Neural 53, Obfuscate or Die

Neural 53 cover

Issue #53, Winter 2016 ISSN: 2037-108X

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interviews

  • Mushon Zer Aviv
  • Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum
  • Francisco López
  • Benjamin Grosser
  • Jacob Kirkegaard
  • Nick Montfort

reports

  • MemeCity, “HackingRealities,” Hangzhou
  • “GetA-life!” Piksel 2015, Bergen
  • “Renewable Futures”, Riga

news

  • Kopimashin, Accelerating the Unstoppable Copying
  • The Obsolescence Project, The Visual Quality of being Old
  • Deep Sweep, The Mirror Behind the Data
  • Project Dust, Materialising pollution weight
  • Conventions of Tiny Movements, Objects, subjects, spies
  • The Architecture of Radio, Waves are Among Us
  • Message Past Future, Corrupted Tomorrows
  • cellF, External Brain Improvisation
  • 20 Oscillators in 20 Minutes, Radically Performing Electronics
  • Time and Tide Bell, Ringing the Reason
  • Data Drops, Emotions Rendering in Liquid Colours
  • The Space Between Us, Lovers’ Direction
  • Barents (mare incognitum), Losing the Borders
  • Spectra-3, I want communicate with you
  • Infinity Room, unquantifiable time and space

Centrefold

  • Offline Eye / Wi-Fi Organs, Out of Body Experience

books/dvds

  • Edited by Femke Snelting, Christoph Haag / Conversations
  • Athina Karatzogianni / Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014 : The Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict
  • Tung-hui Hu / A Prehistory of the Cloud
  • Paul Stephens / The Poetics of Information Overload : from Gertrude Stein to conceptual writing
  • David M. Berry and Michael Dieter / Postdigital Aesthetics : art, computation and design
  • Nina Sun Eidsheim / Sensing Sound : singing & listening as vibrational practice
  • Edited by Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, Hannes Liechti / Seismographic sounds : visions of a new world : Norient 015
  • Edited by Gordon Mumma / Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music
  • Bruckner / Happy End
  • Edited by Cornelia Lund and Ana Carvalho / The Audiovisual Breakthrough
  • Oliver Botar / Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
  • Jussi Parikka / A Geology of Media
  • Edited by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz / [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies. Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century
  • Edited by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Anna Watkins Fisher, Thomas Keenan / New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader
  • Zabet Patterson / Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art

cd reviews

  • Frank Bretschneider: Isolation: LINE
  • Jean-Luc Fafchamps: Gentle Electronics: Sub Rosa
  • Peter Prautzsch: Fever Drawings: Palacmusic
  • Simon Whetham: What Matters Is That It Matters: Baskaru
  • Jonas Olesen: Piece For Corroded Digital Audio Tape: BIN
  • Steve Roden + Mem1: A Floating Wave Of Air: Estuary Ltd.
  • Keda: Hwal: Parentheses
  • Uncodified: Hardcore Methodology: Elettronica Radicale
  • Ivan Iusco: Transients: Minus Habens
  • Drumcorps: Falling Forward: Ad Noiseam
  • VVAA: Sound Art China | Revolutions Per Minute: Post Concrete
  • VVAA: Psychonavigation (2000-2015) Mixed by DJ Food / Strictly Kev: Psychonavigation
  • Mario Diaz De Leon: The Soul Is The Arena: Denovali
  • Ivar Grydeland: Stop Freeze Wait Eat: Hubro
  • Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi: Electromagnetic Collective: Fibrr
  • Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer: Twine: 12K
  • Lars Graugaard & Thomas Hejlesen: Tears Of Dionysius: Clang
  • VVAA: Landscapes Of Fear: Gruenrekorder
  • Irmler / Einheit: Bestandteil: Klangbad
  • The Balustrade Ensemble: Renewed Brilliance: Serein