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Calamari Archive (press/label) The Daily Noose (blogject) Sound ƒuries (music project) travel photography + YouTube channel information architecture, production, design + journalism portfolio |
anon I'm us = a posthuman artist whose work spans + often collages diverse mediums + hybrid forms, from text/image to the confluence of music + noise. As founding publisher of Calamari Archive, our target medium has been the book object + most of the writing + visual art/design we have done over the past 15+ years has been to this end. In a professional “day job” capacity we have 10+ years of experience working in new media as web producer + information architect. a.I.’s punk/DiY ethos was seeded by the ‘80s home-recording + cassette culture on which we cut our teeth, starting our own label (Tapestry Tapes) + releasing 3 of our own cassettes (re-released as the unheard tapes). Initial academic studies focused on music (particularly Indonesian—we played in a gamelan orchestra for 2 years) + sound engineering, then biology + we eventually took degrees in computational mathematics + then did our graduate work in physics + philosophy. In tandem we always aspired to be a literary writer so worked as a coder + then technical writer to bridge our interests + experience (+ pay the bills). This led us to eventually work in web production + information architecture, the field of which also summarizes our personal artistic ambitions—the economical + entropic efficiency of densely packing as much information onto a blank canvas, tape or page (web or print) is our primary concern, often at the expense of aesthetics. Given our technical background in math, science + engineering, anon I'm us can amalgamate + communicate complex subject matter... when we need to. If we had our druthers tho—in our own art—we’d rather let free association + stream of sub-consciousness dictate the course. Readability + “making sense” (or ¢ents) is not as interesting to us as the unintended epiphanies that may arise from random chaos, or “randumb K-OS” as we might be “inklined” to call her. Ménière's "d-zzz" + clanging disorder inevitably influenzes our landgauge + muzic output + the natural decay (DK) process is also vital to our personal work—finding beauty in breakdown + ruin, choosing confusion over coherency, lo-fi rather than hi-brow, old school as opposed to newfangled flash, steampunk vs. air-brushed gloss, etc. But we’re not above retooling digital technologies to skeuomorph retro analog FX + are schooled in Edward Tufte’s theories of information design + data visualizations. a.I.’s "reel-whirled" experience derives from many years spent living in Mexico, Italy + Kenya + travelling extensively to all corners of the globe, often disappearing off the map for extended stretches. We've worked as a deckhand on a ship Xing the South Pacific, as a farmhand in New Zealand, doing research in solar physics in Arizona, as a cook in South Dakota, a carpenter in Patagonia, field documentarian throughout rural Africa + Asia, stunt double in a b-grade sci-film in France + as a geophysicist as far north as the Arctic Circle. Our love of hiking + climbing + the outdoors led us to work as a field geologist in the 1st few years out of college. This bipedal zeal naturally evolved into flâneuring once we took to living in cities, systematically walking every street of Manhattan w/ our “bedder-½” in our time spent in NYC + then we did the same in Rome, documenting our walks as we went (on maphattanproject.com + romerioni.com respectively). We’re also an avid runner + life-long journal keeper, obsessively chronicling our entire life on The Daily Noose blog (formerly known as 5cense). Since 2008, anon I'm us has renounced all social media + our work has been anonymous/ pseudonymous + uncopyrighted + our whereabouts are typically at large. [collapse bio] |
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MUSIC:
Starfisheye (1989) Whorl (1989) The Ethereal Aether (1988-89) tracks from 1987 tracks from 1986 tracks from 1984-85
Stamperia del Tevere, Rome (2012) Orto Capovolto, Rome (2012) Atelier, Rome (2011) Spazio Meme, Carpi, Italy (2010) & collected permanently Sztuka Fabryka, Belgium (2006) Vox Populi, Québec City (2006) suitcAse, Brooklyn (2005) Spidertangle, Miami (2005) Infinity: Harvard VisPo (2005) UNREADABILITY/Eyedrum (2005) Cover Letter, Baltimore (2004) I Foreign Eye, Cleveland (2004) Permanently collected in the Sackner Archive of Visual and Conrete Poetry EDITING, BOOK ART & DESIGN The Red Barn by Nat Baldwin The Luminol Reels by Laura Ellen Joyce Niceties by Elizabeth Mikesch The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield Sister Stop Breathing by Chiara Barzini Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity Divorcer by Gary Lutz Boons & The Camp by David Ohle Ever by Blake Butler The Hour Sets by Michael Boyko The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis (+ Italian tr. by Nutrimenti) The Nines by Christian Peet (Palm Press) The Night I Dropped Shakespeare on the Cat by John Olson Trilce by James Wagner Land of the Snow Men by Norman Lock TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY [by place]: INTERVIEWS: Artribune (in Italian) Spazio Meme (in Italian) Republicca XL (in Italian) Bookslut perspektive (in German) |
BOOKS:
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SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Best American Experimental Writing 2014 LIT no. 24 (print)
Faultline (summer 2010) Fourteen Hills LIT Hobart Word for/Word (art) Sidebrow (art) Denver
Quarterly 40.2 |
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