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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Abbonati ora! Perchè solo gli abbonati avranno l’esclusivo extra tthe artist’s poster “The fall of fiber optic control, power and paranoia” by Cèsar Escudero Andaluz..
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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 →
Ci spiace, ma questo articolo è disponibile soltanto in English.
cassette – Staalplaat
Sono passati quarant’anni dalla prima pubblicazione di Opera di FNTC – edita da Staalplaat – quando il formato in cassetta non era ancora una scelta estetica, come spesso accade oggi, ma una necessità dettata soprattutto dai costi →
Routledge, book, ISBN 978-1041161943, English, 120 pages, 2026, USA
The phrase “quantum mechanics” was coined in 1925, and after a century, the phenomenon of quantum computing is increasingly regarded as both a “next big thing” and one →
Several experiments in media art have involved feeding a machine with an input, then using the output as the next input in a loop, resulting in escalating degradation of the results. Maria Mavropoulou has employed this approach in Ecologies of →
12″ – HEIN?
Il Bureau des Illusions Sonores (B.I.S.) è un duo artistico francese composto da Elia e Adam David, specializzato nella creazione di esperienze sonore uniche e inattese. Il loro lavoro reinventa il concetto di djing, allontanandolo dai contesti →
University of Minnesota Press, book, ISBN 978-1517916527, English, 232 pages, 2025, USA
This book has been eagerly anticipated, as Goriunova has delivered several public talks and keynotes on the topic, sharing aspects of her research and, →
CD – Sonic Rubbish
Eamon Sprod è un field recordist che ricordiamo avvezzo a collaborazioni importanti, come quelle con Eric La Casa nel 2019, con David Prescott-Steed nel 2022 e, in passato, con Ernie Althoff. Da tempo il suo lavoro →
Entangled Others, aka Sofia Crespo e Feileacan si concentrano sulle relazioni tra forme di vita non umane, infrastrutture tecnologiche e processi computazionali. La loro (di)atomic garden prende ispirazione da alcuni esperimenti eseguiti dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, gli “atomic gardens”, →
Set Margins’, book, ISBN 978-9083449876, English, 192 pages, 2025, The Netherlands
The crisis of information validation began on a global scale with social media and their promise to reduce the various communication levels from different media →
CD – Raster
Già nei primi anni Ottanta, in molti ambiti della ricerca artistica europea si notava come l’idea di avanguardia – soprattutto come categoria storica – avesse esaurito il proprio ciclo, trasformandosi in stile più che in impulso alla →
What sounds might we associate with climate change without supporting visuals? Sound artists have explored the territories of glaciers melting and the cries and calls of endangered species. Johannes Kreidler takes a different approach in his “Jet Whistles / The →
The MIT Press, book, ISBN 978-0262552547, English, 274 pages, 2025, USA
Cory Arcangel is certainly an anomaly in media art. Embodying a pure hacker DIY spirit, he has, in just a few years, become a renowned →
