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 – Non Visual Objects
Puntuale registrazione di un concerto tenuto da Christophe Charles agli SND Studios di Sheffield, Inghilterra, nel marzo del 2009, performance dall’intrigante titolo, “Perché c’è qualcosa piuttosto che →
Continuum Pub Group, 296 pagine, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0826429711
Il titolo di questo libro è significativo: tutto parte infatti dalla celebre definizione di →
Nel primo Manifesto surrealista (1924) il Surrealismo è stato definito in termini di automatismo: “automatismo psichico puro, attraverso il quale si cerca di esprimere, verbalmente, per iscritto o in qualsiasi altro modo, il →
CD – Ant-Zen
Elaborazioni in guisa di sonorità dark ambient, rarefatte e possenti nelle influenze krautrock, modulate in passaggi assai sperimentali, rendono particolarmente interessante e suggestivo questo ritorno di Scott Sturgis, produttore di →
Spogliare l’opera di Ludwig van Beethoven della componente musicale ed eseguirne solo il tempo: questa è l’operazione concettuale alla base di “Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, no. 1 – no. 14” di Samson →
L’entità di una stoffa si misura solitamente toccandola. Facendo scorrere un tessuto tra le dita, lo spessore del filato e le distanze tra la trama e l’ordito determinano la sensazione della pesantezza soffice →
The Secret Sounds of Spores è un’ installazione realizzata da Yann Seznec insieme allo studioso di funghi Patrick Hickey. Come il titolo lascia intuire, l’intenzione di Seznec era quella di sonorizzare, dunque di →
Le installazioni sonore spesso si sviluppano nello spazio piuttosto che nel tempo lineare della musica. In “another soundscape”, Chung-Kun Wang reintroduce il tempo musicale e lo rappresenta spazialmente secondo il modello della notazione →
I registratori a bobine sono dei dinosauri rispetto alle digital audio workstation in uso oggi e i più navigati sono ben contenti di non dover più mettere mano alle forbici per montare →
errant bodies – records, #05, 2009
“Vorrei che il mezzo fosse dentro di me”, afferma Leif Elggren in un’intervista con Brandon La Belle, il proprietario dell’etichetta errant bodies. Il disagio che caratterizza →
