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.
CD + DVD – Own Records
Shreds of skin, landscapes and contrasts, fluctuating words, sweet lullabies, then fleeting shadows, familiar abstractions and novels: an aestheticization of everyday things that follows many forms →
Rothko Generator
Simulating Rothko style, adapting pictures taken from the net
(tags: art software net media visual)
Despite the popular feelings, life in itself is a non-linear path. We are used to think about life as a permanent sequence of hours, days and years following each other. While, if we look →
CD – Cronica
Very delicate drones, fluctuating atmospheres, rarefied ambient scores and glitches, fragments of a literary universe (Proust’s, in his ‘Récherche’, several times cited as the main source of inspiration →
CD + Book – Transacustic Research
This project began as a very simple idea. Elffriede, a visual artists collective from Vienna, invited 34 musicians, from all over the world, to compose 34 →
CD – Feld
The result of the collaboration of Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Vitor Joaquim, three extreme digital experimenters, the ideal setup for creative improvisations, the different experiences of →
wiiwiiwiiwii
Another thesis project about wii as a music intrument
(tags: art music sound media software)
DVD – Lsc
Otto video, dodici tracce audio e quaranta differenti combinazioni percorse da trame pittoriche ed intrecci sonori digitali (di matrice experimental e drone music), strutturati in loop e sequenze visive ben controllate, in una iterata, ipnotica, fitta relazione. →
Interception is a performance of pure ‘urban hacktivism’, held in Poland by Roch Forowicz, an artist from Warsaw very focused on the experimentations involving video technologies with respect to surveillance and violation of privacy. →
CD – Amorfon
This ‘Bourgeois Magnetic’ is really a wonderful album, full of sensitive, crystal-clear, suspended and ethereal piano acrobatics. It was recorded in 1981 and published by Cantil Records, a label →
CD – Extreme
Improvisational atmospheric sequences, abstract and sensual, meticulously articulated by Luca Formentini, an experimenter and ‘erudite’ guitarist from Brescia, releasing for the Australian label Extreme. With guests such as Markus →
CD & Booklet – Sonic Arts Network
Eclectic and really unusual, these selections by the actor Steward Lee stray (very) far from the current trends of experimental electronica, creating delicate and →
The so called ‘game culture’ is becoming a vast cultural territory that from its pop influences to the academic ‘videogame studies’ it has spread the attention on the videogame culture all over. Game →
CD – Low Impedance
Silent architectures, barren urban landscapes, empty and corrupted spaces, a general dystopic vision of the future of our cities seems to pervade the inspired ‘Zeropolis’ project, made →
