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 #78 2026 ISSN: 2037-108X
Il nuovo numero di Neural è disponibile.
Abbonati ora! Perchè solo gli abbonati avranno l’esclusivo extra the artist’s poster “VOICE_ERASE.PY” by Robin Rimbaud – Scanner, and the catalogue of the Sussurra Luce sound art festival.
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University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517919320, English, 274 pages, 2025, USA
It should by now be universally understood that the entire technology underlying AI is based on the computation of language, as everything must have →
What if we were to build an effective AI-based Luddite chatbot to provide consultation on work matters? AI-Ludd, the simulation presented by the IoCose group in a video, subverts the concept of industrial software. This radical narrative shift is not →
LP – Corvo
L’Makina di Gilles Aubry riprende il titolo di una canzone degli anni Trenta del celebre musicista L’Haj Belaid, dedicata a uno dei nuovi media dell’epoca: il fonografo. Come accade spesso nella storia della musica, l’arrivo di strumenti →
VOICE_ERASE.PY” by Robin Rimbaud – Scanner
A limited edition poster by the famous composer Robin Rimbaud – Scanner, with his programming code listening to a human voice through a microphone, converting the speech into text using Google’s recognition system — →
The Eriskay Connection, ISBN 978-9493363052, English, 196 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu, after years spent investigating specific contexts in China, has begun to portray the world of cosplay conventions in Europe as part of →
The technical solution of making mobile phones vibrate to avoid the intrusiveness of ringtones, also called silent mode, was first introduced on pagers in the 1980s and later on mobile phones by Motorola with their StarTAC model released in 1996. →
Routledge, ISBN 978-1032391304, English, 316 pages, 2025, UK
The centrality of the ‘listening body’ is a concept in sound studies that continues to gain momentum, possibly because of the ‘disembodiment’ that we experience during our →
LP – Noton
La serie Xerrox, giunta con questo quinto capitolo alla sua conclusione, aveva preso avvio nel 2007, diversi anni prima della separazione di Raster-Noton nelle due etichette autonome. Per Carsten Nicolai rappresenta un laboratorio costante nell’indagine delle estetiche →
Le barriere coralline di tutto il mondo sono sempre più danneggiate per fattori di stress antropico e il mantenimento di comunità ittiche sane in questo ambiente contrasterebbe il deperimento della barriera, ma le barriere degradate hanno un odore e un →
12″ – raster
L’Istituto Max Planck per l’Estetica Empirica, situato a Francoforte, è un centro di ricerca scientifica d’eccellenza che si dedica allo studio sistematico dell’esperienza estetica e della maniera in cui le persone percepiscono, elaborano e valutano l’arte e →
Gigacities Collective, magazine, English, 140 pages, 2025, Germany
This first issue of Elon magazine is almost a psychedelic trip – packed with Musk portraits and is extremely colourful. It overwhelms the reader with a redundant visual →
CD – Mind Travels Series
Sudden Fruit è un progetto collaborativo nel quale la pianista e compositrice giapponese Midori Hirano e l’architetto sonoro Ivan Pavlov danno vita con precisione chirurgica a un’opera immersiva e fantasmatica, sospesa tra acustico e digitale, →
The superhuman qualities we attribute to machines have historically concerned tasks related to labour and efficiency. However, with A Needle in a Haystack, Varvara & Mar explore what happens when these qualities are used to implement metaphors in their work. →
cassette – Edições CN
Sei solo sulla bicicletta, fendendo l’asfalto umido sotto il neon delle insegne. La tua app di mappe gracchia comandi metallici nell’auricolare, algoritmi che decidono il tuo percorso attraverso il labirinto urbano. Hai appena abbandonato il calore →
