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Travis

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About Me

consilient constructor contrabanded dandelion symmetry fluid forces representations of brownian motion pattern neo-dada-tribalism mystics shamans of apocalypse utopian dystopian dialectics chaostrophy entropic rhizomatic model construction representations of vernacular sterility kale

My Interests

syrups, anatomical analogies, echo, grids, reflective reflexes, detritus, connoisseurship, methodological mythologies, grammatical contempt, dialectics, rf wave modulation, needlepoints, resonant recognition, unifying theories of knowledge, purity, abstract cartography, transcendentalist metaphor, reduction, restraint, recombination

I'd like to meet:

a inexplicably mystical softness a cosmicizing magnetic pull pure conviction prophetic justifiers olfactoral allure

Music:

pulse programming, growing, merzbow, delia derbyshire, black dice, soft circle, sir richard bishop, sun city girls, alog, phonophanni, lars-gunnar bodin, pauline oliveros, bastard noise, aki tsuyuko, john cage, phillip glass, steve reich, john zorn, gasp, nobukazu takemura, men's recovery project, rah bras, sedan, upsilon acrux, seceret mommy, octis, oval, hospital, the plasmodian world of cantaloupe & bolles, sinking body, discordance axis, sun ra, the fall, the lonesome organist, caroliner rainbow, volume eleven, bruce haack, can, yes, gong, tangerine dream, cluster, indian summer, landed, nautical almanac, tarauntula hawk, venetian snares, mindflayer, ornette coleman, albert ayler, grails, mother mallard, pierre boulez, morton subotnik, vincent gallo, acid mothers temple, terry riley, eric dolphy, flying saucer attack, faust, luciano cilio, soft machine, tristeza, kites

Movies:

temporally aliasing movements, representations of non-dimensional reverberations, aluminum foil wall reflections; jean-luc goddard, francois truffaut, vera chytilova, slava tsukerman, jon moritsugu, alejandro jodorowsky, craig baldwin, paul sharits, len lye, jan svankmajer, michelangelo anontioni, most post-apocalyptic futures

Television:

fuck

Books:

pre-1970's anatomical handbooks, diagrammatic discharge, diy handbound glory, non-rectangles, op art, fluxus, the return to cosmology, consilience, godel escher bach: eternal golden braid, how we became posthuman, atlas of emotions, numbers: the language of science, the truth in painting, matter and memory, 1,000 years of non-linear history, black spring, the soft machine, t.a.z.: temporary autonomous zones ontological anarchy poetic terrorism

Heroes:

isidore isou, albert camus, jacque derrida, lars-gunnar bodin, art povera, n. kathryn hayles, guy debord, don buchla, franklin williams, edward o. wilson, douglas hofstadter, professor cantaloupe, alfred jensen, craig baldwin, bruce connor, shea zeleweger, wallace berman, manuel de landa, henri bergson, henry miller, morton subotnik

My Blog

Brain Fixed Knowledge Junkies

Thirst for knowledge' may be opium cravingThe brain's reward for getting a concept is a shot of natural opiates Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new co...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:07:00 PST

Close-Persona Book Proposal: Psychogeography of Simulated Epilepsy

My psyche is a hybrid of sterile scientific objectivity and juicy emotive organicism, undulating within an electrified matrix of tumultuous chemical catalysts and turgid atomistic perspectives. The di...
Posted by Travis on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:58:00 PST

Cultural production of a generational perspective [or what is to be known of a painting]

The contemporary state of cultural production has become stagnant, strangled and made impotent by the subjective quasi-conclusive spectacle of the parties involved. Art, the definitive explanation bei...
Posted by Travis on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:52:00 PST

Painting. Specifically. (work in progress)

The predominate communicative visual form in the plastic arts is painting. Its tradition culturally transcends the relatively naïve and underdeveloped forms of visual-experiential-conceptual communica...
Posted by Travis on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:48:00 PST

Notations to Image Launderings (Artist Statement)

These intrapsychic constellations exemplify an aesthetic style informed by an analytic awareness of temporal layering, linguistic possibility, and metonymic symbolism. Yet they utilize this awareness ...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Promethean Diatribes of a Quasi-Transmundane Archeologist

Specters of the Spectrum is a meticulously constructed cinematic macramé disjunction; coarsely filtered by an analytical pedagogue towards the fetishistic employment of stockpiled archival documentati...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Kaleidoscope Tyranny and Phantasmagoria: Craig Baldwins Specters of the Spectrum (by me)

It is the year 2007, and the Earth is a spasmodic, blighted dilapidation, seared under crevices torn into irradiated remains of the atmosphere. Fauna and flora have been exploited to almost extinction...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Memetic Engineering

Coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his controversial book The Selfish GeneK (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), the 'meme' is the study of ideas, behaviours, and skills which replicate and ...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Definition: Manifold

A manifold is defined as a topological space with fundamental characteristics common to a sphere. Each point is therefore homeomorphic to that of a sphere -- meaning that each point in use and functio...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Definition: Genealogy

A genealogy establishes identity by providing an inventory of historical links in the form of resemblances between that which is unique and that which is general. In terms of the archeology of human t...
Posted by Travis on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST