19 Dec 2008

Neural 15th anniversary, issue 31 and joint action with S.W.A.M.P.

Neural magazine celebrates 15 years of publishing with issue 31 and joining S.W.A.M.P. group (Doug Easterly and Matt Kenyon) for a collective micro printing action.

Subscribers will receive a numbered and limited edition of a S.W.A.M.P.'s Notepad sheet of paper with an envelope. It looks like an everyday yellow legal paper, but each line is constructed of micro-printed text and contains the personal details of Iraqi civilian casualties.

Subscribers are triggered to write a letter or memo or draw a picture on it and send it to the White House, then signing up for a free replacement sheet on the S.W.A.M.P. website, if they want. Once in circulation each sheet then acts as a Trojan horse slipping the unwanted and unacknowledged civilian body count data into official governmental archives.

This is a joint action that proves how paper and pixel together can make the difference.


Issue 31, winter 2008

new.media.art

. S.W.A.M.P. interview,
. Mediengruppe Bitnik interview,
. ISEA 2008, Singapore, report
. Ars Electronica 2008, report
. news (Smiles Less Noise, Taiwa Hensokuki, Machines that Almost Fall Over, AEO, Motion Extraction Reanimation Series)
. reviews (Bodies in Code, HMKV 1996 2008, Darko Fritz Archives in Progress, Holy Fire, Software Studies: A Lexicon)
. centerfold: Fulgurator with Barack Obama by Julius Von Bismarck

e.music

. Negativland interview,
. Memories of the Future, New Forms of Cultural Production,
. The Hype Machine, p2p blogging
. news: Graphite Sequencer, Wind-up Birds, Sun Run Sun, Fold Loud, Physical Sequencer
. reviews: Anthibotis - Occultural Anthology vol. 2, curated by Vicky Bennett - Smiling Through My Teeth, Dj Spooky - Sound Unbound, M. Schumacher - Five Sound Installations, Filmachine
. reviews cd: Ryoji Ikeda, Andrea Polli and Joe Gilmore, Janek Schaefer, Alva Noto, COH aka Ivan Pavlov and Cosey Fanni Tutti, at c, Bj Nielsen and Stilluppsteypa, Helmut Schafer and Zbigniew Karkowski, Black to Comm, Brandon LaBelle, Jos Smolders, Berlin Electronics, Kenneth Gaburo, Simon Wickham-Smith, Critikal, Frank Rothkamm, Silvia Fassler and Billy Roisz, Michael Santos, Martin Neukom, Josh Russell

hacktivism

. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum interview,
. Free Passwords: The Bumpy Guide to Porn Sharing,
. Shopdropping, violating the consumer temples,
. news Cyberskin, Double-Taker Snout, Real Snail Mail, Goldenbergian Voting Machine, Tantalum Memorial.
. reviews: Public Netbase: non stop future, Setun, The Exploit, a theory of Networks, Feedback, Television against Democracy, Digital Media and Democracy