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.
CD – Denovali
This new release by Matthew Collings – a composer now based in Scotland – is published by Denovali and features six compositions. Collings, who has been involved in several interesting collaborations (e.g. with Dag Rosenqvist of Jasper →
CD – Aposiopèse
Yvan Etienne is active as a sound experimenter interested in issues surrounding site-specific audio installations and as a composer proposing weighty reflections on perception and the physicality of sounds in space. Etienne has not been lacking for →
CD – Monochrome Vision
Benny Braaten, aka Origami Galaktika, has released a number of works since 1996 – LPs, double LPs, CDRs and CDs. Some of these have been self-produced while labels such as Speeding Across My Hemisphere, Black Orchid, →
CD – Aagoo/Rev. Lab
Behind the moniker “Connect_icut” hides Sam Macklin, an English artist now based in Vancouver. Since 2005 this experimenter has released five albums and several side-projects, equally divided between free-folk ensembles and electronic music. In Crows & →
CD – Touch / Tone 48
Many of our readers will remember Geir Jenssen as the experimenter beneath the Biosphere moniker. Considered one of ambient techno music’s main representatives, he has since shifted towards more rarefied and abstract elaborations. Stromboli →
CD – f4 Music
On first listening it is not easy to recognize the genealogy of this duo, whose origins are grounded in the rave and techno scenes of the nineties, in dj →
CD – Ash / Touch
It is always difficult to begin discussing new releases by Christian Fennesz. Maybe this is due to the size of his personality, or perhaps it is the complex →
CD – Aural Terrains
In the form of a reflection on emotional, psychological and physiological involvements with the words “home” and “territory”, the sounds that underlie this project include words, narrated stories, →
CD – Knivitu
Here the sequences impress themselves in an iterated, hybrid union of melodious envelopes and synthetic drones; ambient interlacing characterized by very dilated and hypnotic knits. A sense of suspension →
CD – Degem
Degem
Concretist music, abstract and environmental, juxtaposed together with hardly classifiable research and field recordings: this is the substance – in short – of fourteen different authors selected and edited by →
