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 – Crónica
Sottolinea di non essere propriamente un sostenitore della “musica per la meditazione”, l’autore di Reduced To A Geometrical Point, David Lee Myers, seppure abbia constatato che alcune costruzioni audio sembrano incoraggiare una postura di permanenza nel momento. →
LP – BEMIS
Da Languages as Art: Documentary History of Broadcasting: 1920-1950, attraverso tecniche di appropriazione, remixing e campionamento, Juanjosé Rivas ha estrapolato le fonti sonore e testuali che vanno ad organizzare un nuovo costrutto critico e auditivo sul tema →
Book + CD – 901 Editions
Sono cinque i differenti brani musicali elaborati da Steve Roden che vanno a completare Gradual Small Fires (And A Bowl Of Resonant Milk). L’opera è stata commissionata dalla new media school dell’University of →
2CD – Editions Mego
Come si possono decodificare quelle che sono le caratteristiche uditive fondamentali di un’emissione sonora? Hecker ha implementato più ricerche e attivato vari progetti nel corso della sua attività compositiva e a questo proposito ha utilizzato in →
10″ – Ediciones Éter
Sono tre le composizioni che Ross – per Ediciones Éter, l’etichetta experimental colombiana di Miguel Isaza e Alejandro Henao – dedica a field recording sottomarine di megattere, una specie di balene perlopiù costiere particolarmente nota per →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Il compositore Hannes Seidl e il media artist Daniel Kötter collaborano oramai da poco più d’una decade e, dopo essersi dedicati in passato a performance musicali – prima sul tema delle opere d’arte e del tempo libero, →
LP – Dialogo
Fra le storiche uscite della Cramps, etichetta italiana fondata nei primi anni settanta, focalizzata principalmente sulla musica progressiva ma attiva anche sul versante di una ancora acerba scena contemporanea, non poteva certo sfuggire al fine d’una auspicabile →
CD – Shelter Press
La lunga suite, concentrata in un’unica traccia di quasi quaranta minuti, che dà vita a Perceptual Geography, un progetto musicale di Thomas Ankersmit edito da Shelter Press, è stata ideata per essere utilizzata in performance dal →
LP – Staalplaat
386 DX è indubbiamente uno dei progetti più ammirati di Alexei Shulgin, uno dei “net.art heroes”, come venivano definiti negli anni 2000, autore di opere seminali e testi storici fra cui il celebre “Introduction to net.art” insieme a →
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 →
