Paranoid Machines

Flynn [gesturing at his video game arcade]: The kids are putting eight million quarters a week into the paranoid machines. I don’t see a dime except for what I can squeeze outta here.

Alan: I still don’t understand why you want to break into the system.

Flynn: Because, man! Somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence! If I got in far enough, I could reconstruct it.

– Tron

Paranoid Machines – Pacific Standard Time (Los Angeles, 1946-1981)
2012 Jan 21 – Machine Project, Los Angeles
Micropower FM Broadcast. Sonic Phenomena by David Eng. Audience refugee Paks sponsored by Bank of America
Paranoid Machines – Panorama
2012 Jan 21 – Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles
Lecture, live audience of CCA students.
Documentation:
Audio – 72 minute MP3
Video – various
Paranoid Machines – MOCA Film
2011 Jan 08 – Machine Project, Los Angeles.
Hyperlecture: MetaOrganism!
2011 May 06 – Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Three-way Hyperlecture Cage Match, vs Jason Torchinsky (cars) and Colin Dickey (saints)
Event Post
Endosymbiotic Cha-Cha – Sexy Nite
2010.11.06 – Betalevel, Los Angeles
Endosymbiotic Cha-Cha – Arse Elektronika
2010.10.02 – Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco
When Ghost Ships Sailed the Skies
2010 September 10 – Machine Project, Los Angeles
New Machines
2009 December 05 – LACMA, Los Angeles
Paranoid Machines – SIGINT
2009 May 22 – Cologne, Germany
Paranoid Machines – MIT
2009 April 07 – Cambridge
Paranoid Machines – Cabinet
2009 April 04 – New York City
The Mind Diddlers
2008 September 28 – Arse Elektronika, San Francisco
Conspiracy Means Breathing Together
2007 November 23 – machine project
Paranoid_Machines – paraflows
2007 September.19 – metalab, Vienna, Austria
Space Paranoids – Machine Project
2007 July 07 Los Angeles
Space Paranoids – The Armory
2007.June.16 – Pasadena
Greetings Programs: The Two Faces of Apocalypse in TechnoGnostic Mythology
2007.March.04 – SCMS, Chicago
Paranoid_Machines
2006 December 15 – Machine Project
Space Paranoids – Saturday School
2003 Feb 21 – New York University
Space Paranoids
1999 April 24 – Unnatural Acts conference, UC Riverside
Digital.
The Myth of Virtuality
1996, Undergraduate Research Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara
An examination of contemporary gnostic mythologies.
media: voice, slide projector, 35mm transparencies, fire, dirt, loss, the psychic cannibalism of academia