Neural

Neural is a printed magazine dealing with new media art, with a peculiar attention to the networked and conceptual use of technology in art (the so-called net.art), hacktivism, or activism using electronic media to express itself, and electronic music, investigating how the technology is involved in music production, consumption and experimentation.
Neural was founded in 1993 by Alessandro Ludovico and Minus Habens Records label owner Ivan Iusco in Bari (Italy). The magazine's mission is to be a magazine of ideas, becoming a node in a larger network of digital culture publishers. The magazine is also committed to give its topics a proper visual frame: focusing on graphic design and how it could have expressed the electronic culture in a sort of printed “interface”, exploiting at the same time the “sensorial” possibilities of the printed page.
Neural is printed three times in a year (some years it is printed irregularly).
 
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Neural - Artificial Corporeality
2024
English edition
Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...
Neural - Connective Theories, 30 years of Neural
2024
English edition
Anniversary issue: 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica; interviews with Olga Goriunova, Siegfried Zielinski, Luciana Parisi, Hito Steyerl, Jussi Parikka; The Neural Archive; reports: xcoax 23, Renaissance 3.0 ZKM; books/DVDs & music reviews...
Neural - Negociating Values
2024
English edition
Co-editor: Matteo Marangoni; interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, Vivian Caccuri; articles: Accessing the Fiduciary Transactions of the Intellect and Imagination, Folding the Past into the Present; reports: Transmediale 2023, KIKK Festival...
Neural - Machine Transparency
2023
English edition
Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...
Neural - Strange Weathers
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
Daphne Dragona, Jussi Parikka, Karoline Sobecka, Superflux, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Open Weather, Jana Winderen, Phase Changers: melting, evaporating, breathing in Meteorological Art, Meta.Morf 2022, Ecophilia...
Neural - Alternative Metaverses
2022
English edition
Lu Yang, LaTurbo Avedon, Lawrence Lek, Marco Cadioli, A genealogy of the metaverses, The metaverses performed sounds, Ars Electronica 2021...
Neural - Climate Resistance
2022
English edition
currently out of stock
Ai Hasegawa, Robertina Šebjanič, The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, Kasia Molga, The Radiant Future of Solarpunk, Listening as Activism, Werkleitz Festival 2021, Climate Care...
Neural - Procedural Rejection
2021
English edition
Interviews with Addie Wagenknecht, Antonia Hernández, Elisa Giardina Papa, Finn Brunton, Mario Santamaría, Sung Tieu; articles: Muzak that listens, Just Say No...
Neural - Adversarial Tactics
2021
English edition
currently out of stock
Vladan Joler, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Winnie Soon, Weidi Zhang, Trading Voices, Sonic Surveillance in the Age of AI, Through a Glass Darkly, Dither Studies and Straightened Trees, MNEMOSCOPIO & rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me)...
Neural - Sate of Emergency
2020
English edition
Interviews with Dasha Ilina, Forensic Architecture, Screen Walks (Marco de Mutiis + Jon Uriarte), Michele Spanghero; Emergency music by Pirate Care; Masks: The Face between Bodies and Networks; reports, news and 35 books, DVDs & CD reviews...
Neural - Redirecting Networks
2020
English edition
Co-editor: Rachel O'Dwyer; interviews with Kyriaki Goni, Tiziana Terranova, Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis De Bel, Tim Shaw, Surya Mattu; Dreaming otherwise: the past and future of community wireless networks; We Organise You Music, So You Don't Have To; reports: FAEN 2019, Mud Muses, Nam June Paik exhibition...
Neural - Post-Growth
2020
English edition
Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.
Neural - Surveillance Surveyed
2019
English edition
Coéditrice : Rachel O'Dwyer ; entretiens avec Pip Thornton, Joana Moll, Mendi et Keith Obadike; ASurveying Surveillance Capitalism, Decode: Data Cooperatives, Our voices granted to machines ; Transmediale 2019, Master/Slave exhibition, Leonardo 50 years anniversary...
Neural - Spiked Pieces – Celebrating 25 years of Neural
2019
English edition
currently out of stock
Anniversary special issue: a return on 25 years of reviews.
