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.
2CD – Karlrecords
Dirk Dresselhaus, ovvero Schneider TM, si muove accortamente tra nuove forme sonore, pop d’autore, musica improvvisativa e sperimentazione più concettuale oramai da metà degli anni 90, prima ancora che a livello produttivo la transizione al digitale fosse →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262046602, English, 324 pages, 2022, USA
Unlike many books about our technological present, which focus on the emerging impact of very tangible technologies, Sensing Machines reveals the invisible ocean of sensors embedded →
LP + CDR – Verlag System
Che una leggenda della musica sperimentale resista a cambiamenti epocali, dopo ripetuti anni di assenza dalle scene, non è cosa proprio per tutti e va reso il merito a Maurizio Bianchi d’un intransigente rapporto →
In the research for this project, David Vélez investigated some elements about the resonance of sounds through our bones. For example, in the early stages of our lives we hear our mother’s voice through the “mastoid bones of our skull, →
Phaidon Press, ISBN 978-1838664077, English, 296 pages, 2023, USA
The definition of Internet art was problematic from the very beginning, far beyond the used terminology(Internet, net, web, telematic, online, networked, etc.). The main →
CD – Swarming
Dopo gli attentati jihadisti del novembre 2015 gran parte degli spazi degli edifici pubblici a Parigi sono stati riprogettati aggiungendo resistenti barriere metalliche agli ingressi. Questa iniziativa oltre ad assolvere a problemi pratici di ordine pubblico ha →
Our increasing dependance from smartphones has begun to affect our circadian rhythms too, through the backlit screens and all the potentially incoming communication they represent, directly as notifications and indirectly as emails that make us switch them on even in →
LP – Gruenrekorder
Sono atmosfere davvero evocative quelle che la compositrice messicana – ma viennese d’adozione – Angélica Castelló costruisce in queste riflessioni messe a punto nel 2019 per un’installazione al Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca e che ora →
Routledge, ISBN 978-1003172789, English, 210 pages, 2022, UK
Andrés Burbano is undoubtedly one of the most important scholars in the field of Latin American media art and history and has dedicated many years to the research →
CD – Farpoint
“Affinché le macchine intelligenti funzionino, dobbiamo ridurre il mondo in insiemi di dati numerici che sostengono i database e le operazioni algoritmiche”, così argomenta Arash Akbari che in maniera apodittica e schierata completa il suo pensiero sottolineando →
One of the most frightening consequences of climate change is the drying up of freshwater supplies and the simultaneous increase in demand for freshwater. The kinetic sound sculpture hyd~ by Fabrizio Di Salvo is an all- black robotic creature based →
CD – Touch
Uno dei sottogeneri di field recording che è di più immediato gradimento anche da parte d’un pubblico non particolarmente avvezzo a simili sperimentazioni è quello degli audio diari, opere sonore nelle quali si documentano le esperienze degli →
Verso, ISBN 978-1839764554, English, 236 pages, 2023, UK
There is an economic model that we see as irreversible, celebrated above all by American corporations: the ‘single-entrepreneur heroism’ with a technology company whose profits grow geometrically year →
4CD – True Blanking
Sono il risultato di tre anni di lavoro questi quattro cd, frutto della collaborazione tra il videoartista Kjell Bjørgeengen ed il percussionista Chris Cogburn, che assieme hanno deciso d’esplorare le differenze tra le frequenze di →
