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 – Sub Rosa
Alla Sub Rosa conoscono bene quanto la storia del field recording sia ricca nei suoi differenti approcci e certo in quelle enclave sperimentali non sono estranei al fatto che tali tecniche siano state sviluppate a partire →
Picture Disc – Art Kill Art
Alla Art Kill Art non finiscono mai di stupirci: la tangenziale di Parigi e una fattoria isolata nella campagna francese sono accuratamente analizzate nelle loro emissioni radio e sono oggetto di catture →
CD – Elli
Dopo aver suonato la chitarra in oscure band black e doom metal durante gli anni novanta e aver lavorato su diversi progetti idm di musica elettronica, Alessio Santini, oramai già da quindici anni a questa parte, ha →
CDr – Kvitnu
Con un raffinatissimo e questa volta anche tattile artwork alla Kvitnu possono essere fieri dell’entrata in catalogo di Exo_C, inedita collaborazione fra Fan Yau – aka Exoterrism – e Carl Cock, quest’ultimo artisticamente noto come c_c. I →
Cassette – Crónica
The Waste Land di Luca Forcucci, uscita in cassetta e in digital download per la Crónica Electronica, prende le mosse da un invito a comporre una colonna sonora di 20 minuti per un film documentario. Il compositore →
LP – Aposiopèse
Masterizzato da Giuseppe Ielasi, un sound artista italiano molto stimato e noto nelle “zone franche” della sperimentazione musicale contemporanea, An Incomplete Yet Fixed Idea – album comprensivo su vinile di due distinte parti di venti minuti – →
Fedde ten Berge costruisce diversi strumenti musicali sperimentali, combinando forme e materiali riconoscibili con comportamenti controllati da sensori. ”het Ei” (the Egg) è stato sviluppato in collaborazione con l’esperto di ceramica Frank van Os, e ha la forma di un →
CD – Kota
Per il catalogo della Kotä Records, nelle forme di “un viaggio musicale marittimo” è già sugli scaffali nelle sezioni che si spera dedicate all’ambient, all’experimental o al sound collage, un album suddiviso in quattro componimenti, frutto della →
CD – Denovali
Mei Zhiyong & Dave Phillips si sono incontrati per la prima volta a Pechino nel luglio 2014. Il primo non parlava una parola d’inglese e l’altro – al contrario – non conosceva una sola parola di →
CD – Denovali
In questo suo secondo LP, sempre per Denovali – il primo era stato Feed the Tape nel 2016 – Orson Hentschel mette da parte un approccio complessivamente più experimental e purista per abbracciare contaminazioni pop e influssi →
