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 – Serotine
Anthony Laguerre e Les Percussions de Strasbourg mettono in scena in Myotis V un dispositivo di percussioni amplificate che intreccia sia suoni organici che elettronici, dilatate sequenze free form e sussulti elettroacustici, nenie esotiche e trasalimenti minimalisti. →
6CD – Auryfa | Metaphon
Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982 è un cofanetto da 6 CD – curato congiuntamente da Auryfa e Metaphon – che riunisce per la prima volta in ristampa la serie di cassette e vinili autoprodotti dal compositore rumeno-francese →
2CD – Gruenrekorder
Un primo cd con ventuno tracce approntate da Sergio Armaroli, artista sonoro e multistrumentista attivo nell’area free form e sperimentale, seguito da una seconda parte in cui Steve Piccolo propone trenta brani. Due percorsi distinti ma idealmente →
LP – Corvo
L’Makina di Gilles Aubry riprende il titolo di una canzone degli anni Trenta del celebre musicista L’Haj Belaid, dedicata a uno dei nuovi media dell’epoca: il fonografo. Come accade spesso nella storia della musica, l’arrivo di strumenti →
cassette – Edições CN
Sei solo sulla bicicletta, fendendo l’asfalto umido sotto il neon delle insegne. La tua app di mappe gracchia comandi metallici nell’auricolare, algoritmi che decidono il tuo percorso attraverso il labirinto urbano. Hai appena abbandonato il calore →
CD – Room40
Pinkcourtesyphone è un progetto musicale ambient-drone fondato da Richard Chartier, artista sonoro losangelino attivo ormai dal lontano 1998. Già solo la combinazione di “pink”, “courtesy” e “phone” evoca un’estetica nostalgica e surreale, decisamente confermata dai soundscape onirici →
10″ – Futura Resistenza
Diversi sono i precedenti in musica sul tema della lamentazione, che affonda le sue radici nelle antiche tradizioni funebri e nelle espressioni di dolore collettivo. Queste composizioni, diffuse in molte culture, hanno dato voce al lutto →
CD – No Type
Dall’incontro tra Érick d’Orion e Martin Tétreault prende forma una collaborazione che unisce due approcci distinti ma complementari, maturati nel corso di una lunga militanza in scene musicali certo poco convenzionali. D’Orion si è fatto conoscere →
LP – Stray Signals
Sono sequenze assai crude e spettrali quelle che ci accolgono in “Over the last land” – prima traccia delle undici comprese in The Right Half , opera a quattro mani di Davide Luciani e Jorge →
CD – FibrrRecords
Orgone è il termine con cui, agli inizi degli anni Quaranta, lo psichiatra e psicoanalista Wilhelm Reich indicava una presunta forma di energia universale, immateriale e onnipervasiva. William Burroughs, nel romanzo The Ticket That Exploded, descrive a →
