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.
The new project by RECYCLISM ™ is hitting, as many media artists are doing yet, the prosperous muse of wireless technologies. 2.4Ghz™ exploits wireless netcams populating the urban space in a very simple but →
Transmediale 08 photo set
Transmediale festival 2008 edition brought a series of important innovations: a new artistic director, Stephen Kovats, taking over Andreas Broeckmann after a seven-year period; the coming back to the Haus →
Many festival emerged in the last decade, but only a bunch of them find their own way, focusing on some peculiar investigations during the years. Sonic Acts is undoubtedly one of them, →
Ushahidi.com – Timeline Of Events
A visualization of the spread of violence over the course of these painful few weeks in Kenya.
(tags: hacktivism visual software)
MAKE: Blog: ABSOLUT MACHINES – Amazing robotic, web connected ping-pong tossing musical instrument, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture
Kinetic sculptural fun including fine orchestration.
(tags: robot music sound)
Bent 2008 | The BENT Festival
Circuit Bending U.S. based festival
(tags: art hacking music sound)
YouTube – REMsuperserious’s Channel
REM posted eleven music video of theirs on YouTube, free to watch (and eventually download if you know how).
(tags: music video copyright)
Goolag
A web auditing tool that enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via →
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – More Bugs Stickers: First action shots
Sticker action to complain to Microsoft.
(tags: hacktivism media software)
Faith Fighter | Molleindustria
Religion war as a playful fight. Enjoy.
(tags: software hacktivism videogame)
Banksy Outdoors
Bansky beautiful and visionary interventions on the wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories.
(tags: hacktivism media visual)
Canon’s Iris Registration Mode – Biological Copyright Metadata : Photography Bay
Watermarking with your body data
(tags: copyright science hacktivism)
Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere
Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station
(tags: video hacking art)
Ohm Sweet Ohm: Outgoing Linux Australia president’s hot-wired home →
The popularity dialer
Fake a phone call easily and credibly!
(tags: hacking software media)
the future of music: credo
Perhaps the single most influential of Cage’s written texts, first delivered as a lecture in 1937
(tags: art music sound)
“Sounds” of individual molecules captured
Physicists recorded tiny vibrations of individual molecules and put them in audible form.
(tags: science sound)
Book – Eutopia 2007
Curated by the Zemos98 collective, ‘Repeat Please: Cultura VJ’, an exhibition included in the rich program of the Eutopia 2007 festival held in Cordoba, Spain, reflects a →
People are used to the sound of skin played by percussion instruments. Most of them consist of at least one membrane (skin) that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with →
