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.
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.
Retrieving Humanity
Retrieving Humanity is a one of a kind interactive performance and installation that will bring live streaming video and audio from around the world to Santa Fe
(tags: art net performance mobile)
ZKM Exhibition
Seven years after "fast forward," the exhibition fast forward 2 will show a wide range of new video acquisitions from the internationally renowned private collection of Ingvild Goetz from Munich
(tags: art exhibition video)
mtschaefer | demand for print
praising Neural…
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NOISE & CAPITALISM » THE BOOK
This book, Noise & Capitalism, is a tool for understanding the situation we are living through.
(tags: hacktivism music)
Reverse The Wave: Introduction
"Reversing the Wave" is a 'Subvertisement' by American film maker Deena DeNaro, that brings Nokia's →
publicdomain
public//domain, a Festival of Digital Art, Music, Interaction and Screenings
(tags: festival art media)
Virta-Flaneurazine
Virta-Flaneurazine Clinic at the exhibition, “Tangible Spiritualities”
(tags: art hacktivism)
Mediamatic.net – Mapping for Change will start early!
Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9, bringing together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps
(tags: art mobile design)
Art | Basel – Art and Technology
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2010 ASAE National Symposium and Retreat « The World Listening Project
American Society for Acoustic Ecology National Symposium "Listening for the Future"
(tags: sound art music)
LAB website
HEADPHONES FESTIVAL experimental music, voice performance, poetry, sound art performance, noise music,.. with 32 participants from several location
(tags: art net music performance sound)
Contacts is an interactive sound installation with body and skin from public
interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public
(tags: art design media science)
Test_Lab: The Invisible City — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
Test_Lab will feature a selection of freshly graduated artists, architects, and designers from European art and design academies whose projects explore the invisible aspects of our contemporary urban environments
(tags: art →
summit:desc [psychogeophysics]
The London Psychogeophysics Summit proposes an intense week-long, city-wide series of walks, fieldtrips, river drifts, open workshops and discussions exploring the novel interdisciplinary frame of psychogeophysics
(tags: psychogeography urban software)
