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 – 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 →
Cinemas use night goggles to nab pirates| Technology| Reuters
Trying to defend copyright by any means necessary
(tags: copyright hacktivism visual)
Japan’s latest mobile craze: novels delivered to your handset | Economist.com
Ebook that works
(tags: literature media mobile)
Venezuela’s counter-revolution won’t be televised… but it →
CD Gramophone player
Look and feel of players in different ages mixed up.
(tags: music)
The 337 Project
This fairly large scale work involved 144 graphiti artists adding their artistic interpretation to a soon-to-be-demolished building.
(tags: art media preservation)
The Market Function of Piracy – Mises →
The Simulation Argument
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
(tags: media hacking)
CD- !K7 Records
This is a very delicate selection of movie soundtracks commissioned to Matthew Herbert, who composed them casting aside his typical electronic approach, but keeping somewhat homogeneous musical traits. It’s one →
Yoshio Machida – Texas Vino – Amorfon
Johann Johannsson – Part 4/ibm 729 – 4AD
Kotra and Zavoloka – Out Of Nowhere – Kvitnu
Dimitri Voudouris – Praxis – Pogus
Keene – The River – Poeta →
RIAA (Robotic Intergalactic Astro-Artists)
A mashup tribute to the pioneers of electronic music
(tags: music mashup sound)
Vinyl Workout
Visual/physical projected record player. Made by Theodore Watson.
(tags: art music sound)
In the morning of 31 May 1997 (it was a saturday) the first Neural webpages were uploaded via ftp on a friend’s server. A simple ‘online update’ with some brief news and reviews was →
CD – Rephlex
Make no mistake, Andy Jenkinson does everything by himself, in his private studio, adding neo-acid flair and dissonant attitudes to crude devices. Home audio-abuse that jokingly celebrates Jean Michel Jarre (Rephlex →
Steve Beck – Paper TV
filtering photonic light from cathode-ray tube
(tags: art tv visual)
Pacemaker – The pocket-size DJ system
minimal djing
(tags: music)
Mediaterrae photo set
In Mediaterrae the smart idea of the behind the Interferenze festival was to bring a group of international electronic artists (visual artists and musicians) on the very peculiar Montemarano carnival, during →
Music Vortex, Water Speaker
A speaker that visualizes soundwaves through water, designed by Eric Zheng
(tags: music)
DriveTime
a weekly video blog produced during Ravi’s daily commute
(tags: art media video)
skyndo a series of free raw heavy digital computer music tracks
65 is the first episode of skyndo, a track composed by Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela from the seven →
Baby Grand Master – The King of Video Instruments
Video and sound mixer in the shape of a piano
(tags: music video)
History will repeat itself
Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance, Exhibition in Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund.
(tags: art media)
