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.
CD & Booklet – Sonic Arts Network
This is the ninth implementation of the series curated by the Sonic Arts Network, a British organization dedicated to studying, spreading and pondering →
Invisible Territories
nanotechnology and art festival
(tags: art visual media)
Paper publishing will never be the same again. It is deeply affected by a dual contradictory need. On one hand, real-time updating is pervading the printed page space with various technologies, →
We’re in Kassel, for co-curating with Nat Muller a week (July 16-22) of panels within the Documenta 12 Magazine Project. It’s called “Papel and Pixel Week” and it’ll be dedicated to →
CDR – Gruenrekorder / Privatelektro
A CD-R compilation in limited edition (only 150 copies), the result of the collaboration of two experimental labels, Gruenrekorder of Frankfurt and Privatelektro of Leipzig. Fourteen tracks, →
CD – Citizen
On the border separating con men from geniuses there’s room for the Teenage Bad Girl, a French duo composed of Guillaume Manbell and Greg Kazubski, described by some critics as a →
ISBN 9780955479656
edited by: Alessandro Ludovico, Nat Muller
Open Mute
14.00 Euro (including shipping in Europe )
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I don’t work since…
Show off your inactivity.
(tags: software hacktivism)
Ex Pharao is a re-elaboration of the Moses und Aron serial work by Arnold Schönberg and of the lives of Moses and his brother Aaron, their relation with the people of Israel and the internal →
In ‘The Sentiment Machine’, a self-regulating sound installation by N. B. Aldrich, a dozen of speakers dangles from the ceiling, broadcasting audio clips from TV (talk show interviews, news →
Put together the Welsh designer Ross Lovergrove, KEF (a leading English company in the production of acoustic technology) and Moving Brands (the company that employs, among others, the multimedia artist Chris O’Shea), blend everything →
‘Madonna di Montevergine’, audio + video: Rechenzentrum
‘Tutte le anomalie del tempo verranno regolate’, audio: Marco Messina, video: Riccardo Arena
‘Stich der Tarantel’, audio: Burnt Friedman, video: Anders Weberg & Robert Willim
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Every Step You Take – Ready for your close-up?
One hour documentary about CCTV in Britain
(tags: hacktivism)
CD – Daly City
Born in Taiwan but living in California, David Wang, aka Mochipet, after recording for Tigerbeat6, BPitch Control, remixing for Schematic and Detroit Underground and taking part to several other productions →
