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.
Dylan Sheridan‘s kinetic sound art consists of precarious DIY machines, unpredictable automatisms and noises that are welcome amidst other, mostly dissonant sounds. In Random Impulse, a microphone is thrown around by an air compressor with whipping trajectories. This may be →
Cassette – Domizil
In oltre trenta differenti escursioni Claudio Landolt ha accumulato oltre cento ore di registrazioni in prossimità del Vorderglärnisch, una catena montuosa situata nelle Alpi svizzere centrali che domina la valle del Linth nel Canton Glarona. Assai varie →
CD – Prostir
Già “Assemblage Tremor”, prima traccia di questo Radness Methods , ultima opera in solo di Dmytro Fedorenko, aka Kotra, è assolutamente implacabile e annichilente, una sorta di liturgia techno-sciamanica che riporta lo sperimentatore ucraino residente da tempo →
The perceptual dimension of technological artworks has greatly improved in the last decade. For example, if the revamped virtual reality has the advantage of complete visual immersion and an escapist dimension, in a physical space it is certainly more difficult →
CD + booklet – Bruit
È un’edizione decisamente interessante questa della Bruit che va a raschiare il barile della sperimentazione moderna andando a pescare da un repertorio a dire il vero pochissimo conosciuto le prime registrazioni mai pubblicate di quattro →
7″ – Staalplaat
Lloyd Dunn, che per le sue uscite discografiche oramai dal 2009 utilizza l’alias Nula.cc, licenzia per Staalplaat un 7” con solo suoni di cicale e campane. Non vi sono altri apporti sonori se non sparute voci sul →
CD – Raster
L’algoritmo che ha generato le sequenze musicali e anche il testo di presentazione di Neuer Mensch è stato generato da un’altra entità automatica, x1n, ulteriore implementazione di un “nuovo umano”, connessione e metamorfosi fra ancora organico e →
In the development of musical instruments today, traditional forms and systems are often combined with analogue or digital techniques, creating functional hybrids. Lyraei is a musical instrument of this kind by Mihalis Shammas. It is a chordophone with magnetic pulses →
Cassette – CCSS++
La maniera nella quale il concetto di tooling è sviluppato all’interno di quelle pratiche artistiche che sono sostenute proprio dalla costruzione di adeguati strumenti è il complesso oggetto di questa release di Diogo Tudela, un media-artista →
Seduti sul bordo ad una buca simile a quella di uno scavo archeologico: questo è l’assetto per esplorare Arche-scriptures, dell’artista Alberto Harres. Apparentemente l’opera sembra un semplice frammento di ceramica di forma quadrata decorato da un’incisione. Nell’installazione tuttavia le →
