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.
Il musicista e sperimentatore londinese Leafcutter John (aka John Burton) conferma la sua propensione all’ibridazione di linguaggi e strumenti con Forester v 1.2, un’applicazione per Mac OSX che accompagna il suo quartodisco: The →
dvd – Foton – ISBN 9081078216
Le immagini astratte ed oniriche di Maja Kuzmanovic e Nik Gaffney (in arte FoAM) sono poste elegantemente in sincrono nel progetto denominato ‘In Human Format’ con le sonorità →
Il carnevale è una delle festività non ancora mercificate su scala planetaria da qualche multinazionale del divertimento, o mediatica o di bevande. In Europa le sue antiche radici sono spesso intrecciate con il territorio →
Un’enorme macchina per creare quadri astratti. Così si presenta Giant Painting Machine ultima creazione del newyorkese Douglas Irving Repetto direttore del centro multimediale di musica alla Columbia University. Si tratta di un →
Quali sono le regole che stimolano l’attenzione? In che modo alcuni oggetti o aree di un’immagine catalizzano lo sguardo? Queste le domande che sottendono a View Finder Heatmap, progetto ispirato alle ricerche →
book + dvd – Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 185669490
Questo è il primo compendio di VJ culture adeguatamente documentato. Anche se il vjing è solo uno delle tante possibili relazioni →
cd+dvd video – L’arc d’apparition – ohmavtr34
Time-based media art is a generic label applied to all the arts involving time as one of the mandatory coordinates to experience the works. John Oswald →
dvd video – Lowave – EDV 1394
L’invisible geometria del panorama urbano ha pervaso ogni spazio abitato. La sensazione di essere in modello a grandezza naturale di un pattern ricorsivo di →
Il livecoding consiste nello scrivere un programma, o parte di esso, mentre questo è in esecuzione. Tale pratica perciò connette profondamente la casualità algoritmica con il risultato percepito e, decostruendo la dicotomia temporale tra →
Il cielo è sempre stato un soggetto molto amato nell’arte visiva dei Paesi Bassi. Ora blu ora grigio, coperto o rischiarato, nelle sue infinite declinazioni più intrigante dell’orizzonte verde e piatto dei polders, il →
