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.
LP – Warm
Mathias Delplanque e Guillaume Ollendorff si ripresentano sotto il moniker Ply – dopo Sans Cesse nel 2016 e Cluzel nel 2018, album entrambi, come pure quest’ultimo, a marchio Warm – e subito all’ascolto di “Le roi →
CD – Denovali
Una sinuosa voce femminile racconta qualcosa in lingua koreana. L’incedere della narrazione è piuttosto teatralizzato, avvolgente, caldo e un po’ inquietante. L’elettronica in sottofondo è dipanata in maniera accurata e con atmosfere tese e incalzanti. Orson Hentschel →
CD – Kvitnu
Nuovo studio album – che è edito da Kvitnu – per Plaster, moniker dietro il quale adesso vi è solo Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri (precedentemente in duo con Giuseppe Carlini). Transition rispetto al passato esibisce un →
12” – Le Cabanon
Othello Aubern, classe 1987, vanta origini italiane per parte di madre ed elvetiche in linea paterna, seppure adesso viva ad Omsk, città della Russia situata nell’area siberiana sudoccidentale e capoluogo della regione omonima. Sarà forse proprio →
Lp – Black Chrysalis
Arriva dalla Black Chrysalis Archives – una label indipendente capitolina, focalizzata sulla techno e formatasi durante il 2017 – Dangerous Vision, ultima fatica del bolognese Matter, alias di Fabrizio Matrone, conosciuto anche come Heidseck, sperimentatore avvezzo →
CDr – Kvitnu
Con un raffinatissimo e questa volta anche tattile artwork alla Kvitnu possono essere fieri dell’entrata in catalogo di Exo_C, inedita collaborazione fra Fan Yau – aka Exoterrism – e Carl Cock, quest’ultimo artisticamente noto come c_c. I →
LP – BAU / Sussidiaria
Due le tracce – rispettivamente di 20′ e 34” e di 20′ e 11” – che assieme danno vita a quest’ultima fatica de Le Forbici di Manitù (Manitù Rossi, Vittore Baroni e Gabriella Marconi): “GPS”, →
CD – Sofa
Alla Sofa Music di Ingar Zach e Ivar Grydeland – label sperimentale norvegese attiva dagli albori degli anni duemila – in tutte queste stagioni passate non si sono certo fatti mancare ardite collaborazioni con artisti dai più →
CD – Denovali
Dietro il moniker di Ensemble Economique altri non si nasconde che il californiano Brian Pyle, sperimentatore che ricordiamo in coppia con Merrick McKinlay nel progetto Starving Weirdos, artista molto prolifico e comunque all’attivo già dalla scorsa →
CD – Mego
Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Will Guthrie, Arto Lindsay, Joe Talia, Ricardo Villalobos e Keith Fullerton Whitman senza ombra di dubbio danno vita a una collaborazione assai speciale e anticonformista, innervata da ritmi ripetitivi (probabilmente raccordati proprio dal →
