armonie e dissonanze, costruendo microtonalità e altre scale tonali che sfuggono alle norme →
12″ Vinyl – Research and Waves
Per l’etichetta berlinese Research and Waves, un progetto artistico curatoriale di Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Maria Karpushina, Gustavo Méndez Lopez, Norman Neumann ed Henrik Nieratschker, è uscito un vinile dodici pollici composto da parole, una sorta →
cassette – Crónica
Cosa accomuna le nanotecnologie, i processi innovativi industriali di sicurezza alimentare e la musica di ricerca? Il fascino neanche poi tanto discreto di certi ambienti sonori basta da solo ad ispirare un intero album di contemporanee sperimentazioni? →
Mo H. Zareei’s ”Material Music” features eight kinetic sound-sculptures made of an electromechanical actuator striking identical blocks of different solid materials, respectively brass, copper, aluminium, steel, hardwood, softwood, glass, and marble. The shifts in striking time are calculated through phase-shifting →
