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 – Geometrik
With the Nad Spiro moniker, Rosa Arruti experiments with electronic concatenations, drones and hypnotic melodies, full of click’n’glitch elements. Subdued ambient atmospheres in the space airs and the sound-design →
debalie: media : Recalling RFID
A two-day public program on RFID and things to come
(tags: hacktivism media mobile)
There are only a few events (in the range of thousands of participants) completely self-organized and self funded that can boast a decade of yearly editions, all very well attended and never in the →
George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house| News | This is London
Within 200 yards of Orwell former residence – flat number 27B there are 32 CCTV cameras.
(tags: hacktivism video)
book – Openmute – ISBN 0955066476
Identifying the ‘new’ in economical and social evolution has been a necessity for the capital since it reached a global status. Then after expanding intrinsically into a networked environment the →
CD – Pogus
Aboriginal didgeridoos, ‘conch shells’ (shells belonging to Hindu musical tradition, often played during religious ceremonies), ‘waterphones’ (water instruments, used in ambient music and derived from Tibetan musical instruments), →
The cultural mediation applied by the web to a territory representation is often conveyed by Google Maps, unfortunately the proprietary de facto standard for urban mapping. But even within its software constraints, many →
Andrey Kiritchenko – – Mort Aux Vaches – Staalplaat
Luc
Ferrari – Rencontres Fortuites – Sub Rosa
KTL2 – Abattoir
– Editions Mego
Mathias
Delplanque – Anti-Reflet – Low Impedance
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IN[ ]EX
a distributed audio sculpture in which thousands of wooden blocks with embedded technology are released into the city to engage the public as active agents
(tags: art media music sound)
Out of Bounds – Chris O’Shea
Use the light as a revealing medium
(tags: art media visual video)
DVD – Projectsinge / Lowave
Audiovisual iterations by the Projectsinge collective (Jeanfrancois Blanquet, Florent Roussel, Jerome Blanquet) generated in sophisticated random ways, using the DVD medium very creatively, exploiting some of its technical possibilities, with →
CD – Hefty! / Audioglobe
Cuts and frequencies by Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono, also known as Retina.it, a combo with original technoid roots (in the notorious Neapolitan scenes and, for some time, together →
book – Dartmouth College Press – ISBN 1584655585
The digitalization process of an information /form / entity means its disembodiment. An entire generation of thinkers has grown up from early nineties taking →
Book + CD – Errant Bodies
An unstoppable attraction for extreme sounds, in line with the passions that emerged from the international underground at the end of the Seventies, carried John Duncan →
