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.
Ecology, Art, and Technology | Digital and Networked Environmental Art
Technological art and ecology.
(tags: art media video hacktivism)
Transmediale 2008 invited participants to “conspire” and, during the festival, the intrinsic potential of this call was extensively explored. One of these opportunities was undoubtedly offered by Jonah Brucker-Cohen with PleaseSpam.Us project. It is →
CD – Anti-Copyright
The releases which make up this seminal series are all dedicated to promoting experimental sounds created using free software. It’s a simple and very direct way to show how different →
thatsmymouse (Beta) Home
Share mouse paths and see what users do on your website.
(tags: hacking net)
Physical Interaction Lab – Wable
Identity through web use
(tags: media art net visual)
Magneto Boy: Science Videos – Science News – ScienCentral
Wasting electronic media with a fingertip.
(tags: science hacking preservation media)
CD – Cold Blue Music
With microtonal assonances reminiscent of the American minimalist tradition, Charlemagne Palestine excites us again with ‘A Sweet Quasimodo…’, playing on two different Yamaha pianos at the same →
Math on Display, Science News Online, Feb. 16, 2008
Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork
(tags: art media science visual)
CD – Dekorder
Extracted from Felix Kubin’s radio and theater projects, published by Dekorder, an eclectic label based in Hamburg at its 22nd release, for the first time these →
Art and science team up on a very tall city order
25-foot-high experimental microbial fuel cell sculpture by Jon Karafin
(tags: art science media)
Steven Poole: Trigger Happier
A historical book on videogame culture, freedownload
(tags: media video videogame)
book – Oxford University Press – ISBN 9780195189285
Collaboration is in the end what the web has literally revolutionized in its first fifteen years. The collective knowledge development has found, for →
CD – Nonvisualobjects
This is contemporary substance, even if the composing method is explicitly sported as a derivative one from the historical avant-gardes, relating to the aleatory techniques used by surrealists, usually →
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 →
