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.
CD – Non Visual Objects
The timely recording of a concert by Christophe Charles at the SND Studios in Sheffield, England, in March 2009, gave birth to a performance that goes by →
The Longest Poem in the World
"The Longest Poem in the World" is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.
(tags: art literature generative humor mashup social)
welcome :: make art 2010
make art, festival of free art and →
Continuum Pub Group, 296 pages, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0826429711
The title of this book is a good start. In fact it starts where →
YouTube – Apotheosis
Apotheosis, Lillian Feldman Schwartz, "Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured work in computer animation I have seen." –
(tags: art video software)
CD – Creative Sources
Jeff Carey, Robert van Heumen and Bas van Koolwijk “synchronize” their laptops, moving between SuperCollider, Lisa and Max/MSP/Jitter. Synthetic musical tremors, glitches and disturbed drones (in the first two), →
“This painting is not available in your country” is a spartan acrylic on canvas. The title immediately conjures the question of “regional lockout”, a business →
2CD – Kvist
The second of two CDs included with this elegant hardback is a precious reissue of a seminal release by Tom Hamilton (that originally appeared on Somnath, the composer’s personal →
Projects
In the Long Run (2010) by art collective IOCOSE is a reconstruction of a possible future high profile media event
(tags: art video media hacking performance)
CD – Room40
After activating the player, all you hear in the room – a place dedicated to listening – is the laptop fan and some noise coming from the road, and →
DVD, microcinema
, 2010
Released in 1997 this movie celebrated one of the most underrated woman in the history of technology. In fact, Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (here interpreted by →
CD – Ad Noiseam
“Vade”, the debut album by Roel Funcken, one of two founders of the combo Funckarma, reflects many starts and contemporary electronic envelopes, connecting diverse trends and attitudes, in →
Re-akt!
RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting
(tags: art exhibition media)
iPhone Fingerpainting
iPhone Fingerpainting
(tags: art mobile visual)
CD – Aagoo
Elegant cinematic and orchestral movements, made using both acoustic and digital instruments, are unraveled in rarefied and narrative structures and juxtaposed with melancholic, anxious sequences by Philippe →
John F. Simon, Jr.: innerhole – September 11 – October 23, 2010 – Gering & López Gallery
solo exhibition
(tags: art exhibition media)
Hometaping, hello
'Hometaping' is a big effort to help as many people as possible to record an album of their own →
