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.
Rhizome | Binary Beat (2008) – Niklas Roy
This is an experiment, where I count one byte up – from 00000000 to 11111111. I have assigned a sound to each bit and when it switches from 0 to 1, the sound →
Connective Mutations – Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century
Seminar with Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) in September at 16Beaver (NY). “Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century”. Cyberspace may be infinite, but cybertime is not.
(tags: hacktivism media net)
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Screen Grab
Screen Grab, a new series curated by jonCates and Nicholas O’Brien for The Nightingale, aims to bring New Media Art to experimental cinema audiences
(tags: art media video net)
I-Spy on the Pavement « Walking Home to 50
Amazingly, the 1961 book →
Screen Grab
Screen Grab, a new series curated by jonCates and Nicholas O’Brien for The Nightingale, aims to bring New Media Art to experimental cinema audiences
(tags: art media video net)
I-Spy on the Pavement « Walking Home to 50
Amazingly, the 1961 book →
Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
This is a new reprint (the first release was in 2003) of an important dvd which gathers a series of audio/visual artworks made by Phill Niblock from the →
Brazilian TV host accused of running deadly crime ring | World news | The Guardian
When Brazilian police raided the house of Wallace Souza, a popular Amazonian MP who doubles as a TV presenter, they might have expected to find scripts →
Brazilian TV host accused of running deadly crime ring | World news | The Guardian
When Brazilian police raided the house of Wallace Souza, a popular Amazonian MP who doubles as a TV presenter, they might have expected to find scripts →
Game Art Database by Mathias Jansson
This is a database with artworks from groupexhibitions with Game Art, i.e contemporary art inspirered of computergames technologhy, aesthetic and culture.
(tags: art videogame)
Game Art Database by Mathias Jansson
This is a database with artworks from groupexhibitions with Game Art, i.e contemporary art inspirered of computergames technologhy, aesthetic and culture.
(tags: art videogame)
Wii Spray
The foundational basis for the project goes well beyond replacing real graffiti as an art form. Moreover, WiiSpray is to be seen as an interface to give graffiti a new virtual level surpassing tactile boundaries of the tangible →
