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.
The new Neural issue is out. Premiere issue in English.
F R E E: CENTERFOLD ‘no.10’ by Lia
.Hacktivism History, Tommaso Tozzi interview
.Net.Criticism, Geert Lovink interview
.5th Hackmeeting
.Connecting Data Clouds, Howard Rheingold interview
Plug & Pray choose your religion, Wikipedia: free no-copyright encyclopedia, Swappingtons exchanging books and records on the web, Attacking spammers by drowing them in paper, Injunction Generator, Ubermorgen’s legal art.
Kevin D. Mitnick: The Art of Deception; Thomas: Hacker Culture; Weinberger: Small Pieces Loosely Joined; Verton: Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers; Sarai Reader 02; (edited by) Frohne Weibel: Ctrl [Space], Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Ideas; Bard Soderqvist: Netocracy; DiCorinto Tozzi: Hacktivism; Geert Lovink: Dark Fiber, Geert Lovink: Uncanny Networks; Fibreculture Reader, NL.Design: Mobile Minded.
.Vectorial Music, Carsten Nicolai interview
.8bit Community, Micromusic.net interview
.Conscious Vjing, Otolab interview
Erratum Errata dj Spooky remixing Marcel Duchamp, Invisible Cities sounds of the cities, Atmospherics sounds reconstructed from data, IanniX 0.54 software dedicated to Iannis Xenakis, Gameboyzz Orchestra Project the Nintendo sound.
Tonne – Soundtoy, Scanner+Tonne – Sound Polaroids, Battery Operated – Chases through Nonplaces, Fb 50.
Alderman: Sonic Boom; Wollscheid: Selected Works 1990-2000; Leitner: Geometry of Sound; Roads: Microsound, Sobol: Digitopia Blues.
[The User], Daedelus, Electric Pavillon, Donna Summer, Forma 1.02, Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 9, Radiotopia, Manos Arriba!, Sogar, Institut Fuer Feinmotorik, Audio-Tourism Remixes, The Soft Pink Truth, Dialtones, Bip Hop Generation 6, Son of Clay, Scanner, 21st Century Breaks, Pankow.
.Fuzzy Biological Sabotage: Critical Art Ensemble interview.
.Biotelematics: Eduardo Kac interview.
.Digital is Not Analog festival
.Virus Charms and Self Creating Codes
Runme.org software art database, Grey Area self-portrait through informations, 32.000 points of light: worlds descripted using light and sound, GoogleSynth new images from Google’s archives, Data Diaries the memory of data.
(.dis)LOCATIONS, fineArt Forum
Grzinic: Stelarc; Frieling: Media Art Interaction the 80s and 90s in Germany; Goldberg Siegwart: Beyond Webcams; Install.exe – Jodi; Levin Lia Meta Ward: 4×4 Generative Design Life / Oblivion; Kember: Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life; Sick Reiche: Technics of cyber <> feminism < mode = message > Hayles: Writing Machines; Unplugged Ars Electronica 2002; Belly: The Cybercultures Reader; Wilson: Information Arts; Brouwer Mulder Archined: Transurbanism; Burnham: Supercade; Wishart Bochsler: Leaving Reality Behind; Ascott: Art Technology Consciousness.
