“Facial [Re] Cognition, Excerpts from The Null Archive: Ways of Seeing/Ways of Becoming/A Personal History of Photography and Cinema in an Everyday Life,” is a small part of a larger durational performance that was started in 2017. It will manifest as a 10 year archive … More FACIAL [Re] COGNITION
e / Crit – s is an exhibition that asks the question, what does it mean to “inscribe” when technological mediation has inverted and encrypted contemporary language? What emerges is not a singular portrait of crisis, but a network of interpretations of memory, metaphor, and conjecture … More e/crit-s
The sonification metaphor is not limited to electronic sound synthesis and computer music, but can be applied to instrumental music as well. The relation of sonification to program and experimental music is discussed and works … More The Sonification Metaphor in Instrumental Music and Sonification’s Romantic Implications
This project grew from our desire to curate a group of sound and spoken word artists that engage with extra-musical and textual strategies in their work. We are encouraging the artists to create new ruptures within our critical and conceptual understanding of sound and language through the use of “imperfect metaphors.” … More Audio Interference: Heard in LA
When reading Norman Klein’s essays and books, we become flâneurs, meandering through his personal landscape, viewing the past through critical representations of the present. His work reads like a cartographic template … More The Vatican to Vegas by Norman M. Klein
In viralnet-v4.net’s 2020 Now|Swerve podcast, Carlin and I hosted a series of conversations with artists, writers, and academics that explored what we called “the swerve of 2020” in relation to the present—the “long now” and the “post-future” … More viralnet-v4.net’s “re-installment” of Now|Swerve
Sentient Space is a breathing, living space. The installation shows how space is alive and how sentience creates a bridge between things, especially with human beings. Spatial and human energy are multi-way communications … More Sentient Space – Taehee Kim
I wonder what we will be able to see of Echelon listening posts, black sites, and not-yet-known outposts of the increasingly diffused military apparatus after it moves on… … More An Interview with Chris Bassett on NIKE: Los Angeles Defense Area
The spark that ignited the idea for “self<not>self” was lit by Hirokazu Kosaka’s visiting artist lecture at CalArts in 2022. During that lecture, Hirokazu presented a collection of calligraphy brushes whose bristles were made from his son’s hair. The lecture prompted an “ah ha” moment for me, a sudden realization … More self<not>self
