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.
Issue #79 2026 ISSN: 2037-108X
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AI hallucinations are perhaps the least debated AI topic in the media, yet one of the most popular among artists. Przemysław Jasielski’s “Justice Control Unit: Machine for Monitoring and the Instant Administration of Justice” is a bulky machine, reminiscent of →
CD – Penultimate Press
Le due voci iniziali di “The Fly Abstracted Death” dialogano fra loro sopra un intreccio pianistico solo in apparenza disarticolato, solenne e un poco sghembo, che accompagna un altrettanto eccentrico video in bianco e nero popolato →
dpr-barcelona, book, ISBN 978-8412494266, English, 288 pages, 2025, Spain
Establishing Arts at CERN has been a courageous undertaking, as producing artworks within a programme directly linked to the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, consistently combining highly specialised →
CD – Gruenrekorder
Il progetto SoundLapse, promosso dall’Universidad Austral de Chile, nasce con l’obiettivo di mettere in relazione le caratteristiche della fauna locale con le questioni globali legate ad ambiente, cultura e sostenibilità. In questo contesto, grazie all’uso di tecnologie →
The invisible intrusion of systems that quantify and record our faces has faced some boycott since the introduction of the first surveillance cameras, with people using masks, garments, and make-up techniques. Jip van Leeuwenstein’s sophisticated mask (“Surveillance Exclusion”) is a →
Open Humanities Pres, book, ISBN 978-1785421433, English, 416 pages, 2025, UK
History requires context to connect facts and events, and art history equally needs context to understand art movements, artists, and artworks. This is →
CD – PAN
Le nove tracce scelte da Florian Hecker per Natural Selection riflettono un approccio fondato su metodi di sintesi molto specifici, in cui, a differenza di altri lavori precedenti, l’unità dell’album non passa attraverso una narrazione lineare ma →
Il devastante assalto ancora in corso nella Striscia di Gaza ha prodotto immagini devastanti che hanno riempito i nostri occhi, ma in tale quantità che sembrano essere ormai quasi normalizzate. L’artista e architetto israeliano Eyal Landman, durante il completamento del →
Verso Books, book, ISBN 978-1836742180, English, 192 pages, 2026, UK
What do (machine) images mean for us today? Do they still ‘represent’ something, or have they begun to ‘activate’ something else? Trevor Paglen has devoted →
CD – Cronica
Che le città pulsino, respirino e si trasformino senza sosta è una delle intuizioni fondative della modernità. Già nel 1926, con Le Paysan de Paris, Aragon – scrittore e poeta surrealista – restituisce un’immagine dell’ambiente urbano →
The simulation of voice has a long history, which has crossed very different techniques for simulating our vocal apparatus. From the purely mechanical, such as the Euphonia allegedly created in 1820 by the Austrian inventor Joseph Faber, using a piano, →
Torque Editions, book, ISBN 978-0993248788, English, 292 pages, 2025, UK
The political role of libraries is receiving focused attention from artists, writers, academics, and activists. Researching this role, as the project behind this book has done, inevitably →
LP – Discrepant
Incrociando in modo profondo la storia del turntablism con l’elettronica sperimentale e l’improvvisazione, Takuro Mizuta Lippit – aka dj sniff – approda su Discrepant con un album di un’unica traccia che supera i trentadue minuti. Ex direttore →
The participatory sound installation On Air, by artists Peter Van Haaften, Michael Montanaro, and Garnet Willis, is presented as the materialization of an “alchemical” process (i.e., a process of algorithmic conversion of acoustic data) through which sound—in this case, the →
