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.
OSCulator is a new powerful interface engine (unfortunately not open) which allows you to connect and control different multimedia devices, remaining at the same time flexible and easy. This software uses, as the name →
CD – Some Bizzare/Audioglobe
This is a reprint of the historical second album by Test Dept, an original combo from London which has been active since the very early →
CD+DVD – The Social Registry
This ‘Retina Riddim’ is fundamentally a film-project cut from old footage of Gang Gang Dance, a group that would have once been defined ‘art group’ for →
CD – Staalplaat
Sound layers, underlined by an equivalent sum of transparent surfaces in the beautiful artwork by CS, in this limited edition (as it’s traditional for the ‘Mort Aux Vaches’ →
CD – AGF Producktions
Those new urban sounds, which are more and more imbued with digital moods, come together perfectly in this new album by the electronica producer AGF and mc Quio. Their music →
Morbid Soundfields From Iraq
The real soundtrack of a senseless war
(tags: sound hacktivism media)
Playonplaid
electronic live concerts made during one day only through solar energy.
(tags: hacktivism sound music)
IBM Union strike on Second Life
(tags: hacktivism net visual)
knotenpunkte | nodes 2007
net art in different networked institutions
(tags: art net media)
FACELESS | ambientTV.NET
cctv filmakers
(tags: art hacktivism visual tv media)
CD – Sub Rosa / Audioglobe
The ‘lamentation’ was a musical and literary genre, Guy Marc Hinant of Sub Rosa reminds us, very popular in Europe between the fourteenth and sixteenth century (as →
The World’s slowest Instant Messenger is last work of the Near Future Lab, mainly a two-persons team (Nicolas Nova e Julian Bleecker) which researches, designs and implements technologies directly connected to social pracatices →
After a series of topics either trying to predict the future or to be omni-comprehensive, the 2007 edition of Ars Electronica focuses on something that everybody should feel as a urge, while →
Open Source is a philosophy more that a revolutionary methodology for producing software. This concept seem to be embraced in Still Open a series of forums and workshops organized by ANAT (Australian →
On 8 September at the Exit07 venue, in Luxembourg, will take place the Neural Night, with live acts by Mouse on Mars, Vitor Joaquim and Jaurelio. The event is part of ‘Musiques Actuelles’ →
CD – Raster Noton
Rhythm is always essential in its intrinsic conception. It’s what you add to it (or don’t) that makes the difference, and this is made all the more true →
CD – Very Friendly
Merzbow’s huge discography grows even more. He’s an exceptionally prolific experimenter, emotional in his approach to sound, compressed in a continuum of dissonant, metallic and chaotic frequencies. Its compositions are, →
