Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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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.
Onomatopee, ISBN: 978-9491677137, English, 164 pages, 2014, The Netherlands
Freek Lomme has quite an unusual position being the founder and curator of Onomatopee, an art and design institution and a prolific publishing house – two organisations that constantly influence each →
CD – Zeitkratzer Productions
This Zeitkratzer release features a classical ensemble of clarinet, violin, cello, double bass, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar and percussion. The work, an adaptation of Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, was conducted by Reinhold Friedl and →
The historical development of music in the west has been described in terms of a distancing of the body: the identification of music with music notation and the progressive automation of musical instruments are two sides of this process. Dmitry →
CD – Doubt
Exclusively sourcing sounds from the Doubtmusic catalogue – an independent Japanese label featuring artists such as Otomo Yoshihide, Mats Gustafsson, Akira Sakata and Koichi Makigami – Incredulous Cuts mixes traditional abstract hip-hop and turntablism sensibilities with a →
The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0262019323, English, 384 pages, 2013, USA
Defining the multifaceted modalities of digital art has shown itself to be a difficult and potentially impossible task. Locating firm ground upon which to define art territories has been undermined →
CD – Misanthropic Agenda
Here is the new studio album by Francisco Meirino, an experienced artist with more than 100 live performances under his belt. Meirino’s projects are always very interesting and feel almost custom-made for the major international electronic →
“And what is a kiss, specifically?” asks Edmond Rostand in his “Cyrano de Bergerac,” adventuring into a series of world-famous poetic definitions, and, in a way, also proving the impossibility of forging any adequate ones. One of the most mysterious →
CD – Hideous Replica
This interesting setup consists of a small speaker being used in two different ways: to play sounds from Gregory Büttner’s computer and as Birgit Ulher’s trumpet mute. This results in the trumpet functioning as both a →
The latest film by Johannes Grenzfurthner is set in a post-atomic future born from the ashes of the Google-war, a destructive global war of the twenty-first century between the two last superpowers: China and Google. “Social developments confront us with →
Neural 48, Uncanny Abundance + extra: Au Clair de la Lune – For Édouard-Léon Scott and László Moholy-Nagy “paper record” by artist Kazuhiro Jo. Subscribe now!
Issue #48, Summer 2014 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Neural #48 extra is Au Clair de la Lune – For Édouard-Léon Scott and László Moholy-Nagy limited edition “paper record” version by artist Kazuhiro Jo (only for subscribers for the printed magazine).
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CD – Runningonair
Sensory memory basically consists of two main categories: iconic (visual) memory and echoic (auditory) memory. The second one acts when information is processed through an in/voluntary act of listening. Auditory sensory memory is a form of short-term →
History is full of scientists and thinkers whose minds have proven to be capable of projecting beyond the reality around them, coining reasoning and predictions whose scientific demonstrations practices, have never been reached. Thus was born the concept of conceptual →
CD – Chmafu Nocords
TH_X brings together sound artist Daniel Lercher and experimental Norwegian trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø , combining free electroacoustic improvisation and digital electronics. The five scores (“A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”) were composed for performance at →
