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.
The 'fake website' is a kind of net art established, which provides for the creation of a site, accompanied by appropriate domain, such as to mislead the users as possible by the professionalism of →
dvd video – I.M.C.C. / Metropolis Records
‘Making the revolution sexy’ is the catching slogan that David Trussell, songwriter from Melbourne, has followed for twenty years with his band, the Snog, a unique example of →
book – Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ISBN 3883758914
The exceptional imagination of Carsten Nicolai has gained much popularity in the contemporary art world, which clearly interpreted the codes used by the artist for →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262633159
Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst have represented in eighties and nineties a brilliant and controversial project, a visible jump in the future with no shield, →
dvd – C0C0S0L1DC1T1
Serial projects, those where an information travels from person to person and is progressively modified until it reaches its final state, or a documentation of this transformation process, are the domain of →
book – Actar – ISBN 8495951134
In its double role as ‘genre’ and ‘tool’, electronic music has pervaded the music culture for the last fifteen years. Fulfilling the ambitions to work ‘directly’ on the →
The ability of electronic media to make any image ‘temporary’ through its digital visualization follows the temporarity of today’s informations and the shift from the stability of printed media to the transient disembodied light →
Propose an ironic vision of a past that little bit of fashion is one of the opportunities of computer games which have the undoubted ability to recreate historical systems through simulation that brings back what →
The process of musical composition in software mode, capable of organizing in sequencing information to be reproduced, is also being developed through the evolution of the interface (software and hardware) that significantly changes the →
The sampling can also be understood as a memory retrieval, and hip hop has undoubtedly had the merit of having used it extensively to revive unacknowledged records found on vinyl on duty, putting →
The best day to launch this project was undoubtedly September 11th. The fake institutional tears flowed for the lukewarm memory commemorated a human disaster with a careful selection of morbid images, made to sow the same →
There was no better day of the commemoration of September 11 for the global launch a similar project. The institutional fake tears, the warm memory of a human catastrophe is celebrated through a careful selection →
The (uncertain) non-linearity of the information, culturally assodate from the concept of ‘link’, is slowly but irreversibly changing Western culture, transforming our enjoyment reassuring ‘start to finish’ in a path that is defined as ‘in →
The Mouse on Mars are in their own way a ‘kind’ of contemporary electronic music, through which raw and assonant sound collage, surrounded by syncopated rhythm changes and insertions without burrs stuck to the rest →
