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.
A Class Reaches Out and Touches High-Tech Art – NYTimes.com
Chicago Art Department, is in a position to do something useful with his internal conflict. And so he has, introducing a five-week class called “iPhone Art”
(tags: art mobile)
CD – Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, →
Roboexotica
radical hedonism in man-machine communication
(tags: art festival robot)
Scope
TREEHOUSE: A Found e-mail Romance designed for the iPhone in four Appisodes™
(tags: mobile literature)
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam | threatpost
The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have →
CD” – Evol/Entr’acte
The fifth work in the ‘EVOL’s Punani’ series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the →
IIE is an interactive acoustic installation through which Reinhard Gupfinger researches infrasounds, that is, those sounds that, having a frequency less than 20/16 Hertz (20/16 cycles per second), are below the audible threshold of →
Pope passes special Vatican copyright giving him exclusive right to use his name, title, image Boing Boing
Pope passes special Vatican copyright giving him exclusive right to use his name, title, image
(tags: copyright)
Every day the same dream – molleindustria
A mostly grey →
ingimp | www.ingimp.org
ingimp is a version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program that has been instrumented to collect real-time usability data
(tags: software design hacktivism)
Zero Dollar Laptop: Furtherfield Media Art Ecologies in partnership with Access Space
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a →
PIXMAVEN – The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator
Feeling inarticulate? Critically gauche? Or just verbally impotent?
We here at Pixmaven have developed The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator
(tags: art design humor generative literature)
BCL ~ / / / The Artistic Research Laboratory →
Welcome – 26C3 Public Wiki
Here Be Dragons, 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
(tags: hacking hacktivism festival)
Global Guerrillas: SUPER EMPOWERMENT: Hack a Predator Drone
Skygrabber. $25.95 Easy to use →
TWITTERATURE
60 of the greatest works of western literature each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence.
(tags: net literature art)
USB flash drive – Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing’ is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. →
Identity Theft Preventing Privacy Wallet
Identity Theft Preventing Privacy Wallet
(tags: privacy)
Invisible Woman (part 1)
Marianne Petit's Interactive Pop-Up Playhouse
(tags: design media visual)
TruePower UCS Power Outlet With Built in USB Ports
patent pending
(tags: design)
100 años de histeria ‘antipiratería’
For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster
(tags: copyright sound music)
World of →
CD – Strukto
This is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word ‘Black’ in an impeccably neutral →
