Newsletter 69
Hello everyone and welcome to Newsletter #69!!!
This one marks our 3rd anniversary. Itâs a bit surreal to realise weâve been doing this for that long, especially as a group of four volunteers, alongside organising meetups, workshops, and events, and trying to keep our own practices going as well.
Over that time, itâs been good to see the new media / digital / electronic art scene continue to develop across Ireland, and to have some part in connecting people through it.
What started as a fairly simple idea has gradually grown into a network of artists sharing work, testing things out, showing up to events, and occasionally collaborating. That side of it has probably been the most meaningful for us.
Thanks to everyone who has come to something, sent work, performed, presented, or just read these newsletters over the past three years.
Weâre planning to keep it going.
As always, we hope you enjoy this edition. Feel free to get in touch with feedback, ideas, or anything else at [email protected]
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Two recent pieces from Neural that stuck out to us this month, both circling different forms of machine and ecological mediation:
A Needle in a Haystack, superhuman machines
A project by Varvara & Mar that uses an industrial robot and AI to perform a kind of exaggerated metaphor, scanning a literal haystack to find a needle. It plays with the idea of âsuperhumanâ machine capability, but redirects it away from efficiency and toward something more symbolic, folding in ecological concerns and the gap between technological ambition and real-world complexity.
Coral Sonic Resilience, symbiotic mediation
Marco Barottiâs underwater installation uses sculptural habitats and embedded speakers to broadcast the sound of healthy reefs into damaged ecosystems, encouraging marine life to return. It sits somewhere between artwork and intervention, using sound as a tool for ecological repair and proposing a kind of cross-species communication through artificial soundscapes.
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