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 – Kranky
Droni e frequenze sommesse, apparecchiate in una sorta di psichedelia meditativa, Gregg Kowalsky non è nuovo a sonorità dalle siffatte caratteristiche, sempre utilizzando registrazioni analogiche, manipolando oscillatori e gestendo →
CD – Mort Aux Vachez
Viene presentato il compact disk audio, rigidamente inchiavardato fra tre differenti tavolette in legno di forma rettangolare, tenute insieme per mezzo di cerniere metalliche, poi fissate grazie al →
CD – Prele
Strette fasce in legno, all’incirca – come misura – attorno a una decina di centimetri, poco spesse, raccordate tra loro fino a raggiungere una lunghezza considerevole (anche dieci metri), →
CD – Cronica
Anche se complessivamente assommano a quattordici, le differenti tracce che danno vita a “Lovely Banalities”, seconda uscita su Crónica del sound-artista lituano Gintas K, in opposizione alle molteplici “field →
DVD – Domizil
Sin dalla metà degli anni novanta, dal Kombirama di Zurigo, una certa seminale intuitiva freschezza teorica, che allora – per la prima volta – iniziava ad esser definita con →
CD – Touch
In guisa di tre dense incisioni acusmatiche, Robert Hampson rimarca per Touch non convenzionali attitudini, in modalità assai immaginative votate alla costruzione di complessi soundscape. Sono intrecci costruiti con →
CD – Sudamerica Electronica
Ancora Jorge Haro, compositore, artista sonoro e audiovisuale, head honcho di Sudamerica Electronica, direttore del LIMb0 festival, insiste su registrazioni dalle spiccate qualità organiche, diluite in decostruite partiture, →
2CD – Paradigm Discs
Seminali anticipazioni temporali provenienti da un passato oramai lontano, un’epoca evidentemente nutrita da una differente percezione del “concetto” di futuro, frutto di strategie che già innestavano progettualità assai →
CD – Faitiche
Agglomerato multiforme di più materiali auditivi, insieme di miniature, circolazione coreografica di field recording: non deve stupire se ‘la società per l’emancipazione del sampling’ promette ‘protezione →
CD – Nonvisualobjects
L’hackbrett – o cymbalon – è uno strumento costituito da una cassa armonica in legno di forma trapezoidale, armata da 90/125 corde metalliche, raggruppate in cori di tre o cinque in successione →
