Panel discussion about LAtitudes moderated by Hector Tobar at the CSUN Center for Southern California Studies.
Errata Salon: Forgetting
Book of Ether
“Ether” could refer to the first modern surgical anesthetic, the realm of the gods, a hypothetical medium to explain how light propagates as a wave, a notable rap battle, or a prophet-historian credited with a key section of the Book of Mormon.
Beach Invasions
Slide lecture and discussion with LAtitudes contributors for the Beach=Culture series at the Annenburg Community Beach House.
Errata Salon: Automatons
“Would You Put Your Brain in a Robot Body?”
Jason Brown tells the origin story of rBecky and outlines the impending submission of humanity to our new robot overlords who he, for one, welcomes.
Fortifications and Catacombs of the Conquests of LA
Errata Salon: Science
“You Have To Be Really Clever to Come Up With A Genuinely Dangerous Thought”
Forbidden scientific concepts, from the dire human implications of the stink ant to Roko’s Basilisk.
Errata Salon: Slowness
Zota Layer performance: an examination of layering and repetition in sound.
Errata Salon: Roads
“CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDO?”
Jason Brown visits a re-enactment of the Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun and traces the route to Los Angeles.
Errata Salon: Lies and Other Bullshit
Jason Brown talks about the Pioneer Memorial in the exposed caverns of Fort Moore Hill and how it’s a bullshit copy of the REAL pioneer memorial, which is Tom Sawyers Island, built at the same time in the mid-50s.
Other topics may include the historical sailing ship Columbia, the real tunnels of the lizard people, and the actual battle of Los Angeles.
LARB: Invisible Playground
The Invisible Playground: Phone Phreaking and the Criminalization of Curiosity
Review of Phil Lapsley’s Exploding the Phone, in the LA Review of Books. April 11, 2013
Errata Salon: The Subterraneans
LA’s Lizard Tunnels and other tales of the underground world
Corpse Bludgeon
Corpse Bludgeon is a Game.
You bludgeon corpses. There are points.
Visual and auditory effects will enhance your Bludgeoning Experience. Can you be the Best? We’ll let YOU be the judge of that!
Oh, but Corpse Bludgeon is so much more than a game. Oh yes. Corpse Bludgeon is a Method. It is a Technology. It is a System. It is a Path.
Paranoid Machines: TigrisNet
Errata Salon: Obsolete Tech
“One Box, Two Box, Red Box, Blue Box”
Zota Layer (Jason Brown) will describe the ancient art of “phone phreaking,” and will give a sound performance using some historically relevant boxen: red, blue, and otherwise.
Errata Salon: Natural History
with AMBIENT FORCE 3000
Performing Gentle Musics, both Background and Foreground
Las Vegas – 2012
Cybernetics! – SMEP
Cybernetics! (Oh silver-ravey blinken-goggly boo-boo child of the quaintly 90s cybery-cyber Cyber!!)
and musical collaboration with Wobbly
&Now 2012, Paris
&Now 2012: New Writing in Paris: Exchanges and Cross Fertilizations
Architectures of Absence: Infomorphs and Authorship.
Université de la Sorbonne, Paris. June 6, 2012
Battle of Los Angeles: 70th Anniversary
With ABIENT FORCE 3000
Machine Project. February 24 2012.
Paranoid Machines – Pacific Standard Time
Sexy Nite: Endosymbiotic Cha-Cha
Triway Hyperlecture
Paranoia, Mania and Melancholy: Triway Hyperlecture Cage Match
Berkeley Art Museum. May 6, 2011.
Obscura Day: Paranoid Bike Ride
Jason Brown and Sean Deyoe ride in and around downtown Los Angeles exploring sites related to lizard tunnels, alien contactees, and various cybernetic nodes.
Paranoid Machines 2000 at Machine
Paranoid Machines at Machine Project for the 12 hour MOCA film shoot.
Saturday January 8, 2011 at 7pm
More paranoid machines info at ParanoidMachines.info