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.
Raymond Scott was the first person to build an electronic sequencer, and his iconic Electronium machine, conceived in 1959, was his biggest project, able to cleverly generate music, to which he worked for 11 years, never finishing it. Yuri Suzuki, →
Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0674728943, English, 280 pages, 2018, USA
Over the years the encounter between software’s dynamic qualities and the visualisation of information has been nurtured by entities of different natures: commercial, technological, aesthetic, and political. →
CD – Elli
Dopo aver suonato la chitarra in oscure band black e doom metal durante gli anni novanta e aver lavorato su diversi progetti idm di musica elettronica, Alessio Santini, oramai già da quindici anni a questa parte, ha →
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415843058, English, 220 pages, 2016, USA
Le più diffuse ricerche teoriche in questa seconda metà degli anni 2010 sono per lo più legate ai nostri dispositivi più vicini (smartphone) e ai loro software più utilizzati (social media) distinti →
Cosa ci guadagniamo o perdiano nel “rinunciare alla nostra agenzia sociale a favore di un software per computer”? Questa è la domanda centrale di Randomly Generated Social Interactions di Anastasis Germanidis. Il progetto che ne risulta svela in modo incisivo →
Audio data cassette – ArtKillArt
Differenti protocolli di codifica audio sono estratti da un modem 56k, fax e personal computer del 1980 e assieme ai dati audio sono inclusi anche testi di conversazioni on-line fra i diversi membri di un →
LP – Nebularosa
Può il genere ninna nanna assurgere a idea guida per un un progetto sperimentale di musica elettronica? Evidentemente si, e non è un mistero che le ninna nanne potrebbero essere ritrovate in quasi ogni cultura – sin →
IdPure éditions, ISBN-13: 978-970099215, English, 208 pages, 2015, Switzerland
La cultura algoritmica, ovvero la cultura espressa da sistemi automatizzati e in particolare basati su software, ha iniziato solo di recente ad accaparrarsi una certa attenzione, quando le sue conseguenze sociali, →
Google Poetics, o l’arte “autocomplete” è diventato un genere, come si può osservare in opere come “Autocompleteme” di Jérôme Saint Clair e Benjamin Gaulon, o “Google Poems” di Sampsa Nuotio. Parte della loro forza è nell’uso del motore Google AutoComplete, →
Constant Verlag, ISBN: 978-9081145930, English, 360 pages, 2015, Brussels
Dalla fine degli anni novanta, Constant, un organizzazione artistica con sede a Bruxelles, è stata seminale nel mondo del Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), in particolare per quanto riguarda la progettazione. Il →
