in8 iD = posthumun artist whose work spans + often collages diverse mediums + hybrid forms, from txt/img to the confluence of music + noize. As founding publisher of Calamari Archive, its target medium has been the book object + most of the writing + visual art/design it has done over the past 20+ years has been to this end, including its own books + albums.
in8 iD’s punk/DiY ethos was seeded by the ‘80s home-recording + cassette culture on which it cut its teeth, starting its own label (Tapestry Tapes) + releasing 3 of its own cassettes (re-released as the unheard tapes). Initial academic studies focused on music (particularly Indonesian—it played in a gamelan orchestra for 2 years) + sound engineering, then biology + it eventually took degrees in computational mathematics + then did its graduate work in physics + philosophy. In tandem it always aspired to be a literary writer so worked as a coder + then technical writer to bridge its interests + experience (+ pay the bills). This led it to eventually work in web production + information architecture, the field of which also summarizes its personal artistic ambitions—the economical + entropic efficiency of densely packing as much information onto a blank canvas, tape or page (web or print) is its primary concern, often at the expense of aesthetics.
Given its technical background in math, science + engineering, in8 iD can amalgamate + communicate complex subject matter ... when it needs to. If it had its druthers tho—in its own art—it’d rather let free association + stream of sub-consciousness dictate the course. Readability + "making sense" (or ¢ents) is not as interesting to it as the unintended epiphanies that may arise from random chaos, or "randumb K-OS" as it might be "inklined" to call it. Ménière's "d-zzz" + clanging disorder inevitably influenzes its landgauge + music output + the natural "DK" process is also vital to its 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 it’s not above retooling digital technologies to skeuomorph retro analog FX + are schooled in Edward Tufte’s theories of information design + data visualizations.
iD'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. it has worked as a deckhand on a ship crossing 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. its love of hiking + climbing + the outdoors led it to work as a field geologist in the 1st few years out of college. This bipedal zeal naturally evolved into flâneuring once it took to living in cities, systematically walking every street of Manhattan w/ its "bedder-½" in their time spent in NYC + then they did the same in Rome, DC + Bologna, documenting their walks as they went (Maphattan Project, RomeRioni, Microcosmic DC + Perambulating the Porticos respectively). it is also an avid runner + life-long journal keeper, obsessively chronicling its entire life on 5cense.com. Since 2008, in8 iD has renounced all social media + its work has been anonymous/pseudonymous + uncopyrighted + its whereabouts are typically at large. [collapse bio]
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