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.
. Hacktivism 
20:06:02 Hackmeeting 2002 to TPO in Bologna.
Begins June 21 Hackmeeting the fifth national TPO Bologna. The appointment completely self-organized and sponsor-free, allows the meeting →
. EMusic 
20:06:02 Nio, circular sequencing of singing.
Nio Jim Andrews is a work of audiovisual poetry, which uses samples of voices recited and sung. A strange →
. Art 
20:06:02 Sound Particles 1.2, the interactions of composition.
Sound Particles 1.2 is an opera interactive sound that represents the musical composition according to the interaction →
. Hacktivism 
06.19.02 Images from satellites Born transmitted in an unsafe manner.
The images of the flights of the planes of NATO in the Balkans are transmitted →
. Art 
06/19/02 Presentation art.comm, book on artistic communities.
On June 19, at the e-m arts / studio morra of Naples held the presentation of 'Art.comm, collectives, →
. Art 
19:06:02 Salon Internacional De Arte Y Coloquio Digital, Cuba
It was inaugurated on June 17 at the Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau Havana →
. Art 
06.19.02 Charity Auction for The Thing.
The Thing, the historic online community of net artists working since 1991, it turned once again at a charity →
. Art 
19:06:02 Webby Awards: net art.
Were proclaimed winners of the category net.art of the famous Webby Awards, the prestigious awards to the best sites judged →
. EMusic 
19:06:02 Webby Awards: emusic.
Were awarded the Webby Awards 2002 for the category music , won, according to the judges, from 'Looplabs', a real musical →
. EMusic 
18:06:02 E-plan, evaluate, a pianist on the other side of the world.
Piano-e-Competition is an international competition of pianists held in Sundin Music Hall at →
