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 – World Edition
This work, co-producted with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) is the latest project by Peter Ablinger, an Austrian composer with a background in jazz and composition who since the eighties has been based in Berlin and has been →
What if we could strike an object from a distance and listen to its acoustic qualities using a pulse of light as a projectile? Aernoudt Jacobs has been investigating the field of photoacoustics, inspired by a lesser-known invention patented by →
Danilo Montanari, ISBN: 978-8897753087, English/Italian, 286 pages, 2014, Italy
During the Artelibro (Italian artists’ book fair) in 2013 there was an exhibition about the use of records as a medium by artists. Selected from the curator’s extensive personal collection, the →
Trees have voices, but they are mostly inaudible. For several decades scientists have been studying the acoustic emissions of plants in order to gain insights into plant physiology. A paper published by Milburn and Johnson in 1966 on the conduction →
CD – Consumer Waste
Playfulness with spatiality is immediately evident in these three recordings (around 29 minutes in total) that were captured and performed in multiple locations in a nature reserve on Kapiti Island, New Zealand. The area is famous →
As with many of our consumer technologies, the historical trajectory of sound recording has been one of progressive banalisation. If the first people to listen to recorded music in the late 19th century thought they were experiencing a form of →
CD – Hubro
Norwegian Frode Haltli is a very sensitive accordionist whose excellent technique has been repeatedly witnessed in a series of works undertaken at the most diverse geographic and stylistic latitudes. In this fourth release for Hubro, the musician →
CD – Dragons Eye
This album opens with iterated patterns that unravel with extreme precision. Appealing multiform textures and subtle crackling audio emergencies accelerate, slow down and reassemble at will in a cascading catalogue of new sequences. The skillful articulations →
Ashgate Pub Co, ISBN: 978-1409441564, English, 277 pages, 2013, UK
This is a rigorous study of sound art in Australia, a product of twenty years of research that contextualises key historical events and theories in the various branches of experimental →
As Europe’s industrial districts are gradually replaced by office blocks with curtain walls, sites once filled by the clamor of machines are turned into glossy and silent images for architecture magazines. In the window of time between closure and demolition →
