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.
Ososphere
Les Nuits Electroniques de l’Ososphère. Digital art and music festival in Strasbourg.
(tags: art media music festival)
Máquinas&Almas
Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (“Souls&Machines”) explores the fact that, at the beginning of the 21st century, art and science →
DanmatsuMouse
The death of a mouse, reflected in video and in cursor beahaviors. Software art by Exonemo
(tags: art software video)
Zipper Orchestra :: J o o Y o u n ::
The Zipper Orchestra is an interactive video installation that combines a combination →
pieqf.allshookup.org
Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) is a geologically interactive, kinetic earthwork that has been installed in the township of Parkfield, Central California. This machine controlled earthwork is triggered by near real-time reported Californian earthquakes from Magnitude M 0.1 and above.
(tags: →
Sept. 19, 1982: Can’t You Take a Joke? :-)
First emoticon
(tags: net preservation)
HP Unveils Ultra Fashionista Designer Mini-Notebook
Ultra sleek and fashionable notebook
(tags: mobile media)
Screens | Digital Fringe
Digital Fringe is looking to find screens of every size across Melbourne, regional Victoria and →
YouTube – RFID lighting Sequencer (Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi)
RFID lighting Sequencer (Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi)
(tags: art sound visual media)
D O T S
Perfect for winter usage and keeping your touchscreen devices smudge-free.
(tags: mobile)
CD – Hymen
“Faceted” juxtaposition of rhythmic structures, technoid and “stepped”, catering to Industrial and Breakcore taste with intricate textures, changing atmospheres, digital “darts”and excesses. Welshmen John and Paul Healy (known as →
Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2008
Basel, 23-26 October, Plaid, Fennesz, Vicki Bennett, DJ Q-Bert, Etoy.corporation, David Troy, Flo Kaufmann
(tags: art sound media)
Localvolt: Think globally, power up locally
Generating power right in our own homes and neighborhoods with free energy from nature.
(tags: hacktivism →
CD – Pogus
‘Maledetto Antiphony VIII’ is a project dating back to second half of the sixties. It is split into two tracks of dissimilar composition, which both experiment with complex interweaving →
PhotoshopDisasters
Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter.
(tags: media visual)
[giantJoystick]
A 10 foot tall joystick, modeled after a classic Atari 2600 joystick, is situated in →
CD – Sirr
Oneiric sequences, field recordings and tonal harmonies, disruptions and modulated restarts. Sensitive settings, audio fragments, sound excerpts from an old Spanish movie. A virtuoso flamenco guitar and delicate yet →
AEO is a sound collective undertaking new directions in performance and instrument development formed by rogue engineers Kazuhiro Jo (SWO), Taeji Sawai (Golden Pink Arrow) and Eye Yamatsuka, part of the seminal Japanese noise →
Nick Veasey | X-RAY photographer
Photographies based on x-ray technique
(tags: art media)
YouTube – The Shining (with robots)
Reinterpretation of a famous Kubrik’s Shining scene with a few robots
(tags: video robot)
CD – No-Type
Aim&execute; Dontigny is based in Quebeq and is certainly a compositor who can’t be easily categorized. He is the founding member of the free noise collective Napalm Jazz, and the →
book – MIT Press – ISBN 9780262062749
Some years ago, Lev Manovich called for “software studies” to be established as an interdisciplinary field capable of re-thinking programmable media at the interface of →
