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.
Shitkatapult,
CD+DVD
, Strike134, 2011
Ci sono voluti dieci anni per Markus Popp/Oval per tornare con l’album (“O”) che ha cambiato radicalmente il suo approccio nei confronti dei suoni classici (con batteria, →
Sub Rosa, Book+DVD, ISBN: 978095 5736117, SR314, 2011
Trattando il suono come memoria e coinvolgendo un certo numero di differenti professionisti si possono ottenere risultati molto interessanti. “Sounds From Beneath” è il →
Il disastro di Fukushima Daiichi, causato dal terremoto del Tōhoku nonostante i sofisticati sistemi di prevenzione attivi in Giappone e la solida reputazione del paese nella gestione delle calamità naturali, ha riacceso un →
Störung/Cameo, Book+DVD, str009, 2012
Per diverso tempo, la natura effimera dei festival (eventi nei quali è possibile rapportarsi ad opere d’arte, conferenze e live acts che terminano →
Unnamed soundsculpture e’ un video prodotto da onformative e chopchop, realizzato da Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer. Una nube di 22000 punti, generata in corrispondenza dei movimenti di una ballerina che da’ la sua libera →
Il rapporto fra arte e natura è consolidato da tempo – anche se perlopiù a livello estetico – ma quello che fa Kuai Auson, va ben oltre la classica osservazione. La sua installazione “0h!m1gas”, →
Whitechapel Gallery, ISBN-13: 9780854881871, 240 pages, 2011, English
Sembra che ci sia una sorta di sottogenere tra i libri sulla sound art: l’antologia di testi storici. Forse perché l’arte del →
Crónica, dvd, Crónica 063, 2011
Il ‘field recording’ come pratica nella musica sperimentale è esplosa nel corso del 2000. Utilizzato nei modi più svariati, essa trascende la sua natura →
La capacità di rendere il magnetismo terrestre percepibile è stata sviluppata originariamente per facilitare la navigazione marittima. Dovendo fare affidamento sulla bussola, i marinai sono stati consapevoli dell’instabilità del campo magnetico terrestre per secoli, →
