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.
CD – Gruenrekorder
In Terra Subfónica Daniel Blinkhorn s’applica in guisa d’una concettuale opera radiofonica che eleva a medium percettivo le suggestioni indotte da suoni familiari, strani, trascurati e inauditi. L’esplorazione del sound-artista focalizzata sulla capacità d’intendimento e d’impressione del mezzo radiofonico lavora sulle “tradizionali” tecniche di sensibilizzazione auditiva, facendo emergere silenzi, agitando field recording e frammenti sonori di varia provenienza, realizzando come una mappatura alle soglie della nostra acutezza nel distinguere. Uno degli interessi primari dello sperimentatore è “l’esplorazione delle relazioni tra le persone e gli ambienti sonori”, spazi che sono particolarmente ricchi di sfumature auditive e andrebbero “ascoltati” con maggiore attenzione. Sono piccole suite radio-drammaturgiche allora quelle per le quali l’autore dispone un’articolata gabbia concettuale, annettendo anche suoni strumentali ed elettronici ma cercando comunque di preservare gli ambienti reali che molte delle opere “abitano”. Il risultato di questo approccio è decisamente assai fluente e ricco di squarci poetici, grazie a catture auditive che sembrano ispirare la narrazione, comunque costruita nel montaggio in maniera piuttosto elaborata, intersecando differenti piani, giocando sulla qualità delle registrazioni effettuate nelle differenti soundwalk e sessioni di registrazione, costruendo meticolosamente i percorsi sonori che vanno infine a comporre ciascuna delle 19 partiture presentate. Daniel Blinkhorn, compositore australiano, sound e digital media artist, ci ha comunque convinto del suo talento, l’uscita è godibilissima all’ascolto e di grande fascino. Aurelio Cianciotta
Daniel Blinkhorn – Stereo Recording Zodiac Slewing Through Icefield
Daniel Blinkhorn – Stereo Recording Iceberg Fragments From Shoreline
