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 
06:02:02 Netstrike in Argentina.
Today (06/02) at 15:00 Indymedia Argentina organizes a netstrike against Ambitoweb , a conservative newspaper which is carrying out a campaign →
. Art 
06:02:02 Soundboxes, net art sound.
Soundboxes is the work of Michiel Knaven, net Dutch artist, who travels the road of audiovisual works focused sound appearance, →
. EMusic 
05/02/02 Music swapping in the USA and Japan.
That the enjoyment of music is an enjoyable activity on the network is well known, but the →
. Art 
05:02:02 Netomatheque, net art to navigate otherwise.
It will end in a few days (09/02) '3 seconds in the memory of the internet ' , →
. Hacktivism 
05:02:02 Netstrike against the WEF, participated in the mass.
The screen-saver prepared by the Electronic Disturbance Theatre have borne fruit, as with the other leads →
. Art 
05:02:02 Transmediale02, go public!, Festival of new media art in Berlin.
The 2002 edition of transmediale begins today (05/02) in Berlin, with a significant deployment →
. Art 
04:02:02 Googlewhacking.
If art network is also characterized by the use of its unconventional technologies, then the Googlewhacking is in all respects a work of →
. Hacktivism 
04:02:02 Identity Theft and Fraud at the top of the protests of U.S. consumers.
The biggest complaints of the past year for reasons of the →
. Art 
04/02/02 Free Radio Linux.
Free Radio Linux is an online radio station and in ether. Its programs consist of a reading done by a speech →
. EMusic 
04/02/02 BBC and Kenwood choose Ogg Vorbis.
Two important news give further legitimacy to the audio compression format Ogg Vorbis , the only developed according →
