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.
Indonesian artist Abshar Platisza has created a series of works revolving around Biochar, an organically produced charcoal used to bind CO2 in the soil. In his installation Dalam Debu dan Abu (Within the Dust and Ashes), he made biochar from →
vinyl LP – Staalplaat
Quando si parla di simulazione negli ambiti della contemporanea sperimentazione audio e di quella che è la complessa relazione fra analogico e digitale è certamente più frequente il caso di progetti elettronici che ricreino suoni realistici →
2CD – Col Legno
Cinque composizioni su un primo cd e quattro sul secondo: è questo il risultato della terza uscita scaturita da un interessante progetto di ricerca dell’Istituto per la musica informatica e la tecnologia del suono dell’Università →
Transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3837657005, English, 360 pages, 2023, Germany
There is a hyper-fragmentation of media in the digital world, from the news reduced to tweeted titles to the average 42-second videos on TikTok. The over-consumption →
LP – Kohlhaas
Con un brano sul lato A di poco meno che undici minuti (“Radicor al flort, espert” ) e un altro sul lato B di otto minuti e mezzo (“on’ill il erb, aor Raetia”) la definizione di long →
Un tavolo inquadrato dall’alto e una distesa di piccoli oggetti mediatici insolitamente assortiti: microfoni, registratori a nastro, un giradischi e poi una serie di polaroid. É così che si presenta al pubblico di Instagram la performance sonora Forest Scratching, Sounding →
LP – Die Schachtel
È ispirato agli scritti di Hölderlin e Calderon de la Barca questo ritorno dopo sei anni di silenzio di Claudio Rocchetti, che va ad arricchire il catalogo di Die Schachtel, etichetta adesso arrivata al quinto capitolo →
Beamforming is a technology used for 5G wireless networks to deliver higher signal quality to a receiver by focusing the signal in a specific direction. In Phase Shift by Sarah Grant, Bengt Sjölén & Danja Vasiliev have created a kinetic →
adocs, ISBN 978-3943253641, English, 300 pages, 2023, Germany
In his work as a sound artist and researcher, Gilles Aubry has a unique and critical perspective in assembling field recordings and historical sources through documentation that extends →
LP – Kohlhaas
Sono il risultato di molteplici field recording raccolte durante un progetto di residenza svoltosi nel Comune di Cotignola, in provincia di Ravenna, le due tracce presentate da Giovanni Lami che vanno ad arricchire il catalogo della Kohlhaas, →
The limits of automatic language interpretation by machines have often been used in works of art, such as Mohri Yuko’s “Taiwa Hensokuki” and Void’s ”Noise is Full of Words”. Jake Elwes’ project “A.I. Interprets A.I. Interpreting ‘Against Interpretation’ (Sontag 1966)”, →
CD – thanatosis produktion
Unitamente alla diagnosi di una malattia invalidante e progressiva come il morbo di Parkinson, una delle prime avvertenze sempre dispensate dagli specialisti di questa patologia è quella di evitare la sedentarietà, al fine soprattutto di stimolare →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978- 0262545075, English, 368 pages, 2022, USA
What if we could finally realise that sound is more important to humans than sight? We might begin to think that the whole Western ocularcentrism →
CD – Crónica
Effettuare delle registrazioni a Los Angeles, a Recife e a Beirut, ricombinando e riterritorializzando i frammenti sonori che ne risultano senza un ordine particolare e forse nemmeno seguendo una precisa logica. Luca Forcucci, artista del suono italo-svizzero →
