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.
Errant Bodies, ISBN 9780977259410, U.S.A. / Denmark, 2007, English
Questo è un altro libro essenziale per ogni artista interessato al suono, generato dalla sveglie e produttiva mente dello sperimentatore concettuale Brandon Labelle. Egli estende la maggior parte della sua pratica artistica e dei suoi interessi con una buona dose di ricerca, pubblicando preziosi libri su
temi estremamente focalizzati. Questa è un’antologia di saggi sulla radio art editata insieme a Erik Granly Jensen, focalizzandosi su di essa dalla prospettiva di una pratica culturale radicale che può essere finalmente essere espressa attraverso il networking e lo streaming. Per questo qui possiamo trovare testi sulla storia delle radio pirata, esperimenti in FM, suggerimenti su schemi di performance, gli esperimenti di apo33 connettendo palazzi remoti attraverso microfoni e poi mettendo in onda questi suoni in tutta la città. Nel testo si trova una storia dettagliata dei suoni elettromagnetici, o le narrative della vitale forma uditiva, con produttori che raccontano le loro particolari esperienze. In questo ricco assemblaggio di materiale diverso che rivela quanto le produzioni radicali in radio siano tuttora molto prolifiche, la quantità di teoria e pratica siano ben bilanciate, e possa dare sufficienti motivazioni per portare il lettore a procurarsi un minimo di attrezzatura e cominciare a produrre lavori in proprio.Il tutto può essere facilmente apprezzato ascoltando al bellissimo cd che accompagna il libro, pieno di frammenti di registrazione, azioni in rete, field recordings, esperimenti di streaming e varie strategie interconnesse. Nelle sue 19 tracce sono inclusi lavori di apo33, Steve Bradley, John Hudak & Joe Resinsel, elpueblodechina, Jason Kahn e Kode9, fra gli altri, e il tutto può essere considerata come un’importante e seducente introduzione alla radio art.
