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.
Check the Habitar photo set here.
Invisible Architectures: the curiosity generated by this paradox is the starting point of Habitar – Bending the urban frame, the new stage of the broader curatorial path taken by →
Nowhere / Now / Here photo set
Nowhere / Now / Here is an exhibition organized by LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón: 78 works by 67 artists from 20 countries, exhibited →
ISEA 2008 photo set
More than one doubt was raised with the choice of Singapore as host city for ISEA 2008. Indeed, William Gibson’s description of the city, coined in Wired mag a decade →
Banquete photo set
The Banquete project is a series of exhibitions which promote the Spanish state-of-the-art scene. This year’s installment (the third) took place at the Laboral in Gijon. The project is very well organised →
Play Cultures photo set
The so called ‘game culture’ is becoming a vast cultural territory spreading from its pop origins to the growing academic studies. “Play Cultures” was a properly named exhibition, symposium and →
Homo Ludens Ludens photo set
Videogame “buzz” alone (that has never stopped in the last five years) would have been a good reason to push the monumental Asturian institution “Laboral” (dealing with art, →
book – Kehrer Verlag – ISBN 9783939583400
Art Machines Machine Art photo set
The autonomous physical production made by a machine has often been perceived as “magic”. The perception that a non-organic →
Transmediale 08 photo set
Transmediale festival 2008 edition brought a series of important innovations: a new artistic director, Stephen Kovats, taking over Andreas Broeckmann after a seven-year period; the coming back to the Haus →
Photo set
The Centro De Arte y Creacion Industrial Laboral of Gijon (in the Asturias), produces (in collaboration with the Fundación Telefónica) and hosts Emergentes, an exhibition of Latin American artists who communicate using the →
Photo set
Middle-nineties were undoubtedly a seminal period for the media arts with flourishing new international initiatives that boosted by the global telematic networks advent, connecting media history with the future of →
