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 – Line
Accompagnato dagli apporti di artisti quali William Basinski, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, Cosey Fanni Tutti e King Congo Powers – certamente non soltanto voci prestate ma anche menti creative e consapevoli di tutto quello che un’ambientazione sonora può →
CD – FFSpace
Subito risalta dalla pila delle nuove uscite da recensire questo Body In White, ultima fatica di 14Circles, grazie a un package in parte di plastica trasparente e in parte cartonato, la cui grafica è affidata a V4W.ENKO →
CD – Minus Habens
Apre subito l’album la title track, “Vulkan”, segnata dall’interessante voce di Carmen Buss e da trattamenti piuttosto delicati e quasi ambientali, quietisti nelle sequenze che sono guidate da tenui armonie e scansioni d’origine electroide. Si passa →
CD + booklet – 4BIT
Ha subito il sapore di una traccia tipicamente dub, il primo brano di “Songs For William 2” di Ulrich Troyer, manipolatore e mente creativa tirolese, oramai di base a Vienna, artista in bilico fra illustrazione, →
CD – Bed Of Nails
Vede la luce su Bed Of Nails questo nuovo lavoro di Shifted, autore che ricordiamo pure sotto i moniker di Alexander Lewis, Covered In Sand, delete_everything e Pacific Blue, oltre – in gruppo – per →
CD – Aagoo
A marchio Aagoo Records e con un elettronica in definitiva abbastanza scarna ma avventurosa nonché piuttosto eclettica, torna Blevin Blectum, artista avvezza nel costruire sequenze soniche intriganti, per nulla convenzionali, abilissima nell’innescare citazioni ed influenze provenienti da →
CD – Geometrik
Sonorità piuttosto cupe e attorcigliate, cerebrali, dense di ripiegamenti elettronici vecchia maniera, con emergenze auditive alquanto industriali e rumoriste, frammiste a droni, inserimenti percussivi di taglio elettroacustico e rappresi →
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 – Psychonavigation
La Psychonavigation è una label irlandese con base a Dublino, focalizzata stilisticamente in bilico fra ambient, electronica ed electro, il suo head honcho Keith Down è anche – in questo caso →
CD – Artek Sounds
Sono per lo più balbettii vocali, una sorta di gibberish nel quale una serie di parole difficilmente decifrabili vengono emesse conquistandoci all’ascolto. Parliamo di “Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes”, →
