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.
Arts Formation / Waag / Fact / Transmediale, English, 320 pages, 2023, The Netherlands
Art practice consists not only of creation, exhibition, criticism and documentation. In artistic uses of media, there has always been a need →
Transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3837657005, English, 360 pages, 2023, Germany
There is a hyper-fragmentation of media in the digital world, from the news reduced to tweeted titles to the average 42-second videos on TikTok. The over-consumption →
Goldsmiths Press, ISBN 978-1913380144, English, 400 pages, 2023, UK
The pace of change in the ever-shifting global ecology of media has increased dramatically with the ubiquitous role of social media-driven smartphones. Information flows have mutated into →
Nandita Kumar’s From Paradigm to Paradigm, into the Biomic Time is a layered work. Developed with a team of collaborators during the DAAD residency in Berlin, it consists of a bespoke machine resembling a newspaper press that prints deconstructed political →
V2, ISBN 978-908289355, English, 128 pages, 2022, The Netherlands
If, as Carvalhais claims, works of art are no longer representational but rather ‘processes’, then calculation in art is consequently a crucial element. In this book, he →
Sternberg Press – Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, ISBN 978-3956795886, German, English, 376 pages, 2022, UK
This edited artist’s monograph is dedicated to Zach Blas, an artist and writer whose work explores technology and politics. Published after the →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-151790218, English, 328 pages, 2022, USA
It has become increasingly difficult to define what a laboratory is as the term is applied to any concentrated set of activities in a →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190065713, English, 294 pages, 2020, UK
In the essential process of reversing perspective from the traditional human-centred view to ecology as a whole, new strategies for analysing media systems can provide a →
Valiz, ISBN: 978-9492095817, English, 552 pages, 2021, The Netherlands
This book is a 360-degree tour of the role of the graphic designer and the recognition of their specific weight in communication. The book is divided into →
Christoph Merian Verlag, ISBN: 978-3856169497, English, German, 146 pages, 2020, Germany
This is not a typical catalogue for an eponymous exhibition. “H.o.m.e – Home For Obsolete Media” at Kunsthaus Langenthal was curated by Raffael Doerig, →
