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.
In a black environment of shapes and garbled sounds someone is lurking. The viewer walks through an environment which could well be that of a first-person shoot-em-up videogame: a jungle of logos, text, bright →
Retrieving Humanity
Retrieving Humanity is a one of a kind interactive performance and installation that will bring live streaming video and audio from around the world to Santa Fe
(tags: art net performance mobile)
dvd, VOL 14, FALL 2009, U.S.A., English
This is the usual excellent selection by Aspect (a bi-annual video-magazine on dvd) on a topic tough to explore: the Middle East. →
ZKM Exhibition
Seven years after "fast forward," the exhibition fast forward 2 will show a wide range of new video acquisitions from the internationally renowned private collection of Ingvild Goetz from Munich
(tags: art exhibition video)
mtschaefer | demand for print
praising Neural…
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Sometimes they have evolved. Sometimes they have only appeared briefly and then mysteriously lost all their functionality and appeal. Obsolete technological objects, once cutting-edge, turn into modern fossils in the hands of Chistopher →
NOISE & CAPITALISM » THE BOOK
This book, Noise & Capitalism, is a tool for understanding the situation we are living through.
(tags: hacktivism music)
Reverse The Wave: Introduction
"Reversing the Wave" is a 'Subvertisement' by American film maker Deena DeNaro, that brings Nokia's →
India Habitat Centre, volume 9, April 2008 – March 2009, India, English, 2009
How much we really know about artists using communication technologies in countries not deeply involved in the art market? →
Luca De Rosso offers to all those who have dreamed of manipulating a digital sample by literally touching it with their hands, a way to turn their dreams into reality. “Otto”, the name of →
publicdomain
public//domain, a Festival of Digital Art, Music, Interaction and Screenings
(tags: festival art media)
Virta-Flaneurazine
Virta-Flaneurazine Clinic at the exhibition, “Tangible Spiritualities”
(tags: art hacktivism)
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899552782, English, Germany, 2010
According to Olia Lialina: “Two ideas have occupied the minds of new media designers for several decades: humanization of computers and the materialization of →
Art games are usually meant to reconsider rules, but often this reduces to just playing with conventions. “Sleep is Death (Geisterfahrer)” by Jason Rohrer, famous for his early controversial “Passage” game, is a →
Mediamatic.net – Mapping for Change will start early!
Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9, bringing together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps
(tags: art mobile design)
Art | Basel – Art and Technology
Art and →
2010 ASAE National Symposium and Retreat « The World Listening Project
American Society for Acoustic Ecology National Symposium "Listening for the Future"
(tags: sound art music)
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0982075487, USA, 2010, English
Square and compact, this book is reminiscent of an old tin box, like those used to contain ginger biscuits or →
