Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
The Neural Archive is a repository of publications collected by us during the years. Browse our collection here.
Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).
The Stock Photobomber claims to be an art director, now hilariously photobombing himself in classic stock photos.
Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).
The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/
“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.
Lady is a tramp by Dvein is an experimental animation testing the perception of an entity as human or human-like.
Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.
Ryoji Ikeda’s “test pattern [times square]” will bring artist’s trademark flickering black and white patterns to one of the most touristic New York City places, noon to midnight during October 2014.
Neural 49, Off-Western + extra: forged Caymans companies’ Certificates of Incorporation by artist Paolo Cirio. Subscribe now!
Issue #49, Autumn 2014 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Neural #49 extra is a forged Caymans companies’ Certificate of Incorporation by artist Paolo Cirio (only for subscribers for the printed magazine).
The Certificates used to be part of an installation and they were meant to be the “paper trail” →
CD – World Edition
This work, co-producted with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) is the latest project by Peter Ablinger, an Austrian composer with a background in jazz and composition who since the eighties has been based in Berlin and has been →
Sousveillance, or the recording of an activity by a participant, usually using small portable/wearable cameras, implies not only a change of perspective, but also a different balance of power. The collective Shinseungback Kimyonghun has created a pure sousveillance suit for →
12” – Pan
Bill Koulingas’ Berlin-based PAN Records focus on electronic, experimental and sound art, promoting a rather harsh, abstract, conceptual and techno-oriented catalogue. We are in the borderland between clubbing culture and a more sophisticated investigative approach, a form →
Black Dog Publishing, ISBN: 978-1907317989, English, 240 pages, 2014, UK
This book promotes itself as a celebration of 25 years of the relationship between art and the internet (although 1989 doesn’t seem like a particularly landmark year for internet art). →
CD – Denovali
This new release by Matthew Collings – a composer now based in Scotland – is published by Denovali and features six compositions. Collings, who has been involved in several interesting collaborations (e.g. with Dag Rosenqvist of Jasper →
What if we could strike an object from a distance and listen to its acoustic qualities using a pulse of light as a projectile? Aernoudt Jacobs has been investigating the field of photoacoustics, inspired by a lesser-known invention patented by →
CD – Gruenrekorder
There’s an unusual story behind this release. In 2013, millions of cicadas invaded the metropolitan area of New York. These insects with a musical attitude appear only once every seventeen years and some consider the event a →
Danilo Montanari, ISBN: 978-8897753087, English/Italian, 286 pages, 2014, Italy
During the Artelibro (Italian artists’ book fair) in 2013 there was an exhibition about the use of records as a medium by artists. Selected from the curator’s extensive personal collection, the →
12” – Le Cabanon
Released only on 12″ vinyl for Le Cabanon, this Horla production references two fantastic horror tales written by Guy de Maupassant in the late 19th century, stories that many literature aficionados consider exemplary chronicles of human →
Trees have voices, but they are mostly inaudible. For several decades scientists have been studying the acoustic emissions of plants in order to gain insights into plant physiology. A paper published by Milburn and Johnson in 1966 on the conduction →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Crossover between experimental work and more normative fields of contemporary music (especially those that incorporate elements derived from electronic scenes) has always been a path fraught with danger – though one offering many possibilities for fruitful →
BIS Publishers, ISBN: 978-9063693145, English, 192 pages, 2014, The Netherlands
The dream of influencing or even dominating other minds has always been present in megalomaniac human beings. But what was just a myth in the past has now become (partially) →
CD – Line
Under the moniker Pinkcourtesyphone returns Richard Chartier, with his fourth extended release for Foley Folly Folio. Description of Problem features artists such as William Basinski, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, Cosey Fanni Tutti and King Congo Powers, who contribute →