Neural - Speculative Pink
2019
English edition
Interviews with Cornelia Sollfrank, Lílian Campesato, Hyphen-Labs, Faith Holland, Mary Flanagan, Spideralex, Linda O'Keeff; Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people; books, DVDs and CDs reviews...
Neural - Blockchain. The Trust Catalyst
2018
English edition
currently out of stock
Issue coedited with Rachel O'Dwyer, media and communications Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin; interviews with Olivier Sarrouy, Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett), Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Martín Nadal, Ami Clarke, Sarah Friend; A token called ART; How is the Blockchain Transforming the Art World?; reports on the Meta.Morf 2018 – the 5th Trondheim Biennale, and Transmediale 2018.
Neural - Pimping the Eye, VR now
2018
English edition
Exploring the potentialities of virtual reality: with Björk VR experiments; sound and VR; Michel Chion; interviews with Molleindustria, Viktor Timofeev, David Guez, Boštjan Čadež, Naotaka Fujii + Grinder-Man + Evala, WonJik Yang; reports on Temblor – 13 Bienal de Arte Mediales, and Gamerz 13 – Techno-esoteric visions…
Neural - Archivism – The Dynamics of archiving
2018
English edition
The Dynamics of archiving: interviews with Ernesto Oroza, Simone Osthoff, Red conceptualismos del Sur, Manu Luksch, Daniel G. Andujar; Anna Ramos presents the Memorabilia podcast series; the British Library's 140 years of recorded sound vs. Centuries of Sounds; Rhizome's Net Art Anthology; reports on ISEA 2017 – “Biocreation and Peace”, Lisbon's xCoAx 2017…
Neural - Propaganda mon amour
2017
English edition
Propaganda issue, with Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as special editor: interviews with Natella, Fatima Al Qadiri, Brandalism, Jonas Staal; Is there something outside the hyperstition? On accelerationism and propaganda; Mapping the “Alt-Right;” Insider Trading Terrorism; Bello Figo, the Italian Pop Star of Over-Identification; reports from WRO 2017 Biennale and Transmediale 2017.
Neural - Intelligently Weak
2017
English edition
Interviews with Florian Hecker, Ben Bogart, Jonas Lund, Gene Kogan, Eric Drass; AI representation in Black Mirror TV series; Machine Fallibility and Emergent Weirdness; Burak Arikan's Data Asymmetries; the “Fear and Love” exhibition at London's Design Museum…
Neural - Inconvenient Utopias
2017
English edition
Near Future Laboratories, Brendan Howell, Julian Priest, Jason Kahn, Robert Pravda, Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, Liam Young, Cinema Lascado exhibition, Cinnamon Colomboscope 2016, news and reviews in hacktivism, emusic and new media art…
Neural - Making it up
2016
English edition
Featuring: Medialabmx, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, Digital Technology and Stone Sculpture, interviews with Garnet Hertz, Darsha Hewitt, :vtol: (Dmitry Morozov), Dennis de Bel, Quayola, reports from Transmediale 2016 and Meta.Morf 2016, records and books reviews…
Neural - Obfuscate or Die
2016
English edition
Featuring: Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum on their book Obfuscation – A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, interviews with Mushon Zer Aviv, Francisco López, Jacob Kirkegaard, Benjamin Grosser, and Nick Montfort, reports on Media City – Intermedia Art Festival, Piksel 2015, Renewable Futures Festival, digital news, records and books reviews…
Neural
2016
English edition
Featuring: interviews with Constant (An Mertens, Femke Snelting), Rosa Menkman, Tristan Perich, Alberto Novello, Ralf Baecker, Phillip Galanter; an article on Simplexity, the art of the one-liner for sonic complexity, reports on “Disruption” ISEA 2015, “Test Exposure” WRO 2015, xCoAx 2015, digital news, books and records reviews...
Neural - Revive
2015
English edition
Interviews with Jon Ippolito, Ben Fido-Radin, Olia Lialina, Constant Dullaart, Graham Dunning, Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante (Working IT museum); articles on Artworks & defunct software, embracing social life & forgetfulness, sound reconfigurations, reports on Bio-Fiction 2014, Transmediale 2015, Sonic Acts 2015, Accès)s( #14, records and books reviews...
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