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 – 12K
Approda su 12K Simon Scott, sound artista di Cambridge, cittadina inglese nella quale ancora conduce magistralmente un’altra meritoria etichetta discografica, la Keshhhhhh Recordings, marchio pure dedicato a sperimentazioni digitalissime →
CD – Murmur
Utilizzando field recording, video, annettendo altri rarefatti suoni e facendo uso di una superficie di proiezione multischermo, Yann Novak & Robert Crouch imbastiscono una fascinosa narrazione →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Vive e lavora a Parigi, Rodolphe Alexis, sound artista e designer dalla verve sperimentale, avvezzo nel manipolare field recording, meticolosamente editate in occasione di questa uscita Gruenrekorder implementando piani-sequenza →
CD – Kalerne
Francese di nascita ma dal 2007 residente ed operante a Taiwan, Yannick Dauby sperimenta con field recording, assemblando di frequente anche suoni scaturiti da →
CD – Aural Terrains
Nelle forme d’una riflessione sulle implicazioni emozionali, psicologiche e fisiologiche, incentrata sulle parole “casa” e “territorio”, i suoni alla base di questo progetto includono parole, storie raccontate, →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Possono essere assai differenti le ragioni che portano un audio-artista a circoscrivere in maniera specifica l’ambito delle proprie “catture” sonore. Nel caso di Ernst Karel sono i numerosi sistemi di trasporto tipici delle località montagnose ad →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Il fiume Mekong è uno dei corsi d’acqua più lunghi dell’Asia. Nasce in Tibet ed attraversa la Tailandia, la provincia cinese dello Yunnan, il Myanmar, il Laos, il Vietnam ed →
CD – Valeot
Attilio Novellino è un musicista-sperimentatore originario di Catanzaro il cui suono è fortemente intriso adesso di un oscuro e intenso appeal cinematico, elaborazioni che riecheggiano nenie post-rock, dissonanze →
CD – Degem
Musica concretista, abstract e ambientale, giustapposta insieme a ricerche difficilmente classificabili e field recording, questa è la sostanza – in breve – summa di quattordici differenti autori, selezione edita dalla →
CD – Baskaru
Colpi metallici, uno sparuto vociare, ronzii d’insetti e sirene, oppure un cane che abbaia. Emmanuel Mieville è assai abile nel cogliere momenti di realtà in contesti esotici – le →
