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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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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/

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Synchronator ColorControl, device mixing audio into RGB signals http://synchronator.com/colorcontrol.html

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File_painting by Cèsar Escudero Andaluz, an application using computer desktop elements to compose pictures http://escuderoandaluz.com/2013/03/16/file_painting/

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Marion Stokes recorded 35 years of TV news on VHS tapes. http://www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-marion-stokes-who-single-handedly-taped-35-years-of-tv-news

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Kikk Festival 2013, Next Utopia, Namur, Belgium http://www.kikk.be/2013/

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Adel Abidin – I Love To Love… exhibition curated by Nat Muller http://www.forumbox.fi/fi/calendar/61/620-adel-abidin—i-love-to-love…

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neural new issue 13 Sep 2013

Novi_sad – Neuroplanets

CD – Sub Rosa

The sound sources of this album originate from some recordings made by BJ Nilsen, Daniel Menche, Francisco López and Mika Vainio, but the tracks have come together through the additional manipulations of Novi_sad. In Neuroplanets the →

audio art experimental 9 Dec 2013

Anna Munster – An Aesthesia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262018951, English, 248 pages, 2013, USA

Conceiving the essence of networks has been a difficult task even at the beginning of the web. The extended proliferation of amorphous asymmetrical nodes and the powerful imaginary they can →

book media net 6 Dec 2013

Geir Jenssen – Stromboli

CD – Touch / Tone 48

Many of our readers will remember Geir Jenssen as the experimenter beneath the Biosphere moniker. Considered one of ambient techno music’s main representatives, he has since shifted towards more rarefied and abstract elaborations. Stromboli →

ambient audio art field recordings 5 Dec 2013

DIY Kindle Scanner, E-Books Loops Creator

Deep in the core of the Kindle (Amazon’s e-book reader) terms and conditions there is one clear sentence concerning the ownership of digital content: “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider”. This means that every →

hacking hacktivism new media 4 Dec 2013

PRSZR – Equilirium

CD – Hinterzimmer

Rafał Iwański and Dariusz Wojtaś, the two drummers residing under the moniker Hati, have teamed up with Peter Votava to produce an album entitled Equilirium. Votava is better known in musical scenes as Pure – a techno →

acoustic/digital experimental 28 Nov 2013

Alessandro Ludovico – Post-Digital Print, The Mutation Of Publishing Since 1894

Onomatopee, ISBN: 9789078454878, 192 pages, 2012, English

The death of books and physical print has been anticipated for some time – as digital mediums take ever-increasing bites from all areas of media with online publishing and archiving, digital libraries, and →

book media 22 Nov 2013

The Marja Trio, Sonic Bike Experience For Marjaniemi

The Marja Trio is a locative media sound art project developed by Kaffe Matthews, in association with the international art platform Hai Art, during a 10 day artist-in-residence on and around Hailuoto island in Finland. In this work, standard bikes →

new media art 21 Nov 2013

Christof Migone – Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body

Errant Bodies Press, ISBN-13: 978-0982743942, 298 pages, 2012, English

The theory of sound art often finds its references in the realm of music. But there are other possibilities: concepts, or references to literature, theatre, cinema, or any other field of →

book sound art 15 Nov 2013

The Turing Normalizing Machine, Algorithmic Prejudice

The British scientist Alan Turing was a
mathematician, logician and cryptography expert, and was considered
one of the most important scholars and investigators in the field
of applied mathematics and the beginnings of computer science. He
first made a name →

new media art 13 Nov 2013

Virgil Moorefield – Five Ideas About The Relation of Sight And Sound / Mo Business As Usual

CD + DVD, Hinterzimmer

Virgil Moorefield is a composer and intermedia artist highly esteemed for his acoustic performances, which often include processed and visual sounds. Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound can be thought of as related →

audio-video cd or other portable media experimental 12 Nov 2013

Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Frank Apunkt Schneider – Context Hacking: How To Mess With Art, Media, Law And The Market

edition mono/monochrom, Vienna, ISBN-13: 978-3902796134, 304 pages, 2013, German, English

In 1993 Johannes Grenzfurthner posted on Fidonet about his intention to start a fanzine on politics, network and pop culture, and Franz Ablinger answered almost immediately. That was how →

art book media 8 Nov 2013

Autonomous Parapoetic Device, The Eternal Poetry Book In A Box

Digital devices support portable literature at various levels, but this mostly involves bestsellers and popular literature, most of the time excluding poetry. The artwork Autonomous Parapoetic Device (APxD mkII) by Adam Parrish is a portable machine that generates poetry, and →

art new media 6 Nov 2013

Lasse-Marc Riek – Helgo Land

Helgoland in German literally means “holy land” and is an island located south-east of the North Sea, originally owned by Denmark and later by the United Kingdom, before being given to Germany in 1890 as part of a treaty delineating →

audio art experimental field recordings 4 Nov 2013

Brian Chase – Drums & Drones

Pogus, CD+DVD, ASIN: B00BCNWPIY, 2013

Brian Chase, the drummer for the Yeah-Yeah-Yeahs band has accurately titled this release, which explores the type of drones produced by drums tuned to specific pitches, before processing them with computer and loudspeakers. He explores →

audio art cd or other portable media experimental 1 Nov 2013