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.
Interactive Screen 1.0 Beautiful Lives — Program Information — The Banff Centre
Interactive Screen 1.0: Beautiful Lives looks at the way new media intersects with our aspirations and ambitions, individual or collective, convergent or contradictory, for the betterment of life
(tags: art →
ISBN 978-1-906496-46-3, OpenMute, 2010, English
Forget about certainties. Forget about authors. Forget about fancy graphic design. Forget about colors. Forget about greyscale. Forget even about page numbers. →
The Vinyl Arcade
Imagine racing remote control cars with audio pick-ups attached to their chassis through a course constructed from a mass of disused vinyl records
(tags: robot music art sound)
Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders – Science →
Daniel Temkin | Velato
Velato is a programming language which uses MIDI files as source code
(tags: art hacking software)
Personal Portable 3D Printer
Personal Portable 3D Printer
(tags: media)
Staalhemel | responsive environment for brainwaves
Staalhemel, responsive environment for brainwaves
(tags: art science sound)
Check the Interferenze photo set here.
The idea of the nonconformist as no longer the black sheep but the one now wearing a digital player and headphones admirably sums up the theme of the 2010 →
zip.disk [musik] :
zip.disk [musik]
(tags: sound music art)
Electroland – Cameron McNall and Damon Seeley
A 45 meter LED display pulses with blue light patterns activated by passing cars.
(tags: design visual urban)
RetroCells — A Retro Spin for Your Modern Tech
A Retro Speaker System & Charger for iPhone
(tags: mobile preservation →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013888, English, U.S.A., 2010
After fifteen years of recurrent and animated debates about the peculiarities of new media art, it is still almost always considered as inappropriate in →
ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! on Vimeo
I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week.
(tags: art green science)
mini-CDr – Electroton
“Snd” is a sound project by v4w.enko, the moniker of the Ukrainian researcher whose real name is Evgen Vaschenko, a multifaceted artist involved with electronic sounds, video streams, and algorithm →
space invaders | NIMk
Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment, 27 August – 7 November, NIMK
(tags: exhibition art videogame)
Micah Frank
Tectonic is a system I’ve been developing to create realtime synthesis based on data from seismic activity
(tags: art sound)
YouTube – →
The wind is a universal natural phenomena, and it’s usually associated with weather conditions and forecasts. But it is still perceived as almost unforeseeable and invisible except for its physical impact on plants →
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping
The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) is an academic journal and online forum to promote research, writing, and digital execution of theories in the field of information mapping and its related disciplines
(tags: design visual software)
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