Research-Creation & Critical Making
Research doesn’t need to be exclusively textual; sometimes the best way to think through questions is by making art or machines.
I’m one half of an experimental noise band with my Cultural Studies co-worker Kelly Egan. She plays film strips through effects pedals and optical sound readers; I mess around with handmade synths and other unconventional paths to electronic sounds. By taking things apart we learn how they work better (or, sometimes, how they work constructively worse).
Solar-Powered Media
A zine on how to build your own solar-powered website (and why you might want to do so). Co-authored with Benedetta Piantella. Risograph print copies (with holographic sticker(!)) distributed via Printed Matter in NYC.
Everyday Oil
A zine about energy infrastructures and the everyday in Alberta. [PDF for web] [Digital publication at Heliotrope]
Energy In/Out of Place
A volume with Mystery Spot Books on research-creation approaches to the site-specific study of energy cultures. Co-edited Emily Roehl, Caleb Wellum, and myself.
The Radio Broadcast
A para-fictional radio documentary about ancient cairns and 18th century scientific cultures made by Juniper Mitchell, in collaboration with Kosta Gligorijevic and myself.