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 →
CG-ARTS, ISBN 978-4903474717, Japanese, 802 pages, 2023, Japan
Within Japan, which still remains relatively inaccessible to the West, there has been a long-standing pronounced and outstanding tradition of the production of new media art. A few →
CD + booklet – The Dim Coast
Risalgono al 2002, anno nel quale è iniziato il progetto Auditorium, le prime elaborazioni di quest’opera di Christof Migone, sound artista canadese a suo agio con un tipo di ricerca piuttosto astratta ma →
If ‘there are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew’, as McLuhan stated, where is the public opinion on climate change? Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (interviewed in issue #26) provides an answer with Climate Parliament, which consists of thousands of →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262547956, English, 320 pages, 2024, USA
It is not only the comparison between the representation of land in the past and the present that should exclusively influence our awareness of the current →
CD – Touch
Come si diffonde e viene amplificato il dominio della tecnologia e come cambia conseguentemente la nostra percezione della realtà? È questa la domanda forse più significativa con la quale oggi – ma già dagli anni ottanta, in →
Disnovation.org (Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska) has taken on the absurdities of energy management in the industry and continues to produce technically advanced and conceptually strong works. With The Solar Share, a microalgae culture produces edible biomass every day through →
Valiz / RADIUS, ISBN 978-9493246348, English, 256 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
We are earthbound. With this quote from Bruno Latour, the editors set the tone of Worlding Ecologies, an anthology of texts that emerged from a →
LP + book – Nothing To Commit
È un raffinato progetto, Notes On Cuts, scritto e realizzato dallo storico dell’arte e studioso John Peffer, che con un approccio davvero atipico e ispirato rievoca criticamente la censura perpetuata dalla South →
Loops of the loom is a series of artworks woven with electrical wires by Cecile Babiole. The symbolic aesthetics of the cables and their functionality are used both through their processual interweaving and through the audio signals transmitted through them. →
EMAP / Impakt, English, 186 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
ADVICE WELL TAKEN is an artist book of the kind that only enlightened tech-culture artists can make. It fits seamlessly into what Dasha Ilina (interviewed in issue #66) →
LP – Raster
Cicli disuguali alla ricerca di esperienze sincroniche: nel suo nuovo album Pounding, Frank Bretschneider racconta di distanza, convergenza e congruenza in un flusso continuo e mutevole di eventi. L’esplorazione del suono di questo artista – musicista e →
The mysteries of quantum physics and quantum computing have not yet permeated our society because they still remain a black box for the promised revolution in computation. Against this backdrop, Mike Rijnierse constructs a double-sided mirror in Quantum Mirror with →
Bloomsbury, ISBN 979-8765109205, English, 248 pages, 2024, USA
Some people are lucky enough to share their career path with people who, over time, prove to be pivotal in their respective fields. Ben Neill, in his long →
