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 – Extreme
Claudio Parodi, inspired by the sounds of Pauline Oliveros (a sensitive composer and accordion virtuoso), takes up the theme of harmonic tuning procedures, producing a mix of assonant, gloomy, →
andrew garton » Sensorium Re-Connected
On 11 January 2009 KunstRadio (11.03pm – 11.45pm (CEST & CET) & Online) broadcasts an entirely new version of this work. Sensorium Re-Connected, a generative composition for for 5 PCs and 2 voices, commemorates the work →
CD – Sonic Arts Network
Un severo approccio avant-garde caratterizza la nuova release del Sonic Arts Network, progetto che in questo caso esplora un utilizzo estremo – personalissimo ed eccentrico ma ancora ‘intimo’ – della voce umana, strumento delicatissimo, →
CD – Touch
Vibrations travel through air and are captured by our hearing apparatus. The cochlea is a spiral-shaped pipe with tiny ciliate cells working as sensitive receptors. By modulating the amplitude →
FILTER
Shotgun Architecture at P40, A sound and light installation by Justin Bennett. Can one make sound visible? What happens to our thought processes and emotional perception when sound and its movement is performed or even manipulated in space?
(tags: art sound)
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CD – Touch
Melodic emphasis and discontinuous threads, fragments, hybridizations and crossed patterns: a thick and changing sea of sounds submerges the listener with ambient textures and thousands of streams, confluences and stagnations. →
CD – Staalplaat
Spacey electronic textures evolve into oblique sound cuts, incorporating truncated textual elements. The new Mort Aux Vaches album by Tarek Atouri isn’t comfortable on first listening, with its jumpy →
YouTube – Shouting in the Datacenter
Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency
(tags: sound hacking media)
Futuristic Security Checkpoints Know What You Do Before You Do It
New security check points in 2020 will look just →
Hardformat – Reaching for the sublime in music design.
music design oriented blog
(tags: art music visual)
VHS Rides Off Into The Sunset – Home Video News – Digital Trends
The venerable VHS tape is finally vanishing in the rear-view mirror as the last →
ucDARnet presents SCALABLE RELATIONS
Scalable Relations is a series of networked exhibitions that present media artworks by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet) across UC campuses from January 9 – March 14, 2009
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Scheidegger & Spiess, ISBN 9783858812100, Germany, 2008, English / German
A yearbook published by the Department of Art & Media at the Zurich University of the Arts details the →
Internet Archive: Details: Growing Up In America
Growing Up In America: Breathing Together, Revolution of the Electric Family, 1986. A documentary about the spirit of the Sixties and its leaders. Interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, Deborah →
Vocento
Competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO: the art of exhibiting art online
(tags: art preservation net)
Colony
Colony is part artificial lifeform, part icon of a digital media landscape. The weathered totems use light and sound to communicate with one another in response to human →
ctrlaltdel.org—–> zdwe_16 [toon/ pan]
abstract noise sequencer
(tags: music sound art)
YouTube – New Fisher Price Dj Controller – Exclusive Review
The ground breaking MBRP-101 from Fisher Price is the best all in one music playback solution for mobile and club djs that need →
