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.
CD – Denovali
In this second LP – his first one was Feed the Tape in 2016 and was released by Denovali – Hentschel puts aside a more experimental and purer approach to welcome pop influences and less persistent contemporary →
CD – Farpoint
Rosa Arruti, better knows under the name Nad Spiro, is a long term activist of the dark-electronic and experimental fields. After the last work on tape, La Casa Encendida, a project featuring Maurizio and Roberto Opalio (My →
CD – Pulver und Asche
Delicate sounds, murmured harmonies and no sound editing. “What is recorded is what will be heard,” is the authors’ statement about the project. After a long partnership, Rudy Decelière and Marcel Chagrin release their first →
CD – Midira
Under the alias of Tegh, in Downfall, the Iranian electronic sound artist Shahin Entezami sets together some elements of noise and repetitive, charming, melodious ambient loops. It would be hard to imagine without prior research, but the →
CD – Errant Bodies
This release by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is the result of two different sound projects, a live performance in 2010, Outline , and an installation from two years later, e Caressing the Studio. Both projects shared →
CD – DSS2016
20.20, by the sound artists Maria Salgado and Ixiar, originates from a project supported by the Observatorio de la Escucha, during the events planned in San Sebastián, European Capital of Culture in 2016. The release records →
CD + booklet – Immediata
This album is a 49 minutes long composition, played by Anthony Pateras on the pipe organ and Erkki Veltheim on electric violin. From the beginning, the work shows a dark and hypnotic continuum. The ghostly →
LP – Aussenraum
Ethereal, suffering, unpredictable but also excruciating frequencies soon peep out in this issue by Jim Haynes for Aussenraum. Electrical Injuries is a composition divided into six different tracks which are packed with tangled textures, unhealthy atmospheres and →
CD – Idiosyncratics
This is an unprecedented collaboration between Francisco Meirino – the prolific electronic composer living in Losanna, well-known for his works on the Misantropic Agendeìa, Entr’acte and Antifrost – and Miguel A. Garcia, aka Xedh, a digital manipulator →
LP – BAU / Sussidiaria
Two main tracks of 20 min 34 seconds and 20 min 11 seconds give birth to the latest performance of Forbici di Manitù (Manitu Rossi, Vittore Baroni and Gabriella Marconi) entitled “GPS”, that is →
