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+Flexydisc – Pulver & Asch
“Usimende”, primo brano in scaletta di Cemento dei Niton è subito fascinoso, notturno e molto immaginifico, assolvendo perfettamente al compito d’introdurre sonorità con particolare cura lavorate, sognanti e in qualche modo neo-psichedeliche o krautrock. I →
CD – Thrill Jockey
Anche un oscuro compositore come Bogusław Schaeffer (ma non così oscuro da essere confuso con Pierre Schaeffer, il teorico della musica concreta) può assurgere a raffinato espediente per le manipolazioni elettroniche dei Matmos, ovvero →
CD – No Type
Nell’avanguardistica San Francisco degli anni novanta, metropoli iniettata di cultura cyber e visioni di un futuro comunque impredicibile, gli interessi di un giovanissimo Eryk Salvaggio – all’intersezione tra scienza, arte, ricerca e tecnologia – gli fecero →
LP + booklet – Noton
Originariamente composte per una performance di danza dal titolo Oval, diretta da Richard Siegal ed eseguita dallo Staatsballett Berlin all’Opera di Stato di Berlino nel 2019, queste otto composizioni di Carsten Nicolai, sotto il moniker →
LP – Concentric Records>
A marchio Concentric Records, questa nuova prova di Tobias Freund subito colpisce la nostra attenzione per la citazione felliniana di copertina, un Marcello Mastroianni in La Città delle Donne, opera cinematografica che a sua volta vantava →
CD + book – 1970/Silentes
Con un curriculum che comprende sperimentazioni rock-elettroniche negli anni novanta – con i Meathead e a fianco di Teho Teardo – Cristiano Deison ha poi virato verso ancor più concettuali e ricercate esperienze, utilizzando nelle →
CD – Thrill Jockey
Dopo “Dimensional People”, album del 2018 che ospitava interventi di 50 musicisti andati poi a formare un’orchestra che includeva robot percussivi e apposite app per smartphone, risultando in un live intrigante grazie anche al software MoMinstruments →
CD – Opa Loka
Richard van Kruysdijk, aka Cut Worms, torna sui passi delle sue due precedenti uscite sempre su Opa Loka – Cable Mounds e Lumbar Fist – ribadendo in Breath Mule una distintiva e ibridata estetica che →
3 x Vinyl – Axis
“Ci sono molti modi per immaginare il futuro” e su questo è immediatamente chiaro Jeff Mills, icona techno, leggendario produttore e dj che anche in passato ha esplorato modelli più sperimentali e artistici di spettacolarità, →
CD – Denovali
Sono atmosfere dagli umori alquanto esotici, cinematici e fascinosi, quelle dispensate per Denovali da Oliver Doerell, Roger Döring e Alex Stolze, band belga-tedesca conosciuta come Dictaphone. Gli accordi suadenti, sin dalla prima traccia di questo Goats →
