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.
CD – Room40
Recorded live at the Lisbon’s OFF Festival in May 2008, this collaborative project by Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner is specifically focused on the relationship resulting →
Big Brother Viewer
Anopticon, surveillance camera in Venice.
(tags: hacktivism video tv)
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Tridimensional urban animation
(tags: video visual tv art)
The Human Voice in a New World
Electronic Music Foundation presents a series of three concerts exploring new levels of meaning and expressivity for the human voice.
(tags: art performance sound)
Floating Points 6: Games of Culture/Art of Games
A Film Screening, Symposium and →
The Human Voice in a New World
Electronic Music Foundation presents a series of three concerts exploring new levels of meaning and expressivity for the human voice.
(tags: art performance sound)
Floating Points 6: Games of Culture/Art of Games
A Film Screening, Symposium and →
“Tumbarumba” by New York-based media artist Ethan Ham is a Firefox extension that implants stories by “outstanding authors” into the text of ordinary websites. This unexpected infiltration of poetry into common everyday web →
Art Fag City » Wikipedia Art Lasts All Day!
That was quick. Wikipedia Art, a conceptual project conceiving Wikipedia as a medium in the same way artists use land in Land Art, lasted all of a day before the wikisoldiers →
Art Fag City » Wikipedia Art Lasts All Day!
That was quick. Wikipedia Art, a conceptual project conceiving Wikipedia as a medium in the same way artists use land in Land Art, lasted all of a day before the wikisoldiers →
Errant Bodies, ISBN 9780977259410, U.S.A. / Denmark, 2007, English
This is another essential book for any artist interested in sound, originated by the clever and productive mind of Brandon Labelle, a →
re cycling sampling jamming
Recycling_Sampling_Jamming. Künstlerische Strategien der Gegenwart, 26.-28. Februar 2009, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
(tags: hacktivism copyright art)
RE/SENSE
We are working on a art project at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, charting our discoveries as we search for the fragrance of the colour green : If we could chart the odour of the world over time, →
Ocean_v1 by Masayuki Akamatsu and Wolf Nkole Helzle is a computer screen with a video camera on the top, that records the face of the person in front of it. As well as →
DVD – Nocords
Shot in 2003 in Mongolia, ‘Ohrmong’, with sequences and cut-ups of abstract images, recounts a train trip through those far away, exotic lands. Sounds and images are selected by Stefan →
Revolver, ISBN 9783865884534, Germany, 2008, English
Radio is one of the mediums whose death has been announced many times. But as a phoenix, it systematically arises from its own ashes, finding new →
