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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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A demonstration of the Picturephone by AT&T, allowing visitors to video chat at Futurama 2, during World’s Fair in New York in 1964. http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/12/5732774/visions-of-1964-worlds-fair-didnt.html

10 Mar Retweet this Share on Facebook

Erreur d’impression. Publier à l’ère du numérique, Last event with live presentations by Nandita Kumar (India) and Mez Breeze (skype live from Goulburn, Australia). https://www.facebook.com/events/484065621705415/?context=create&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

19 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

22 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

21 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

04 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

04 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

07 Dec Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

edited by Pauline Minevich, Ellen Waterman – Art of Immersive Soundscapes

Art-of-Immersive-Soundscapes

book + DVD, University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 978-0889772588, English, 240 pages, 2013, Canada

How can the immersive quality of a sound environment be defined? At the University of Regina (Canada) two series of workshops and a conference during →

edited by Domenico Quaranta, Geraldine Juárez – The F.A.T. Manual

TheFATManual

Link Editions, ISBN: 9781291577914, English, 224 pages, 2013

The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is probably the only contemporary collective whose output and impact come close to matching the conceptual art movement. With twenty-five active members since 2007 it →

Various Artists – Liquified Sky

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Data DVD – LINE

Not for the first time did our office player release sounds that made us doubt that our equipment was functioning imperfectly: actually this happens quite regularly to people who focus on the contemporary experimental scenes. However →

Stephanie Loveless – Cricket, Tree, Crow

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DVD – ((audience))

Written as a quadrophonic audio work in three movements, Cricket, Tree, Crow explores the vocal mimicry of the sounds produced by members of these species, focusing on the imitation of forms of expression unnatural for human vocal →

Francisco Meirino – An Extended Meaning For Something Meaningless

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CD – Auditory Field Theory

The audio captures of Francisco Meirino in An Extended Meaning For Something Meaningless become almost inessential – in this case the experimentation is focused on the audio spectrum: the electronics here are static and immanent, →

David Novak – Japanoise: Music At The Edge Of Circulation

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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 →

Finn Brunton – Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

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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 →

Stavros Gasparatos – Seven

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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 →

ujif_notfound – aneuch

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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 →

Sue Thomas – Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace

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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 →