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.
If we watched with the suspicious eye of the modern spectator a film like ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, we would be right thinking to the huge amount of money spent by the New York jewelry to →
The potentially infinite work Camera Obscura 2005/1-Inf by Przemek Zajfert & Burkhard Walther is based on the sharing of a Pinhole Camera, equipped with a double stenopeic hole, and able to get on a →
The MIT Press – ISBN 0262101106
The old Ludology vs. Narratology antithesis in the game studies field hides the fact that they are two different points of reference (represented by the rules and the →
CD – Expanding Records
This is the debut for the Australians Dave Miller and Harry Hohnen, a very refined collaboration, a perfect mix of melancholic and charming sample sequences and more →
The potentially infinite work Camera Obscura 2005/1-Inf by Przemek Zajfert & Burkhard Walther is based on the sharing of a Pinhole Camera, equipped with a double stenopeic hole, and able to get on a →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262101106
The old Ludology vs. Narratology antithesis in the game studies field hides the fact that they are two different points of reference (represented by the rules and the storytelling) →
It’s impossible to resist to some old sound boxes charm: in the end there are sentimental reasons. The more the market displays the last shop window’s shining device (boxed and with the obscure instructions →
It’s impossible to resist to some old sound boxes charm: in the end there are sentimental reasons. The more the market displays the last shop window’s shining device (boxed and with the obscure instructions for a →
Amongst the thousands blogs that one can bump into while surfing the net, sometimes it happens that one attracts a vast public attention, that later is then able to define a specific trend. This →
The spanish group Santofile lugs the meme concept in the discourse about the creative potential of digital technologies, being in favor of the content and public sources appropriation. The meme is the cultural factor →
The spanish group Santofile lugs the meme concept in the discourse about the creative potential of digital technologies, being in favor of the content and public sources appropriation. The meme is the cultural factor that →
Amongst the thousands blogs that one can bump into while surfing the net, sometimes it happens that one attracts a vast public attention, that later is then able to define a specific trend. This is, for →
Every room has a story, every place has an emotional nature, that could be partially derived, but most of all explored and changed. This is the founding principle of theCrystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture →
TMA Hellerau, DS-X.org, TMA001, ISBN 3981024702
The elbows of sound and visual artists (typically as a couple) are closer and closer and the symbiotic dialogue that begin sometimes produces excellent results. This collection of →
