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 – Touch/Family Affair
This is the first solo album for Kazuyuki Kishino, who used to release his works under the same moniker with Chris Watson and z’ev in 2005. Other albums →
Spamland is the series of movies produced by the The Brothers McLeod using as scripts ‘inauthentic text’ used in spam messages. Inauthentic text is a generated grammatically-correct nonsense that spammers use on top of →
CD – Absinth
A trio made up by Magda Mayas (piano and synthesizer) with Sabine Vogel (flute and electronic instruments) and Michael Renkel (guitar and electronics) is behind the extended recording (recorded at →
NIME 2007
International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression
(tags: art mobile music sound)
Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems
Eavesdropping is never perfect
(tags: hacking hacktivism)
Cut Chemist (aka Lucas MacFadden) is one of the most sophisticated solo turntablist. It’s not by accident that his first full-length album, labeled Warner and including a Apple iPod nano advertisement recently featured →
Good Copy Bad Copy
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
(tags: copyright music hacktivism video)
Pruned: Super-Versailles
Living with screens
(tags: video tv visual)
Etsy :: HTML HEAD Sterling Silver Earrings
Conceptual earrings
(tags: net art)
Democracy: Internet TV
The free and open source Internet tv platform
(tags: hacktivism video tv)
Is ‘blog’ the new ‘bubble’, ready to blow out? According to the metaphor used in ‘Blogged’, an interactive installation by Bill Shackelford the answer is: yes. This piece of ‘web 2.0 art’ consists of →
2CD – Hymen
Hymen Records, a sublabel of the seminal Ant-Zen, has again released a record by Hecq (also known as Benny Boysen), a mature artist who composed four albums in just five →
Interactive paper sounds exciting -New Scientist Tech
touch sensitive (and reacting) paper
(tags: media)
Harvard University Press – ISBN 0674025199
After remixing ‘The Capital’ with genuine hacker culture (in the ‘A Hacker Manifesto‘), McKenzie Wark felt the urge to shift to another hotbed for the current →
CD – Hefty
Delicate experiments by Hirohito Ihara, the Japanese composer who founded Radicalfashion (maybe inspired by the exhibition bearing the same name, curated by David Toop at the Victoria and Albert →
Xerox adds clever anti-counterfeit measures to standard colour printers – gizmag
technology vs. crime vs. technology
(tags: media hacking)
$7500 buys a surfer’s life | The Australian
Sell your life on Ebay for charity
(tags: media art hacking)
CD – Satamile
This is Silicon Scally’s (aka Carl Finlow) second album which, after ‘Dark Matter’, articulates again effective electro sequences marrying the traditional sounds of this music genre in more refined and →
