Neural Issue 26, winter 2006

http://www.neural.it

new media art
.Rafael Lozano Hemmer interview.
.Golan Levin interview.
.Exonemo interview.
.Always On, new augmented space and its memory.
.news: Academy, one minute blockbusters, The Familiar Stranger Project, Bion, man-machine artificial relationship, Media Mirror, reflecting the world in a tv mosaic, Spam Plants + Spam Architecture, visualizing the spam rhythm.
.reviews:
..books/dvd/cd-rom: A.R.Galloway – Gaming, B.Wegenstein – Getting Under The Skin, Reline 2, Aspect vol.7, O. Goriounova – Readme 100, J.Krysa – Data Browser 03, U.Frohne + M.Schieren + J.F. Guiton – Present, Continuous Past(s), M.Kuzmanovic + Nadine + A. Maes + Y. Bernard – x-med-a., Show-n-tell – webAffairs.

emusic
.John Oswald interview.
.Geir Jenssen/Biosphere interview.
.Brian Mackern interview.
.news: Distant Views/Culture Catchers, actrivated audio from distant places, Paper Record Player, a folded and functioning turntable, Yesnation, visualizing the map of U.S. radio tunes, DJ Artyom, the cassette Dj, Tactical Sound Garden, cultivating sounds in gardens.
.reviews:
..books/dvd/cd+: Extrapool – Audiotoop, Rolf and Fonky + Scott Pagano – To Care, I.Palacky + Vj V.Lukasova aka Carpet Curtains, KNBSC505 – Noise Driven Ambient Audio and Visuals, J.Wada – Music Dances Itself, W.Dorninger – Nasca, on perspectives, T.Masakatsu – Journal for People.
.cd reviews: Rafael Toral, Stephan Mathieu + Janek Schaefer, Taylor Deupree, Yannis Kyriakides, Matt Rogalsky, Gabriel Paiuk + Jason Kahn, Kira Kira, Tim Exile, Anla Courtis, Vitor Joaquim, Montreal Sound Matter, Jacob Kirkegaard, Robert Hampson + Steven Hess, Horkeskart, Orla Wren, Bong Ra, Antonio della Marina, Urkuma, Ether, The Sleeping Moustache.

hacktivism
.Heath Bunting interview
.Rick Silva interview
.Bare Life innovation
.news: The Sheep Market, the crowdsourcing exploitation, TrackMeNot, beating search engines with fake tracks, Reject Me, State Scrounging as Means of Production, Dark Source, exposing democracy owners, Crucifix NG, tech-enhanced faith.
.reviews:
..books/dvd/cd+:Y.Benkler – The Wealth of Networks, E.Halter – From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games, J.Leandre – Archivos Babilonia, The War Room, R.F.Jorgensen – Human Rights in the Global Information Society, W.H.K.Chun – Control ans Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics.