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/
Continuum, ISBN-13: 978-1441148636, 224 pages, 2012, English
There’s an interesting quote by Pascal Guignard in this book which seems to epitomize its spirit: “Sound is the territory where one does not contemplate”. It might sound controversial if considered out of →
Zimoun is known for his multiform artworks and installations created from commonplace industrial objects that explore array aesthetics combined with rhythmic sound. His most recent work, 60 Medical Infusion Sets, Water, Fire, Metal Sheets, consists of a room containing medical →
3CD wooden Box – Record Label Records / Cataclyst
“Ambient” has been released in a specially made wooden box containing three CDs and 35 art cards with original photos, drawings, collage and paintings by Abby and Robbie Martin. The →
Having analogue and digital working in perfect sync has always been a theoretical and practical challenge, as they typically rely on different physical interfaces. But Nicolas Bernier ’s “frequencies (a)” is a stellar exception. It’s made of tuning forks mechanically →
CD – Crónica
A hotel in ruins, burdened with memories and environments evocative of fascinating decadence. Here are spaces that became uninhabitable, now only remotely reminiscent of the splendour →
Cod.Act’s Pendulum Choir explores the relationship between gravity, vocal movement in space and choral composition by placing a 9-piece choir on tilting, continuously moving platforms. A revolving, undulating hydraulic jack supports each singer. →
DVD – Illegal Art
Vicky Bennett (People Like Us) has become well known for her audio/visual collages that draw from old movie archives. The Keystone Cut Ups is →
Rer Megacorp [2CD + book], ISBN: 9780956018410, 80 pages, 2012, English
Peter Cusack has traveled to what he defines as “dangerous places”, including sites that have suffered environmental devastation (think Chernobyl) and locations at the →
Stephen Cornford dedicates his experimental artistic work to the production of sounds through the employment of various manipulated objects and techniques. In his recent installation known as Five Introverted Machines, five identical first-generation Philips →
Yuri Suzuki’s designs for unconventional players provide combinations of objects that re-mix not only the content of records but the reproduction media as well. One of his latest pieces presents us with a mix between →
