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 #77 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X
Il nuovo numero di Neural co-edited with Morten Søndergaard è disponibile.
Abbonati ora! Perchè solo gli abbonati avranno l’esclusivo extra the artist’s postcard “here:this place, a listening exercise” by Jana Winderen.
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Mario Santamaría’s Emerald Black Latency is a project that explores the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the Internet, as well as the speculative aspect of an object that is real, but impossible to perceive in its entirety. →
CD – MFR Contemporary Series
Man machine, semi human being, Man machine, super human being”. I Kraftwerk avevano già immaginato la nostra epoca cibernetica nel 1978 e tutte le relazioni che possiamo immaginare tra l’umano e l’algoritmico risentono forzatamente di →
Planetary Listening, book+cassette, ISBN 978-3000788598, English, 80 pages, 2024, Germany
Swamps & Stars was a series of events by artists and researchers from Berlin and other cities that explored ‘the vibrations between swampy spaces and the cosmos’. →
5CD – Macro
Onde sonore che ci trasportano in un viaggio senza meta, un’esplorazione continua del riverbero come mezzo espressivo, materiale primario, utilizzato in una precisa gamma di combinazioni, suddivise in 5 CD, ognuno della durata di un’ora. In Expanse, →
Inspired by the folk tale ‘The King’s Ears Are Donkey Ears’, Jun Hyoung San’s exclusive disjunctions#2; Whispering of the Wind (wish) is an installation whose structure with sixteen moving antennas resembles a bamboo forest, each with a loudspeaker attached to →
Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Kunsthalle Wien and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, catalogue, ISBN 978-3753307343, English, 224 pages, 2024, UK
This publication is a catalogue of an important exhibition curated →
CD – No Type
Dall’incontro tra Érick d’Orion e Martin Tétreault prende forma una collaborazione che unisce due approcci distinti ma complementari, maturati nel corso di una lunga militanza in scene musicali certo poco convenzionali. D’Orion si è fatto conoscere →
Apparentemente a metà strada tra un gioco cinestetico e la rappresentazione cibernetica di una coreografia, I/Another, l’installazione interattiva ideata da Animaspace – la pratica artistica di Angelina Kozhevnikova, artista, designer e ricercatrice interdisciplinare – in realtà si pone una grande →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1517915223, English, 328 pages, 2024, USA
In the post-digital age, our idea of cinema is still that of a sequential movie whose only interactivity relates to the space and time in which →
LP – Stray Signals
Sono sequenze assai crude e spettrali quelle che ci accolgono in “Over the last land” – prima traccia delle undici comprese in The Right Half , opera a quattro mani di Davide Luciani e Jorge →
One of the most under-evaluated consequences of the multiplication of machine learning engines, and their production invisibly being embedded in our daily reading, is that the generated words, tones, lexicon, and structures will have an impact on our perception of →
Institute of Network Cultures, ISBN 978-9083412504, English, 160 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
“Is this being recorded?” is probably the most frequent question asked on social media in the comments following the announcement of a live event. →
CD – FibrrRecords
Orgone è il termine con cui, agli inizi degli anni Quaranta, lo psichiatra e psicoanalista Wilhelm Reich indicava una presunta forma di energia universale, immateriale e onnipervasiva. William Burroughs, nel romanzo The Ticket That Exploded, descrive a →
One of the fascinations with predictive software is its apparent complexity and inscrutability. John Wild and Shira Wachsmann builds on this concept and creates a new idea of AI software that aims for sustainable symbiotic relationships between machine and organic →
