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.
A year since the Bling Bling Server that hosts the ' mp3blog , a blog made exclusively of sound creations plagiarist Rick Silva aka Cuechamp, one of the most active creators of the scene. Once a →
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04.07.03 Raygun, the Evil Empire by images.
The natural associations between images and words are approached differently nowadays, thanks to the massive indexing made by search engines, →
From June 30 to July 6, 2003 in Athens, Greece, takes life day and night Eclectic Tech Carnival , described as "a seven day and night carnival of exchanging computer related skills". With a difference: organized →
Presented at the Generative Art Conference , Architectural Interpretation of Cellular Automata is the application of scientific knowledge of a sector to another sector, emphasizing in a brilllante the hybridization of knowledge, with surprising results. Developed →
Optigan rightfully belongs to this category, but with a singular peculiarity. The optical organ, in fact, made by Mattel in the early seventies rather than play simulated instruments, drew to a disk the size of an →
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04.07.03 Radical Software, the first electronic art magazine has been digitized.
Among the countless cultural stimuli that crossed the Sixties and the Seventies, there were many of →
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04.07.03 Radical Software, the first electronic art magazine has been digitized.
Among the countless cultural stimuli that crossed the Sixties and the Seventies, there were many of →
Earshot was one of the first projects related to the composition of sound through the network, providing the opportunity to tap into the immense amount of files present in the countless servers around the globe. Available →
If the Japanese guys continue to amaze the West for their habit of dressing up (the so-called 'cosplay', ie 'costume play') as fictional characters (the protagonists of films, cartoons, and so on), the factor 'clothing' in →
MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-23227-8
Mapping the history of new media is an essential task made very difficult by the sheer size of the work involved and the difficult choices which have to be made. The New →
