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.
Custom turntables
Mike Dishers aesthetic and functional turntables
(tags: music media)
VVORK “Permanent Vacation” by Cory Arcangel
Two unattended computers send endlessly bouncing out-of-office auto-responses to each other. .
(tags: art video hacking net literature)
Yellow Drum Machine | Let’s Make Robots!
Little robots that plays →
Mattin – Broken Subject – Anti-Copyright
Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny – Two – Non Visual Objects
Autistici – Broken Guitar, Discarded Violin – 12K
Klaus
Schulze – Stardancer – Revisited
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One of the most obscure aspect of digital technology lies in its supreme inner complexity, constantly growing. The dark zones of running software through nanoscale scale circuits are clearly challenging human understanding of →
ISBN 0977597806
edited by Jillian Hamilton
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
29.90 Euro (including shipping in Europe )
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book + dvd – Australasian CRC for Interaction Design – ISBN 0977597806
This a luxurious documentation of the project “Intimate Transactions”, a complex interactive installation by the Transmute Collective →
CD – Low Impedance
Alex Retsis and George Aggelides are back with the moniker Qebo, after a long hiatus, and in their second album, named ‘Wroln’, the tangled digital structures become even thicker, →
Stationsraum für assimilativen Zahlwitz is an audio installation made by Thom Kubli (supported by the Academy of Media Arts in Köln). Ten jelly cubes are placed in a room symmetrically with →
CD + DVD – Creative Space
Very abstract and glitchy electronica, soundscapes resulting from a measured mix of digital and acoustic elements (the latter aren’t sampled, but played ad-hoc for every single track). →
CD – Non Visual Objects
Ethereal atmospheres lightly veined with ‘jazzy’ attitudes with a noir penchant but very conceptual in the abstract electronic sequences. The sound design of this duo melts Ignaz Schick’s →
CD – 12 K
Rarefied and abstract digital soundscapes, acoustic iterations (‘Broken Guitar’, ‘Discarded Violin’) and bleeps come to us from David Newman, aka Autistici, for the 12K label directed by Taylor Deupree. →
CD – Non Visual Objects
Sampling field recordings using the hum (the noise produced by the difference of potential between electronic devices connected together) as a base is truly unusual. The interference is →
Icon Watch
Pricey interface-like watch
(tags: software)
CD – Underscan
This is an interesting compilation by Underscan Recordings, a Berlinese label founded by the productive Ralph Pytlik and Markward Wagner, and it’s the first release of the ‘Now’ series that →
CD – Cock Rock Disco
The artistic trajectory of Jason Forrest, aka DJ Donna Summer, is evolving towards more and more radical ways. He’s one of the gods of plagiarist breakcore, →
