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 Secret Sounds of Spores is an installation created by Yann Seznec and mushrooms expert Patrick Hickey. As the title suggests, Seznec’s intention was to translate the movement of spores into sound. →
Sound installations frequently dispense with linear musical time by means of spatial arrangements. In the work “another soundscape” by Chung-Kun Wang, linear time is reintroduced and represented spatially following the model of western →
Mp3 – w.m.o/r
The disturbing relations between philosophy and improvised music, a combination certainly not unusual for those into experimental music and other patient listeners, often produce a sense that the →
Disembodied performance
Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers features robots as performers
(tags: art music performance robot)
The Fountainhead is the title of a recent version of the 1949 film (directed by King Vidor), made by Société Réaliste, a Parisian art collective founded in 2004 by Ferenc Gróf →
Bits Pics: Kodak's 1975 Model Digital Camera – NYTimes.com
Kodak’s 1975 Model Digital Camera
(tags: media photography preservation)
LAPS / INFINITE STREAM LOOP
Infinite Stream Loop, an audio stream traveling through the world wide web since the 1st july 2010
(tags: art music sound net)
CD – Mille Plateaux
In the last decade the “clicks and cuts” aesthetic has permeated many areas of music, invading other contexts and influencing even those dance genres that are not “minimalist” in →
Projects, E-Static Shadows
The 'E-Static Shadows' installation explores the speculative arena of electrostatic
(tags: art science interface)
Making Future Magic: light painting with the iPad – Blog – BERG
Making Future Magic: light painting with the iPad
(tags: art literature mobile)
YouTube – Ballet Mecanique at →
Bentham’s eighteenth-century dystopia, the idea of an architectural space that allows total visibility and control, returns in the project Panopticons made by a couple of Dutch students at the Utrecht School of the →
CD – Artkillart.Tk
Scratch is presented in the guise of an installation incorporating the world’s fastest industrial robot, modified, according to Michael Sellam’s concept, to interact precisely with the vinyl surface of →
CD – Choose
Microtonal articulations and noise concretions form the expressive stylistic elements of this extremely organized network of audio emergencies. They include the spurious frequencies apparently produced by hissing devices and →
COSMOPOLITES DE TOUS LES PAYS ENCORE UN EFFORT
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana in collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) presents: Société Réaliste, Cosmopolites De Tous Les Pays Encore Un Effort
(tags: art literature psychogeography)
Videos
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[KONTEJNER] – Device_art 3.010
After last year’s introduction of the amazing Japanese Device Art scene at the Device_art exhibition in Zagreb, the newest version of the project, Device_art 3.010 is going to Tokyo! It includes a selection of projects by artists →
CD – Matter
The result of collaboration between the Italian sound-artist David Sani (Shinkei) and the Israeli artist Shay Nassi (mise_en_scene), Scytale introduces itself with truly dark atmospheres that are sensitive, →
