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.
As human civilization devises ever more powerful machines, living among them may become more and more difficult. People find themselves surrounded by incidentally created sounds and noises which are out of synch with →
One of the most interesting projects that combined science, environmental awareness and art was PigeonBlog, by Beatriz da Costa, with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto. It was based on equipping pigeons with →
dvd video – Lowave – EDV 1394
The invisible geometry of the urban landscape has pervaded every inhabited space. The feeling of being into a full scale model of a recursive →
The locative dimension give us indefeasible points of reference in the daily networked and speedy life. But the process of ‘mapping’ is not obvious nor neutral, even if it has become so easy →
dvd video – IAMAS
Confronting two different cultures is better when both are on the road, so out of their protective and familiar shells (the houses or the offices). The intriguing experiment of grouping some ‘Mobnauts’ →
dvd video – Base Records – base 0606-11
Inspired by the archaic oversized field drawings of the Nasca civilization, this audio video performance produces infinite lines and juxtapositions of abstracts elements in →
Can map making open the way to a more sustainable future? This is the aim of Real Time Rome, the SENSEable City Lab contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale. SENSEable →
Installed as ‘Distant Views‘ for the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival and subsequently as ‘Culture Catchers’ at the gallery G-A-S-P, the artwork made by Michael Sheridan is a sound installation consisting of a transparent →
A virtual space that sprouts from the inner urban fabric. An interface that let the users – equipped with iPods, mobiles and laptops – enter wifi networks and simply share sound files. →
Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist active internationally. Her conceptually-generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her latest artwork, presented at ZeroOne San Jose / →
