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 – Kvitnu
Ritorna all’opera lo sperimentatore argentino Asolaar – del quale ricordiamo lo scorso anno un album su Metaphysik – questa volta sotto le insegne della Kvitnu, label ucraina fondata da Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra), un marchio sin dagli esordi →
CD – LINE
Interior Field, ultima uscita discografica di Richard Chartier a marchio LINE, è una raffinata ed astratta partitura che è stata originariamente presentata al Civilian Art Projects di Washington (USA) nel 2012. L’idea alla base delle intriganti e →
CDR – Agxivatein
Subito l’elegante bianca confezione dal raffinato e concettuale lettering coglie la nostra attenzione e anche scartando il cdr egualmente bianco, con un bordino nero e la parte di lettura delle tracce in nero lucido, senza alcuna scritta →
Box CD+Book – Sussidiaria
Tornano con una lussuosa edizione rievocativa Le Forbici Di Manitù, collettivo che si deve al fantomatico Manitù Rossi, ad Andrea Landini, a Enrico Marani e Vittore Baroni. Automitoantologia si presenta nelle forme di una raccolta di →
CD – Baskaru
La premessa è sibillina: immaginare che una macchina per produrre suoni sintetici possa rifiutare la sua età. Il Synthi AKS era un sintetizzatore analogico portatile prodotto nel 1972 dalla Electronic Music Studios, famoso per il funzionamento a →
CD – Ahornfelder
Reinterpretando a suo modo partiture di Alvin Lucier, Marko Ciciliani, Michael Pisaro e Lars Petter Hagen, collegate idealmente fra loro alla luce di precise scelte poetiche e di campo, Håkon Stene dà vita ad un album che →
CD + DVD – NurNichtNur
Interessante e rigoroso progetto sviluppato su CD e DVD da Florian Wittenburg, 17 Clips vede la luce per la experimental german sound art label NurNichtNur, prendendo a prestito il titolo proprio dalla terza traccia presente →
CD – Farmacia901
La prima traccia è di ventotto minuti dei quali i primi cinque passati in un quasi assoluto silenzio. Dobbiamo alzare consistentemente l’audio del mixer facendo ripartire il cd dall’inizio per concederci la percezione di fievoli emergenze auditive. →
CD – Denovali
Progetto collaborativo che prende le mosse dall’incontro e la volontà di sperimentare nuove strade di tre menti creative, il musicista, compositore di colonne sonore e producer Tom Hill, il visual artista e filmmaker Jim Boxall (aka The →
12″ vinyl/Digital Album – Crónica Electronica
Progetto messo in opera da Giovanni Lami ed Enrico Coniglio, masterizzato da Miguel Carvalhais e con un fascinoso artwork di Dead Meat. Lemuria, nella nostra edizione in vinile, subito ci affascina all’ascolto delle prime →
