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 – SVS
Quella dipanata in Crocodile dal monacense Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, aka BELP, è un’elettronica alquanto raffinata e di nicchia, tipica di quel limbo che va dallo sperimentalismo più radicale a musicalità estetizzanti ma in qualche modo ancora ritmiche →
Shelter Press, INA GRM, ISBN-13: 978-2365820318, English, French, 228 pages, 2019, France
There’s bravery in starting a new printed periodical publication on experimental sound, even in a manageable paperback book format. ‘Spectres’ is a small but dense →
CD – Kvitnu
Sono dieci le futuristiche tracce elegantemente costruite da Dmitriy Avksentiev, aka Voin Oruwu, sound artista che dopo Big Space Adventure, doppio LP pubblicato nel 2018 per Private Persons, approda adesso alla Kvitnu di Dmytro Fedorenko e →
CD – Elli
Quello del silenzio – nelle sue molteplici e differenti sfumature – è un tema che sempre nell’evolversi di teorie e approcci ha fortemente coinvolto i musicisti d’avanguardia. Ne consegue che ad alcuni fra questi il silenzio possa →
Re:Voir, Blu-Ray/DVD + book, English, 2019, France
Joost Rekveld is one of the few artists who seamlessly integrates various scientific fields in his film practice. This selection of his movies is meant to be his most representative, →
CD – Arteksounds
Forte d’un impatto scenico modulato fra vocalità estreme, audio sperimentalismo e performing art, Stephanie Pan ha presentato Have Robot Dog, Will Travel, progetto che è stato anche supportato da Ensemble Klang durante il Festival Dag in de →
CD + booklet – Aagoo
Sotto il moniker Piles agiscono i batteristi, percussionisti ed improvvisatori Guigou Chevenier, Anthony Laguerre e Michel Deltruc, musicisti attivi fra Nancy ed Avignone, in Francia, che adesso su Aagoo pubblicano l’album Una Volta, comprensivo di →
2CD – Sub Rosa
Alla Sub Rosa, celeberrima etichetta expermental diretta da Guy Marc Hinant e Frédéric Walheer non sono nuovi nel dar vita a sensibili intrecci discografici in bilico fra rievocazioni critiche e contemporaneità, così come nel corso degli →
CD – Chmafu Nocords
Sono tre le composizioni di Katharina Klement – risalenti alla stagione che va dal 2014 al 2015 – selezionate per questa interessante uscita elettroacustica, scrupolosamente conformate per andare ad arricchire il vasto ed eclettico catalogo della →
CD – Mikroton
Angélica Castelló e Jérôme Noetinger non sono nuovi singolarmente alle scene sperimentali internazionali, la prima messicana, compositrice e sound-artista, ben conosciuta per la sua particolare ricerca musicale, focalizzata su temi quali la fragilità, il mondo dei sogni →
