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 – Baskaru
I rintocchi di una campana stanno risuonando per il paese sei volte e dopo una pausa riprendono più potenti e continui, in sottofondo si sentono cinguettii, poi in altre sequenze quietiste sono i cinguettii che rimangono appena →
2CD – Dragon’s Eye
Immaginate uno spazio neutro, come una grande stanza con un buco nel suo soffitto, una sala il cui perimetro è dotato di panchine e che permette agli osservatori di guardare il cielo come se fosse inquadrato, →
CD – Marsèll
Roberto Paci Dalò torna su Marsèll Records, uno dei “progetti speciali” dell’omonimo marchio di calzature artigianali, arte e moda, etichetta sulla quale nel 2013 aveva pubblicato Ye Shanghai, opera audio-visiva basata sulla storia del ghetto di quella →
CD – Kalerne
I suoni emessi dai pipistrelli di Taiwan possono sembrare ad un primo approccio un tema decisamente poco convenzionale per un compositore le cui attività principali si rivolgono alla musica concreta, all’improvvisazione, all’elettroacustica e alla fonografia. Yannick Dauby →
3“ CDR – 1000füssler
Pubblica la 1000füssler un interessante 3“ CDR abstract-experimental che si deve alla maestria di Yan Jun, artista di base a Beijing coinvolto a più livelli e in differenti ambiti dell’elettronica contemporanea, dall’improvvisazione alla ricerca site-specific, dalle →
12″ – Le Cabanon
Crypto Tropic arriva dalla Le Cabanon Records, una label creata nel 2013 che promuove nuove grafiche e paesaggi sonori. In questo caso la definizione è onnicomprensiva sia dell’ultimo progetto musicale di Nebulo (Thomas Pujols) e →
CD – Gruen
Unter Grund è stato presentato nel 2014 negli spazi dello Zollverein, sito dell’Unione doganale tedesca che è patrimonio mondiale, nell’ambito del festival NOW/ Parallele Welten. Quella installazione sonora di 26 canali è adesso condensata nelle registrazioni effettuate →
LP – Aussenraum
Similmente alle vicissitudini del terrorismo e dei grandi complotti internazionali, anche i disastri – soprattutto quelli nucleari come Chernobyl e Fukushima – sono accadimenti che attivano una sorta di memoria collettiva, d’inconscio planetario, che creano nuove narrazioni →
