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.
USB flash drive – Computationally Infeasible Records
‘Noise Vs. Subversive Computing’ è un progetto collaborativo che gravita in quanto a suggestioni sonore nella sfera dell’ambient-noise più sperimentale, raffinato ed immaginifico. Non sono – →
CD – Strukto
Non è certo il primo progetto dall’artwork di colore nero, anche se qui oltre al cartonato esterno con la scritta ‘Black’ a rilievo, risalta impeccabilmente “neutro” e scurissimo anche →
CD – Evil Rabbit
A un inizio subito inquietante, modulato facendo leva su vocalizzazioni gutturali stridule, innervate da efferatezze rumoristiche ed improvvisative, Robert van Heumen, intervenendo su laptop e controller, fa seguire →
CD – Free Software Series
Audioabuso estremo quello di Rubén Patiño, aka Pato, sound-designer originario di Barcellona, una metropoli che secondo lo stesso autore sarebbe da posizionare – come atmosfere – in bilico →
CD – ZeitKratzer
Prima d’una serie di tre uscite su Zeitkratzer Records, dal titolo ‘Electronics’, che sarà stampata prossimamente anche nel formato d’un 3CD boxset, in questo progetto, Carsten Nicolai →
![[sic] Tim Goldie - Abjector [sic]](/images/TimGoldie_Abjector.jpg)
2CD – Hibari
Intrecci aspramente digitali, improvvisazioni a matrice percussiva, audioabuso, distorsonie ed utilizzi estremi della voce umana, mettono a dura prova in questo doppio “Abjector”[sic] di Tim →
CD – Staalplaat
Texture elettroniche complessivamente di matrice space, che evolvono in sghimbesci tagli sonori, comprensivi di mozzati elementi testuali: il nuovo Mort Aux Vaches di Tarek Atoui al primo impatto non →
3 CD – Erratum
Uscita non proprio ultimissima ma dal carattere antologico e quindi per molti ancora interessante, ‘Erratum #4. Sound review. Noise + Art →
CD – Raster-Noton
Fa un certo effetto riconoscere nel booklet, nelle vesti d’una assai compassata gentildonna inglese d’oggi, Christine Carol Newby, aka Cosey Fanni Tutti, abbracciata →
CD – Alku
Una collaborazione iniziata oltre dieci anni fa, che ha dato origine a svariate performance e progetti musicali, quella tra Helmut Schafer & Zbigniew Karkowski, conclusasi con →
