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.
Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar – Medialab-Prado Madrid
Seminar about urban screens and public space directed by architect Nerea Calvillo takes place on September 28, 29 and 30
(tags: media video visual)
Conflux 2009
Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice
(tags: mobile psychogeography festival performance art)
YouTube – 8-bit trip
1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of →
Over 1,200 NYC Trash Cubes Sold – PSFK
To date, over 1,200 of his ‘Garbage of New York City’ cubes have sold to residents of more than 25 different countries worldwide
(tags: art hacktivism)
TSM
The Turbulence Sound Matrix or TSM is a truly →
CD – Mutable Music
The elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O’Donnell (percussion) are twisted →
Touchable Holography
Touchable Holography, you can feel raindrops falling on your hand
(tags: video science)
Metilparaben: Generatore automatico di proclami di Berlusconi
A simple Berlusconi's blurbs generator (in Italian)
(tags: generative literature)
Mouth-to-Mouth (2009)
Mouth-to-Mouth, an installation featuring the intimate sound of a single kiss as the →
CD – Faitiche
A multifaceted cluster of different auditive materials, a set of miniatures, a choreographic movement of field recordings: it is not surprising if ‘the Society for the →
// Anders Weberg // Artist and Filmmaker // Recycled Image Studio //
A 9hour 9minute and 9seconds long audio visual excursion by Swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg, released on 2009/09/09 on p2p networks.
(tags: art net video mobile)
After the Net
After the →
Pa++ern is an installation piece bringing about new interactions in social media by utilizing user-generated code strings via Twitter. It converts this data into a textile end-product using embroidering machinery. Media artists Daito Manabe →
Don’t Click Here @ {Design Educator}
Are we controlling the mouse, or does it control us?
(tags: net interface)
YouTube – TIJDVERKIJKER
Tijdverkijker is an interactive installation by Geert Mul exploring surveillance-kind of camera pictures in time.
(tags: hacktivism visual tv art media)
Mais je ne →
ICC ONLINE | Open Space 2009 | Works | Mission G: sensing the earth
This exhibition introduces five projects that cut across art and science and share a common forward-looking vision. Each, looking towards the future of our globe, takes as →
Quelques premières de l'histoire d'Internet
Nous n'évoquerons pas ici le "First!" proclamé en tête des commentaires, mais quelques grandes premières de l'histoire du web
(tags: net preservation)
[DAM]Berlin – CURRENT
You can persue your desire for slowing down your bustling everyday life in the →
In the multi-faceted genre of augmented reality gaming, many artists have attempted to translate virtual aspects of digital games into the physical world. These projects include everything from creating virtual maps transposed over physical →
YouTube – the reacTogon – chain reactive performance arpeggiator
The reacTogon is a multi-touch sensitive music arpeggiator based on the harmonic table.
(tags: art media music sound video interactive interface)
artificiel : POWEr
POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations, by Alexandre →
Video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band have certainly altered the way we interact with music by filling a quenchable void once solely occupied by air guitar and karaoke. →
