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.
Tsonami Arte Sonoro, ISSN: 0719-4625, Spanish, 68 pages, 2021, Chile
Tsonami Arte Sonoro is an excellent festival of sound art in Valparaiso, Chile (see Neural #45), which carries out a range of related activities including record →
CD + booklet – 901 Editions
Sono quattro gli altoparlanti posizionati da Marina Rosenfeld e Ben Vida, sperimentatori sonori che assieme hanno già pubblicato due album, Feel Anything e Vertice, il primo per iDEAL Recordings e l’altro per Fridman Gallery. →
Mörel Books/Sharjah Art Foundation/The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-1907071805, English, 400 pages, 2021, USA
Omar Kholeif has produced an extensive body of exhibitions and books on the impact of the online dimension through the critical lens of →
LP + booklet – Domizil
Tra il 2010 e il 2018, Thomas Rohrer, musicista itinerante avvezzo a catture auditive non convenzionali, intraprende un duplice viaggio, in Brasile e in Svizzera, aree geografiche tutt’altro che omogenee. È una rete sonora quella →
Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190065713, English, 294 pages, 2020, UK
In the essential process of reversing perspective from the traditional human-centred view to ecology as a whole, new strategies for analysing media systems can provide a →
CD + booklet – Toxo Records
Una trattazione quasi indecifrabile e inaudibile, se il suono è l’interfaccia, non va interpretata nel senso di una mancanza, anche perché le inibizioni e gli stessi silenzi – facendo nostri gli insegnamenti di John →
Uniformbooks, ISBN-13: 978-1910010266, English, 240 pages, 2021, UK
This is the third anthology on sound art practices by Cathy Lane & Angus Carlyle (founders of CRiSAP – Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice at the University →
LP + booklet – Noton
Originariamente composte per una performance di danza dal titolo Oval, diretta da Richard Siegal ed eseguita dallo Staatsballett Berlin all’Opera di Stato di Berlino nel 2019, queste otto composizioni di Carsten Nicolai, sotto il moniker →
Valiz, ISBN-13: 978-9493246010, English, 352 pages, 2021, The Netherlands
Annet Dekker is a specialist curator and dedicated author of a series of self-authored (‘Collecting and Conserving Net Art‘) and edited books (‘archive2020‘, ‘Lost and Living (in) →
LP – Concentric Records>
A marchio Concentric Records, questa nuova prova di Tobias Freund subito colpisce la nostra attenzione per la citazione felliniana di copertina, un Marcello Mastroianni in La Città delle Donne, opera cinematografica che a sua volta vantava →
