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Paul Laffoley

 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
16:59 / 15.08.01
As a spin-off of the 'magickal artwork' thread, I mentioned paul laffoley, and wondered if anybody knew anything about him, or could point me towards some websites with more information about his art and the theory behind it. My knowledge of him comes primarily from disinfo, and the interviews and links with/on him there (and on the disinfonation show). I'm still trying to get my head around his ideas, his explanation for his time machine seemed rather incomprehensible (the interview in which he talks about it seems to be down, goddamn realvideo streaming piece of crap...). Can anybody explain his orgone motor, living painting or time machine? Or any other interesting information??
 
 
Mordant Carnival
18:09 / 15.08.01
I can only find this: http://www.dilettantepress.com/Artisthtdocs/Paul_Laffoley.html

and this: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/l/paul_laffoley/

Be interesting to find out more...
 
 
Mordant Carnival
18:22 / 15.08.01
Hang on, I tell a lie- These chaps have some of his work.
http://www.kentgallery.com/
 
 
Mystery Gypt
00:20 / 16.08.01
there's also a graet dossier on him at disinfo.com, can't remember where exactly. there's good stuff on him in a book called Kooks, and kent published two books -- one called The Phenomenonlogy of Revelation, and another i can't remember off the top of my head. check dilettante's website, they sell a book with some of his work.

i've known paul for years, he's an amazing -- no, he is THE MOST amazing artist / thinker alive. he means everyword, and is totally capable of pulling it off. totally davinci. in recent times he's been making headway talking to folks at MIT and meeting people like brian greene. obviously he sometimes has trouble being taken seriously, but he is on a whole different level than your usual crackpot "i can build a timemachine" type savant.
 
 
Mordant Carnival
04:23 / 16.08.01
Good news is, here's the links to the dossier: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id231/pg1/ http://www.disinfo.com/pages/multimedia/id566/pg1/ http://www.disinfo.com/pages/multimedia/id511/pg1/

Bad news is thye weren't working last time I tried 'em. Oh, well.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
00:30 / 07.09.01
as it turns out, i've just redesigned and relaunched the dilettante press site. we've put up an interesting article by laffoley about Utopic space, and a news article about him as well. check it out at http://www.dilettantepress.com
 
  
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