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.
Symbiosis è un varco che permette di entrare nel corpo e nelle sensazioni di future creature simbionti nate da ipotetiche operazioni genetiche incrociate tra mondo animale, vegetale e tecnologia. L’esperienza in realtà immersiva, creata dal collettivo olandese di experience design →
L’installazione sonora interattiva intitolata Δ [Delta] utilizza la bio-sonificazione per rendere comprensibili i dati biologici complessi attraverso il suono, senza dover analizzare dati binari. L’obiettivo è di percepire a livello emotivo, tramite il suono, i processi naturali che avvengono negli →
Nell’installazione sonora “umwandler” Nika Schmitt sperimenta l’idea di un sistema autonomo di generazione e conservazione di energia. L’opera consiste in una sorta di enorme bobina elettromagnetica costruita all’interno del Water Reservoir di Berlino, uno spazio sottorraneo circolare, vuoto e roboante, →
L’opera FM-TOTEM di Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: ricorda la sagoma alta e slanciata dei totem oggetti mistici, che rimandano a simbologie ancestrali e profonde. La scelta potrebbe essere stata fatta forse in onore alla tecnologia su cui è costruita, cioè la modulazione →
Nel suo nuovo progetto Terra Xenobiotica l’artista Saša Spačal esplora la vita del suolo situato in prossimità degli aeroporti. L’installazione si compone di due parti. Il film “Holding Patterns”, scritto in collaborazione con la teorica Alison Sperling, descrive uno scenario →
L’opera RWM MK1 di Arthur Lucchesi è un sintetizzatore elettronico che cattura segnali radio e permette di rielaborarli secondo diverse strategie in tempo reale. Lo spettro delle onde captate è maggiore dei classici standard AM/FM; il dispositivo riesce quindi ad intercettare il rumore →
Quando e come è nata l’arte? Questa domanda probabilmente senza risposta certa è stata fatta innumerevoli volta e nell’opera “Perhaps, art begins with the fireflies” Nelo Akamatsu diventa lo strumento per elaborare la poetica dell’artista. Nell’installazione viene letteralmente riportata alla →
In quest’opera l’artista Louis-Philippe Demers mette in scena le riflessioni interiori di un gracchiante monocolo robotico guidato da un’Ai, che esprime i suoi pensieri mentre osserva con il suo unico inquietante occhio le persone che man mano gli siedono di →
In the work “Entropophone | La qualité de l’air” by artist Filipe Vilas-Boas, the anonymous video stream of a surveillance camera is transformed into a musical score: Each car detected triggers a sound as if it were the hole in →
The buildings we inhabit have stolen space from countless other living beings. With urban arrogance and an abundance of artificial and invasive materials, we have literally invaded many ecosystems that were once ideal and autonomous. With rising sea levels, there →
