Flicker by John Geiger - In its entirety, in .pdf form

"John Geiger traces the history of how a visual phenomenon first described two hundred years ago by physiologist Jan Purkinje has become the basis of further scientific studies into how the visual brain works, and how its repercussions have spread widely into contemporary artistic and musical culture."

The study of stroboscopic light began as a purely scientific study. Geiger’s history begins at this point and goes on to study the transition to the art world that was pioneered by Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Genesis P-Orridge and Allen Ginsberg. While the book is an examination of the intersection between art and science, it is also a study of major currents in Western culture by way of an investigation of an obscure phenomenon.
Not only was flicker central to the artistic explorations of the afore-mentioned by Geiger also finds intersections with the lives (and deaths) of people as various as Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain, Keith Haring, Ned Rorem, Paul McCartney, Derek Jarman, Paul Bowles, David Bowie." - from Soft Skull Press.com

  
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.” - William S. Burroughs

Burroughs The Movie - 1985

"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed." - William Seward Burroughs 

Featuring - Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Jackie Curtis, John Giorno, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs
Directed By - Howard Brookner
Photography - Kate Simon, Kevin Gordon
Producer - Alan Yentob, Howard Brookner

Label: Giorno Poetry Systems
Catalog#: GPS 034
Format: VHS, NTSC
Country: US
Released: 1985

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Recentish Work

Scans of 4x5 neg. contact prints.
4 of these are were hanging at Golden Gallery's Aux. Space and are were for sale as well.


(Excuse the crookedness of the scans.)