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.
Cell Phone Disco
Cell Phone Disco is a surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or recieve a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.
(tags: art mobile visual)
the atlas →
Banquete photo set
The Banquete project is a series of exhibitions which promote the Spanish state-of-the-art scene. This year’s installment (the third) took place at the Laboral in Gijon. The project is very well organised →
BBS: The Documentary
A documentary about the fundamental ancestor of internet.
(tags: hacktivism video net)
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
Very dilated and ethereal atmospheres, micro-sonorities, “urgent” improvisations and thorny textures. Then, melodic snippets, drones, harsh and distorted sequences. Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek (a moniker that would mislead →
50 ans d’Art Interactif, anniversaire des Arts électroniques, 1955-2005, Paris
A brief Franch history
(tags: art media)
Optical Tone
Swinging tumbler shape product to allow human perception to deal with RGB spectrum.
(tags: art media visual)
Machinecollective.org – Prototyping modules
Open source electronic music gears.
(tags: music sound)
souvenir | the landscape as a place of work
Using GPS to follow the route of an agriculturist preparing his land for potato production.
(tags: art mobile visual)
Mute magazine Vol2 #9
The new print issue of Mute magazine is out now. Vol2 #9 takes on the UK’s services-for-surveillance State, technological utopias, green capitalism and much more!
(tags: art media hacktivism)
Micro Bionic : Radical Electronic Music and Sound Art in →
3 CD – Erratum
An anthological release, yet still very interesting, “Erratum # 4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry” was edited by the homonymous →
New York based artist Kurt Ralske is a master of visual image manipulation. With his project “Motion-Extraction-Reanimation Series“, the artist reassembles material from various commercial movies such as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Alphaville” →
book – JRP Ringier – ISBN13: 9783905770636
Carsten Nicolai is a unique case in the sound art world. Somehow he’s the prototypal of the ideal contemporary sound artists: not classifiable merely as →
Developing the most “natural” human-machine interface has always been one of the IT industry Holy Grails. The ancestral codes that oversee our instinctual behaviors are more often than not misguided by cultural signs →
book – Institute of Network Cultures – ISBN13: 9780826418456
Printed as the conference proceedings of the homonymous two days conference, this reader take the “creative industries” concept by the UK Blair government →
CD – Raster-Noton
It remains surprising to recognize in this album booklet Christine Carol Newby, aka Cosey Fanni Tutti, in the clothes of a very stiff →
