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.
Neural #54 extra is Megacorp interim report by KairUs.org (Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle), a printed publication with highlighting key figures on 1000 evil web business (only for subscribers to the printed magazine).
As Kronman and Zingerle explain:
“”Megacorp.” is →
Neural 53, Obfuscate or Die + extra USB drive by artist Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska containing The Pirate Book pdf and source materials. Subscribe now!
Issue #53, Winter 2016 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Neural #53 extra is USB drive by artist Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska containing The Pirate Book pdf and source materials, produced by Aksioma (only for subscribers for the printed magazine).
As Maigret and Roszkowska explain:
“This work offers a →
Neural 52, Complexity issue(s). Subscribe now!
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Issue #51, Summer 2015 ISSN: 2037-108X
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MER Paper Kunsthalle, ISBN: 978-9491775673, English, 84 pages, 800 numbered copies, 2015, The Netherlands
There are some books that manipulate content and form to create a seamless continuum of a central idea. This anthology of texts is one such book: →
The first 40 subscribers (new or renewing) to Neural #51 will receive a free copy of “No Patent Pending, self-made performative media” beautiful book (only for subscribers for the printed magazine).
adocs publishing, ISBN: 9783943253092, English, 80 pages, 2014, Germany
As a result of the Global Prayers project on the manifestation of religion in urban spaces, sound artist Gilles Aubry has conducted extensive research into Christian charismatic churches in Kinshasa, (D.R. →
Neural 50, Transient Gestures. Subscribe now!
Issue #50, Winter 2015 ISSN: 2037-108X
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Issue #49, Autumn 2014 ISSN: 2037-108X
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