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.
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 →
The institutional fraud of the carbon offset market is based on buying credits to offset the pollution and destruction of the environment just continuing to do so while someone else somewhere else namely working to offset it. The Offset project →
Interface is a project by Jose Chavarría in which he has built transparent masks equipped with sensors and physical transducers to simulate three non-human senses in our face. The bat’s echolocation produces bouncing sound waves to sense proximity, the python’s →
Sound art is no stranger to the form of a sounding sculpture, because the materiality inherent in sound waves encourages us to think about an outstanding object that, having received the sound waves, provides a form of acoustics. Floris Vanhoof’s →
Per molti secoli l’isteria (termine che deriva dal greco hysteron, utero) è stata considerata una patologia, riscontrata da una diagnosi medica e mentale, alla quale ricondurre un vastissimo numero di squilibri femminili; il presupposto scientifico (o finto tale) si basava →
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 →
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, →
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 →
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 →
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 →
