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.
. Art 
12:10:01 Servecity.
At the historic center of Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, today and tomorrow will take place on the international symposium ' Servecity, living and working →
. Art 
12:10:01 CTRL [SPACE].
It opens today at the ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe, Germany, CTRL [SPACE] , an exhibition of works and →
. Art 
12:10:01 TGarden.
In Werkstad weekend at Las Palmas in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will be inaugurated the installation TGarden artists foam and sponge. It consists of an →
. Art 
11:10:01 Performance of the SPC at 19:00.
Exactly one month after the disaster at the World Trade Center at 19:00 Italian time the New York →
. Art 
10/11/01 Festival of New Cinema and New Media.
Inaugurated today at the Media Lounge of the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media with →
. Art 
11:10:01 Extrasensory.
It starts today and will last a week 's Extrasensory Festival in London, which will present events of sound art that uses light →
. Art 
11:10:01 DCX. Your World in My Tears.
Today at C3 Gallery in Budapest is presented DCX. Your World in My Tears , a video installation →
. Art 
11:10:01 Tirana Biennial in New York.
Backed by Milton Manetas and Electronic Orphanage lands in New York Tirana Biennale with its large body of works →
. Art 
10:10:01 Id / entity.
Today at the MIT Media Lab in Boston will host a seminar titled Id / entity who will try to analyze →
. Art 
10/10/01 World Wide Video Festival.
Inaugurated today in Amsterdam, the 19th edition of the World Wide Video Festival , an international festival of media art. →
