Polterzeitgeist
Photo by Jeffrey Richardson
The Polterzeitgeist is a performance and lecture on the fate of ghosts in today’s atemporal network culture. From the operating theater pictured above, swan songs and ultimatums are voiced on behalf of obsolescent forms of hauntings, examples of “Glocal Anesthesia” are offered, and a speculative genealogy of new and ever more nebulous shadow forms is mapped out. For more flotsam and flightpaths see residual hauntings (far) below:
live para-lectures, ficto-quizzical iterations and video doppelgängers have been haunting coastal climes of the US of A:
2012
Drone Kitsch, Half/Dozen gallery, Portland
2011
Tommorowland Forever!, &Now Festival of New Writing, San Diego
Speculative Genealogy of Metaphortean Research, Observatory Room, Brooklyn
Speculative Genealogy of Metaphortean Research, Little Berlin, Philadelphia
Speculative Genealogy of Metaphortean Research, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
Mission Eye+Ear, ATA, San Francisco
2010
Ghosts, Issue #3 of andreview, online edition, Portland
Other Cinema, San Francisco
The Internet is a Terrible Place to Live, Deep Leap Cinema, Grand Detour, Portland
The Polterzeitgeist + The Revenant Archives, DIVA gallery, Eugene
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RESIDUAL HAUNTINGS:
Phantasmagoria: Spectral Technology and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie by Terry Castle. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 15, No. 1. (1988), 26-61.
“Alien ant tech attacks.” Fortean Times, FT239 August, 2008
The Practice of Everyday Media Life .by Lev Manovich. Video Vortex Reader, 2008
“Off-Course Pilots cite Computer Distraction.” by Michelle Maynard and Mark L.Ward. New York Times, October 2009
“Ghosts, Poltergeists and Electronic Voice” by A.J. Rauber, cassette, 1996
“Woman Runs for her life after satnav leads her into path of speeding train.” by Luke Salked, Daily Mail, May 2007
On Hertzian Space + Urban Architecture. by Mark Shepard, 2010
Atemporality for the Creative Artist. By Bruce Sterling, Transmediale 10, Berlin, 2010
“Somnambulism in the Internet Age.” by David Sutton. Fortean Times January 2009
“NASA Picks Moon Crater to Slam Into.” By Andrea Thompson, Space.com, September 2009
Place: Networked Place. Networked Publics by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedburg, 2008
“Context Collapse,” by Dr. Michael Wesch. Digital Ethnography, 2008
Fantastic in Art and Fiction. Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
“Network Effect” Wikipedia
