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The Neural Archive is a repository of publications collected by us during the years. Browse our collection here.

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Dubbing VHS as an involuntary subversive activity during Cold War in Romania. http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002708995/vhs-vs-communism.html

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Ryan Roy found people on Facebook with the same name, dressed like in their profile picture and sent them friends requests, and all of them creeped out and changed their profile picture immediately http://imgur.com/a/IqXWj

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The Machine to Be Another, swapping visions to swap self-perception http://www.themachinetobeanother.org

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Unpainted, Media art fair January 17-20, Munich http://www.unpainted.net

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Zeno of Elea di Darius Kazemi, philosophical and conceptual video game http://tinysubversions.com/game/zeno/

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Contre Temps, personal exhibition of Olga Kisseleva at Galerie Rabouan Moussion featuring works related to time. http://www.galerie-rabouan-moussion.com/en/exhibitions/olga-kisseleva-contre-temps/37

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The media archeology of names: Internet was also a transistor radio from 1969 (Internet Model S-1000 Solid State All-Transistor, c.1969) http://www.markhillpublishing.com/the-internet-transistor-radio/

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Malware using inaudible sounds to steal and communicate http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/scientist-developed-malware-covertly-jumps-air-gaps-using-inaudible-sound/

Neural turns 20 and celebrates with a special issue (#46), “Unearthed: The 20th Anniversary Issue”

Neural 20th anniversary issue is bigger than usual with visionary interviews and article published in its first decade and available for the first time in English . Subscribe now!

Issue #46, Autumn 2013 ISSN: 2037-108X

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7 Mar 2014

Neural 46 extra – the first 20 years poster (70cm x 100cm)

Neural #46 extra is the “first 20 years” poster (70cm x 100cm), with all the covers, and a QR code pointing to a pdf file narrating the history of the magazine (only for subscribers):

7 Mar 2014

David Novak – Japanoise: Music At The Edge Of Circulation

Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0822353928, English, 304 pages, 2013, USA

In the small galaxy of noise music, there’s a specific, ideal place for dealing with its edge, pushed by the intrinsic extreme nature of noise itself. In the imagination of →

book experimental noise 6 Mar 2014

Chris Watson – In St Cuthbert’s Time / The Sounds Of Lindisfarne And The Gospels

CD+ booklet - Touch

Many people know Chris Watson as part of the Cabaret Voltaire and the Hafler Trier, as well as for being an able field recordist. He has recently created two new works under the umbrella of Touch. The first →

audio art experimental field recordings 5 Mar 2014

Volumes For Sound – Nonlinear Acoustic Design

Acoustic design is an empirical business, but regardless of its experimental foundation, concepts related to high-fidelity have to a large extent kept applied acoustics in a subservient role, limiting the scope of the discipline to solving problems originating within other →

audio art experimental new media art 4 Mar 2014

Akio Suzuki & Lawrence English – Boombana Echoes

CD/Deluxe Packaging – Winds Measure

We are immediately seduced by the artwork of Boombana Echoes, a project comprising field recordings, drums and electronics recorded live on December 12th 2005. The first of the three compositions by Akio Suzuki and Lawrence →

audio art experimental field recordings 3 Mar 2014

Finn Brunton – Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262018876, Finnish, 296 pages, 2013, English

The language challenge of spam is one of the most underestimated experiments in man-machine relationships. Spam is mainly triggered by the self-feeding appetite for algorithmically generated money, from the classic →

book hacktivism net software 28 Feb 2014

Stavros Gasparatos – Seven

CD – Ad Noiseam

Combining electronic music and classical instruments is a trend that has been consolidated by international avant-garde movements. Within this field Stavros Gasparatos is well known for his skill in subtly balancing the two elements. His work →

acoustic/digital audio art experimental 27 Feb 2014

Test Tone, 1000hz, 33 rpm, Dadaist Turntablism – Yann Leguay

1000hz is a frequency commonly used as a test tone in audio perception experiments. Rigorous research into human sensitivity to sound and auditory thresholds has often used 1000Hz as a reference point for determining the quietest tones a person with →

experimental new media art sound art 26 Feb 2014

ujif_notfound – aneuch

MiniCDr – Electroton

In spite of being a limited edition of just 100 copies, this MiniCDr published by Electroton focuses the attention of international audiences on another interesting Ukrainian electronic experimenter. It’s not the first time that the German label →

audio art experimental glitch'n'cuts 25 Feb 2014

Sue Thomas – Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace

Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1849660396, English, 224 pages, 2013, UK

It seems that our ancestral attachment to nature has not been forgotten, especially if you look at how we use natural metaphors to name technological products and services. We even integrate →

biotech book new media art 24 Feb 2014

KK NULL – Edging: Soundtrack For Dance Theatre Piece

CD – Nux Org

Edging: Soundtrack For Dance Theatre Piece, with choreography by Guillaume Marie/TAZCORP, was released to coincide with the preview of the same piece at the Festival Les Inaccoutumés in Paris, on November 19th and 20th 2013. The →

drone experimental noise 21 Feb 2014

Net Art Implant, Digital Gallery Under The Skin – Anthony Antonellis

If you thought art might some day really get under your skin you were right. Anthony Antonellis, an American artist who says he “lives and works on the Internet”, developed a gallery in a chip, which he wears under his →

hacktivism net new media art 20 Feb 2014

Mountain Black – Closing In

CD – Moozak

Marin Key, aka Mountain Black, weaves a series of dense and rarefied cinematic evolutions in Closing In, his debut album. The album was released by Moozak, an experimental label established in spring 2008 in Vienna that also →

drone experimental field recordings 19 Feb 2014

edited by: Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Terike Haapoja – Field_Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon

Printon Printinghouse Ltd, ISBN-13: 978-9529323135, English/Finnish, 256 pages, 2013, Estonia

This is the first in a series of publications originating from a specific “field” laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Invited by the Finnish Society of Bioart, a →

biotech book new media art 18 Feb 2014