It seems like every time I turn around there’s a new “breakthrough” in graphene news. Don’t know what graphene is? Well, I’ve written about it before over at H+ magazine and R.U. asked me to write a follow up following the latest bit of news that IBM has built a complete circuit — a broadband […]
A Review of BODY-BASED PERFORMANCES INSPIRED BY MACHINES ANATOMY RIOT #42 In a ballroom-for-rent at downtown LA’s nostalgic Alexandria Hotel, Anatomy Riot #42 (brainchild of Show Box LA and Lauren McCarthy) debuted all new ‘machine-inspired’ performance art. The alleged 42nd installment’s premise being invisible computing and the future; ’how aging systems respond to the transposition […]
All modern tales of robots, automatons and other would-be humans trace a lineage to Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. This is a story of a tinkerer (named Victor Frankenstein) stitching together dead body parts, and then enlivening the assembly with galvanic charge (resulting in “the monster†pop culture mistakenly calls Frankenstein). It […]
I’m freezing I’m freezing I’m icicle blue so low low cool Cyber neurotic technicians imbue so low low cool I’ve been admitted to refrigerator heaven until they discover a cure for cancer I’m low Refrigerator heaven so low refrigerator heaven I’m ice packed I’m hand stashed I’m waiting for you I’m older and younger preserved […]
We are at a sad time in human history. We have lost one of our most vital forms of expression, music, and we are only now coming to grips with the realization. It is hard to tell exactly when music breathed its last gasp, but most experts pinpoint the time of death within the past […]
X-Men: First Class is primarily an exploration of mutant politics. There’s no right or wrong, because each mutant character has a detailed history that explains their views on mutant issues. The film gives a central place to the real life mutant youth ideal of “finding the others.” Many of the mutants in the film resemble […]
“People will say, “I feel like a woman trapped in a man’s body’… And I say, ‘I feel like I’m trapped in a body.’ ” While he’s best known as the musician who helped start both the industrial music and the acid house music subcultures, Genesis P-Orridge is foremost a hero of the post-punk counterculture, […]
The opening episode of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace — the BBC documentary that’s been generating big buzz since its debut on BBC 2 in late March — is a wildly enjoyable and coruscating, but nevertheless flawed dissection of the connections between Randian Actualism, the rise of technoculture, and the accelerating boom/bust […]
We have been metamorphosed from a mad body dancing madly on a hillside into a pair of eyes staring in the dark. -Jim Morrison. Back in the early days of the automobile (that revolutionary “Personal Transporter†that changed everything), it often took a bit of time for the thing to really get going. You’d hear […]
The artist has a compulsive need to pay tribute to what he has experienced, not only in order to share it with others, but also in order to fully reflect and bring into awareness the weight and depth of the emotional experience for himself or herself — the level of which might be bubbling just […]
