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.
Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).
The Stock Photobomber claims to be an art director, now hilariously photobombing himself in classic stock photos.
Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).
The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/
“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.
Lady is a tramp by Dvein is an experimental animation testing the perception of an entity as human or human-like.
Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.
Ryoji Ikeda’s “test pattern [times square]” will bring artist’s trademark flickering black and white patterns to one of the most touristic New York City places, noon to midnight during October 2014.
2CD – Col Legno
Quadrat:sch are a chamber music ensemble that includes Barbara Romen, Christof Dienz, Gunter Schneider, Alexandra Dienz, Zeena Parkins, Herbert Pirker and Kassian Erhart. The band plays many instruments; some →
CD – Line
Inspired by the work of James Tenney, Gyögy Ligeti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Conlon Nancarrow, these eight studies for piano by Seth Horvitz use some simple computer-assisted composition processes. The →
CD – Zeitkratze
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in October 2009 and edited in the summer of the following year in Germany (GreenHouseStudios), these five new compositions by Alvin Lucier resonate →
CD – Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill – two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with →
CD – Entr’acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr’acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated →
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
In Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work →
CD – Hinterzimmer
Oblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and – unmistakably – a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces →
CD – Mosz
Behind the moniker Kapital Band 1 there’s a duo formed by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussman (also known as ‘The Golden Boys’ and ‘Hair’), two musician very →
CD – Cold Blue Music
With microtonal assonances reminiscent of the American minimalist tradition, Charlemagne Palestine excites us again with ‘A Sweet Quasimodo…’, playing on two different Yamaha pianos at the same →
CD – Cold Blue
Complex assonant vocalism exercises, mindful of ‘polite’ inspirations, mediaeval interlacings, reworked in new acoustic research contexts. The work of Daniel Lentz can be placed with the above unusual →
