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.
I design per media player non convenzionali di Yuri Suzuki propongono combinazioni di oggetti che non si fermano a remixare solo il contenuto del supporto da riprodurre, ma i mezzi stessi di riproduzione. Una delle →
CD – Heavy Listening
Wow mantiene fede alla implicita dichiarazione d’intenti già contenuta nella stessa semplice e diretta esternazione del titolo. L’lp è conformato – infatti – a partire da un’unica frequenza →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Possono essere assai differenti le ragioni che portano un audio-artista a circoscrivere in maniera specifica l’ambito delle proprie “catture” sonore. Nel caso di Ernst Karel sono i numerosi sistemi di trasporto tipici delle località montagnose ad →
CD – Cock Rock Disco
Sotto il moniker di Party Catani si nascondono in realtà Patric Cremer, Candle Hank, The Very Impossible Person e Toytone. I membri di questa crew sono tutti →
12″ – Dekorder
È un’edizione sicuramente sontuosa questa scaturita dalle elaborazioni del combo dei Toad Blinker (il musicista Dan Hauhurst e l’illustratore-animatore Reuben Sutherland), a partire dal pesante 12″ in vinile, picture disc “zoetropico” e →
CD – Cronica Electronica
Questa uscita davvero godibilissima e originale è stata prodotta da Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha e Marc Behrens, masterizzata da quest’ultimo insieme a Miguel Carvalhais, al →
12″ – Artkillart
Ad Artkillart – label experimental focalizzata in progetti che hanno come tema l’analisi e il detournamento di tecniche e procedure proprie dell’industria discografica – sono intenzionalmente avvezzi nel →
12″ – Staalplaat
Già solamente guardando in controluce il vinile bianco distinguiamo le tre tracce sonore, incisioni che non presentano le regolari separazioni che è dato ritrovare sulle “normali” stampe discografiche. L’idea è →
CD – Degem
Musica concretista, abstract e ambientale, giustapposta insieme a ricerche difficilmente classificabili e field recording, questa è la sostanza – in breve – summa di quattordici differenti autori, selezione edita dalla →
CD – Room40
Lo sperimentatore nipponico Chihei Hatakeyama viene ricordato per il suo primo album di debutto ispirato alla produzione filosofica di Theodor W. Adorno. “Minima Moralia” fu pubblicato da Kranky Records nel 2006: da lì in poi la ricerca →
