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.
Erreur d’impression. Publier à l’ère du numérique, Last event with live presentations by Nandita Kumar (India) and Mez Breeze (skype live from Goulburn, Australia). https://www.facebook.com/events/484065621705415/?context=create&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Dubbing VHS as an involuntary subversive activity during Cold War in Romania. http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002708995/vhs-vs-communism.html
Ryan Roy found people on Facebook with the same name, dressed like in their profile picture and sent them friends requests, and all of them creeped out and changed their profile picture immediately http://imgur.com/a/IqXWj
The Machine to Be Another, swapping visions to swap self-perception http://www.themachinetobeanother.org
Unpainted, Media art fair January 17-20, Munich http://www.unpainted.net
Zeno of Elea di Darius Kazemi, philosophical and conceptual video game http://tinysubversions.com/game/zeno/
Contre Temps, personal exhibition of Olga Kisseleva at Galerie Rabouan Moussion featuring works related to time. http://www.galerie-rabouan-moussion.com/en/exhibitions/olga-kisseleva-contre-temps/37
The media archeology of names: Internet was also a transistor radio from 1969 (Internet Model S-1000 Solid State All-Transistor, c.1969) http://www.markhillpublishing.com/the-internet-transistor-radio/
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 →
