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.
Neural 77, Reorientations co-edited with Morten Søndergaard + extra: the artist’s postcard “here:this place, a listening exercise” by Jana Winderen. Subscribe now!
Issue #76, 2025 ISSN: 2037-108X
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CD – 901 Editions
Vittorio Guindani, whose CV includes collaborations with various contemporary dance companies and artists working in many different areas, released his debut album Jisei on 901 Editions in 2020. He returns once again on Fabio Perletta’s label →
Tehnički muzej Nikola Tesla, catalogue, ISBN 978-9536568895, English, 224 pages, 2022, Croatia
If ‘New Tendencies’ is the most famous historical movement of media art and culture that originated in Zagreb, then Croatia has a →
One of the essential qualities of Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman’s artworks is to unpack systems that we take for granted, unveiling their unsettling mechanisms. And they don’t just describe these mechanisms, but often embody them. This is the case →
CD – Kohlhaas
Alessandro Bosetti, a sound artist originally from Milan and currently based in Marseille, has built his research on an alchemy of fragments. Always fascinated by the metamorphosis of digital archives into musical scores, Bosetti weaves hidden correspondences →
University of Alabama Press, ISBN 978-0817321864, English, 194 pages, 2024, USA
Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the ‘control society’ is often cited to describe our technological condition of being tracked and recorded in all activities that →
Considered to be among the very first computational generative visual processes, cellular automata has historically represented a pioneering form of endless computer graphics featuring machine logic. As a long time artist engaging with the aesthetic of the ‘imaginaries of the →
CD – Persistence of Sound
Rubbish Music is a project that brings together two central figures in sound experimentation: Kate Carr, a sound artist specializing in field recording, and Iain Chamber, an academic active in the fields of anthropology, sociology →
Institute of Network Cultures, ISBN 978-9083328287, English, 155 pages, 2024, The Netherlands
There is a lively and vibrant underground scene around the world of people digitising publications and other analogue material, and sharing the files →
By surfing online or using digital entertainment services, we subject ourselves to a dense set of algorithms that propose content to us. Whether it’s the order in which we view the results of a search engine, the movies that are →
Jana Winderen artist’s postcard “here:this place, a listening exercise” contains a set of instructions to extend the perception of a place through a listening practice. The postcard has been part of her homonymous installation at the Momentum13 biennial in Moss →
Aksioma, ISBN 978-9617173314, English, 216 pages, 2022, Slovenia
The publishing project of the Slovenian institution Aksioma has produced a small permanent library of publications that expand the scope and momentum of their respective exhibitions and →
CD – Kohlhaas
When using a single instrument by pushing it to the limits of technical possibilities to generate pure sounds in a musical project, in this case, an electric guitar accompanied by sparse electronics and faint percussion, it can →
CD – Crónica
For the second release in the Textuur series, Jos Smolders questions the processes surrounding the contextual deprivation – or hijacking – of sounds, cutting them into small pieces and infusing them with an estrangement that modifies the →
CD – true blanking
A suite of over forty minutes is the outcome of this multimedia collaboration between Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjørgeengen. Rowe comes from a long line of free-form practitioners and is primarily an improvisational guitarist. Bjørgeengen is →
