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.
In un impeto di protezionismo, Madonna ha fatto disseminare le reti peer-to-peer di sue tracce contraffatte, simili ai singoli del nuovo album appena sfornato, American Life, in cui al posto del brano vero e proprio c’è un →
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24.04.03 Weekender: 72 ore di resistenza culturale, Gli Occhi di Kassandra, Rennie Pilgrem, Andy Smith, David Holmes, Sister Bliss, Insiders.
– Il 25, 26 e 27 Aprile →
Considerato uno dei più influenti musicisti del novecento Iannis Xenakis è scomparso nel 2001, e per un perverso ma usuale meccanismo la sua opera si avvia ad essere riscoperta e consacrata come avrebbe dovuto già quando egli →
Per i fanatici del vinile da collezione l’ELP Laser Turntable è un dispositivo che innova la lettura dei dischi di lacca nera. Si tratta di un lettore laser per vinile costruito a mano con estrema cura, disponendo →
Il Comparisonics Audio Player, giunto alla versione 2.1, ? un software che permette di osservare un file audio attraverso una rappresentazione colorata della sua forma d’onda. I colori sono associati a suoni simili secondo un algoritmo di →
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18.04.03 Weekender: Rainer Truby, Dj Die, Francesco Farfa, Ralf, Zu, Synthomatic Squad.
– Venerdì 18 Aprile: Al Csoa Cox18, Milano, i concerti di Ex-Girl (trio femminile giapponese →
Atmospherics/Weather Works è una performance, un’installazione e un progetto di software distribuito per sonorizzazione delle tempeste atmosferiche e degli eventi metereologici. I suoni sono generati direttamente dai dati originali del fenomeno in una simulazione dettagliata e fisicamente →
La modernità der suoni elettronici più attuali viene pian piano riconosciuta anche dal sistema dell’arte, The Moderns/I Moderni, è una mostra organizzata al Castello di Rivoli (Torino) sui diversi artisti che incarnano le attuali tendenze moderniste come →
Amorphone è il nome dello strumento musicale creato da Yoshio Machida, per rendere anche dal vivo le sue particolari composizioni di suoni pre-registrati, espressi nella serie di uscite dal titolo ‘Hypernatural’ e pensate per essere fruite in →
Prendendo le mosse dallo Stansford University’s Center Of Computer Research in Music and Acoustic, nella California della beat generation, ispirato dagli studi di un altro ricercatore dei Bell Laboratories, Max Mathews, e grazie al suo supporto, un →
