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.
2CD – Xi
Extremely dilated drones, sounds obtained by modulating bagpipes in suggestive tonal harmonies, warm, tangled in the melancholic spires of the serial envelopes, often crossed by inscrutable side variations. It’s →
Blip Festival 2007
The Tank + 8bitpeoples presents a 4-day modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world.
(tags: music videogame sound preservation)
Reflections on artificial life are mostly centered around the dogma of digital representation: only what can be represented on a screen can be tackled and understood. This kind of approach clashes with all →
CD – Potomak
Einstuerzende Neubauten are still capable of subverting every role, every musical certainty, putting nostalgies and ancient generational stereotypes aside, with renewed blood, involving their fans in a system of →
Gordan Savicic’s project Costraint City – The Pain of Everyday life, exploits in a brilliant way the electromagnetic waves generated by the wireless networks spread all over the urban territory, mapping them out →
CD – Relish/Family Affair
Early this year, we had already discovered the first recordings by Jasper Uhl and Robin Van Der Kaa, aka David Gilmour Girls, included in the selections of →
Marcin Ramocki, a Polish artist who’s also a director of documentaries and independent curator, since his first experiments has focused his research on the construction of metaphors by using the most diverse software →
@C & Vitor Joaquim – Lissabon – Feld
Steve Peters – Abrasions – Sirr
Gene Bowen – Desert’s Edge – Amorfon
Uusitalo – Sikojen Juhla – Huume/Audioglobe
Annea Lockwood – →
The MIT Press – ISBN 978-0262182621
Casey Reas is one of the few digital artists that are both technically and theoretically talented. In the media space his works of art are more →
This isn’t a simple mix collection. Under the ‘Minimalismo Italiano’ brand there’s a laboratory of ideas, a music and aesthetic project bprn to encourage new artistic expressions. It took shape in →
DVD – Errant Bodies
These two projects by CM Von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad, an electronic music maker specialized in field recordings and drone music and a creative filmmaker specialized in →
Shift, festival of Electronic Arts has started on 25 of October in Basel, in the Dreispitz industrial area. The theme is ‘Access’, that has many facets in the digital realm. The exhibition is hosting →
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)
