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.
Esc Clock won’t let you be tardy – Designlaunches.com
Esc Clock works wirelessly with a pair of speakers and a dock
(tags: art software visual)
Chris O’Shea – Audience
Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. →
Turn Your Couch into a “Disney” Ride for Under $300 | With Photos
ButtKickers. a device meant for installation underneath a seat or sofa in order to provide chair-rumbling effects to help you “feel” the film.
(tags: sound)
TAKEOVERS & MAKEOVERS
Artistic Appropriation, Fair →
“Tantalum Memorial“, by the artists Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji is a telephony-based memorial built from a 1938 telephone exchange rescued from the old Alumix factory in Bolzano, Italy which is meant to address the →
CD – Raster-Noton
As if dragged out of time in a world of infinite numbers, data and multi-dimensional abstract geometries, Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘Test Pattern’ explores the intricate relationships between auditory microstructures, signals →
CD – Errant Bodies
Field recordings, very atypical sounds and effects, envelopes unraveled in a series of documentary micro-narrations, carefully divided into different settings and limited spaces. The nine “Dirty Ear” tracks →
doraballa-ommo: Manfred Mohr, selection from early algorithmic experiments 1969-1973
Pioneering generative art
(tags: art visual software)
Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Transnational Convergences in African Digital Art
Digital artists IngridMwangiRobertHutter, a collective from Kenya and Germany, have created Cryptic, a Traveler’s Diary (2007), that →
doraballa-ommo: Manfred Mohr, selection from early algorithmic experiments 1969-1973
Pioneering generative art
(tags: art visual software)
Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Transnational Convergences in African Digital Art
Digital artists IngridMwangiRobertHutter, a collective from Kenya and Germany, have created Cryptic, a Traveler’s Diary (2007), that →
Failing hard drive sounds – Datacent
The reality quintessence of glitch
(tags: sound)
CD – Baskaru
Extremely delicate harmonic passages, “clicky”, dense and slightly “gummy” acoustics, interwoven with expanded patterns, with an almost oneiric quality in the juxtaposition of crackle and melody, finally combining to →
Sound Wave
a metaphorical physical wave of melted vinyls
(tags: art music sound)
Filippo Minelli | Contradictions
famous social networking platform names spray-painted in completely different public places.
(tags: art visual net)
Inquisitive Devices – 2008
Questioning and engaging with the proliferation of mobile devices in urban space
(tags: mobile music sound)
Stairway to iPhone
Stairway to Heaven with the Sonic Mule iPhone app.
(tags: music performance sound software visual)
CCCS – ART, PRICE AND VALUE
A seminal exhibition →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262633635, U.S.A, 2008
Music beyond composing. Dj Spooky edits an anthology about “music as one of the most immaterial →
CD – Flux
Frank Rothkamm is always surprising, attaching curious anecdotes to his projects, which are sometimes biographical, or – as in this case – focused more on the genesis of →
SOCIAL SOUVENIR
Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they their name and address. The information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after →
