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.
When you take a picture, a moment becomes a memory. The memory becomes matter. Publishing photos, through services like Flickr, has added a new dimension to the photographic process for many people. Publishing a →
CD – Paradigm Discs
The reprint of a pioneering project by Trevor Wishart, completed in 1971, “Machine” could easily be mistaken for a very recent release, so well outlined in its audio →
IT History Society – Resource Sites
This catalog of resource sites concerning IT history is the only one of its kind and is a valuable resource for IT historians and archivists alike
(tags: preservation media)
Speed of Light :: 09.04 – 19.04 :: →
YouTube – NIKE MUSIC SHOE
Hifana is playing music with Nikes flexible running shoes, Nike Free Run+.
(tags: music interface sound)
Artech 2010 “Envisioning Digital Spaces” – 5th International Conference on Digital Arts
Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262123044, USA, 2009, English
In middle nineties EFF founder John Perry Barlow wrote “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” formalizing the new autonomy from the real world bureaucracy →
CD – Pogus
“Equus”, a collaborative project of concrete music, created by combining the strong personalities of Lionel Marchetti and Olivier Capparos. It may boast of being commissioned by →
Reflectius clock
Reflectius features sixty rotating mirrors that successively reflect a single laser beam at precise angles to draw numbers.
(tags: art design)
CD – Home Normal
Stylized algorithmic abstractions, tonal sounds steeped in melodic elements, cross-manipulations resulting from the fusion of textures and granular frequencies. “Day” is subdivided into seven different tracks but the →
As Geoff Huth wrote, “we are living through what might be the greatest age of visual poetry, in a time when the methods of production and distribution are such that the form can →
v i l o o: Frances Farmer's Revenge
all of Nirvana’s tracks from the three albums released while Kurt Cobain was still alive (i.e. Bleach, Nevermind & In Utero), compressed into one long opaque wall of sound, moaning simultaneously
(tags: music sound)
ScribbleBots on Pixelsumo
ScribbleBots, a design concept project from MA student Jon Cumberpatch
(tags: art robot software visual design)
YouTube – Pat Metheny – Orchestrion Preview
Pat Metheny – Orchestrion
(tags: performance robot music sound)
Network Research » Transition Soundings
Transition Soundings by David Birchfield, David Lorig, →
YouTube – PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN
New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
(tags: visual video design urban)
Networked_Performance — Activists Take Over The Big Screen, Manchester England
TheWoosterCollective — April 05, 2010 — At 12am April 1st, a group of “hacktivists” and concerned →
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1584350767, USA, 2009, English
The life of the Italian philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi has been often connected to contemporaneity. After his seminal gestures and exploits in the seventies, his →
MONDO 2000: An Open Source History — Kickstarter
MONDO 2000: An Open Source History is a web project and a book. All those who touched directly upon the history of the scene/magazine (including the earlier versions, High Frontiers and Reality Hackers) →
