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.
. EMusic 
25.07.01 New CEO for Napster.
He resigned Hank Barry (pictured), CEO of Napster, and was replaced by Konrad Hilbers, a former executive of BMG that →
. EMusic 
25.07.01 Agreement MusicNet-Zomba.
MusicNet , the online payment service that has incorporated Napster and founded by BMG, Warner and EMI has also received the accession →
. EMusic 
25.07.01 The Public Enemy paying fans.
The Public Enemy call to rally fans and musicians. On their website there are tracks in style 'a cappella' →
. EMusic 
20:07:01 Loveparade 2001.
While in Genoa is manifested in Berlin dancing. Start tomorrow, a week behind schedule, the Loveparade 2001 that promises to gather a →
. EMusic 
19:07:01 Ogg Vorbis: Free audio such as email.
In a recent interview with Christopher Montgomery, head of the team that is developing Ogg Vorbis (audio →
. EMusic 
07/19/01 Karaoke in rent.
The Eatsleepmusic launched the Karaoke Jukebox Plus , the first Karaoke system for PC that allows you to 'rent' the stream →
. EMusic 
19:07:01 Loveweek broadcast from Berlin.
In the week leading to the Loveparade three of the most active clubs in Berlin (Tresor, Globus and WMF) organized →
. EMusic 
18:07:01 Files. Nap.
In the transformation from an instrument of free trade business platform 'safe', Napster has finally decided that its Protected files can not →
. EMusic 
18:07:01 The so-called anti-copy go into distortion.
The first audio CD that can not be copied from one computer products, according to the system SafeAudio →
. EMusic
17:07:01 Baby net.radio Bowie.
'Kick Out the Jammies' is the new radio channel dedicated to kids on the website bowie.net. The rockstar, now in its 50s, has created a channel →
