Thanks and Attributions
Periodically throughout the years, EventsVortical prepares a condensation of highlights from its ongoing notebooks. Transcribed and inscribed again from hand written quotations into passages of electronic text, the words lose their origins and contexts, enter a process of selection, erosion, reshuffling, reassembling - moving under magnetic compulsion to form, as meaningfully as possible, some coherent reinscription of the zeitgeist in contemporary english - a slice of all I'd been able to contemplate, inscribe and recollect that season... decompiling, recomposting the base material of thought, language breaks back into itself - literal materialization of the thought process --- deliberately excising attribution, intending to diffuse all authority including that of my own author, for instance. Reading is the organ of aesthetic sensibility. All art is thusly participatory. Reader reappropriation is the essential feedback vector of language in culture - ideas must repeat themselves to survive - phrases awkwardly remembered, thoughtforms recirculated through ears, eyes, neural ganglia, and fingertips, by one means or another, arriving in the world again, here, in these in these steaming heaps.
In the past the Lateral Vector has preferred to sign it's text works as pseudonymous multiplicities, defering any assignation of personal authorship -- there is however always a respect and an ongoing interest in transmitting and chronicling the true names of significant and elegant voices from each period's available data cloud. In the interest of simplicity in presentation, the so-mentioned excessively complicating and verbose explicatory passages were trimmed from the current presentations of the texts, which are otherwise presented here misleadingly attributed to S.Calvert, under the ambiguous title ' TEXTS' - listed and linked at page right. S.Calvert must clarify the misassociation, as a gesture of personal accountability, and repeat that 'I am' not the true 'author' of these 'texts', but only one in an infinite precession of assembleurs...
All available points of authorial references, elsewhere excised, are so presented here:
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EXP 1999
Plagiarist Assemblage Text - survey of experiential cognitive research 1999-2000
Conducted by the Scalvert Copyleft Aggregate
May contain traces of the following:
Roland Barthes - Marshall McLuhan - J’lal’ludin Rumi - Gyatri Spivak - Scott Bukatman - Terrence Malick - Lynn Margulis - Terrence Mckenna - Adilkno - Genjo - Antonin Artaud -Friedrich Neitzsche - Karl Marx - The dreaming elder gods
All my relations
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The Middle Worlds
Section One of Five: DEVICES: 01 - 19
Section Two of Five: PLATITUDES: 20 – 32
Section Five of Five: OBSTACLES: 68 – 95
A Plagiarist Assemblage Text
Researched and compiled by Stavrogin Kirilov, Steppin' Lotus St. Laverca, Sven Verticale, and Esteban LacVerite. Each chapter is accompanied by original drawing-machine illustrations by Steve Calvert, 2002-2004 Copyleft Auxin Plagiarists Syndicate, Vancouver 2002-2004.
On the themes of language, art, and the generative system of attention. Orgiastic portraits of structural violence in a hyperspace without atmosphere: ... on Thinking and Mimetic Teknik. an assemblage text reappropriated from the notebooks of Steppin Lotus, Stavrogin Kirilov, Sven Verticale, and Trente Velasce.
Devices is a recombinant text, the product of an irradiating synthesis of combinatoric models: compiled from initial hand-notation, refiltered and recomposed under a host of ridiculous pseudonyms, each eluding to Steve Calvert - who takes no personal credit nor responsibility for the text contained herein, save as arbiter for the processing and assembly itself. The opinions voiced in no way reflect the consensus opinions of the Intermission Artists Society, nor of the Events Vertical Assemblage.
All passages to follow contain extensive quantities of uncited, unsourced, otherwise uncredited language material, decontextually plagarized and liberally airbrushed back together as part of the assembleur's own cognitive process. The text remains open to its readers. Reprocessing encounters with the lives and words of the following honourable thinkers - with many thanks to all participants in the meme pool - onward ho the free proliferation of human discourse:
All illlustrations are collaborations between Steve Calvert and the Anonymous Abstract Machine. Several images which may be included here are collaborative drawings involving Marcy Lucas, Corey Jackson, and any number of collaborators. All remaining illustrations are original artworks of Steve Calvert in collaboration with his coterie of automata and drawing machines.
An appropriationist recombinant text, sampled and resequenced from the words of his tutors, the invisible college. Permissions for plagiarism granted by eternal decree of Set, most powerful egyptian god of the darkness, oldest eternal essence and orgin of the word; separator, isolator, slayer of chaos each night before dawn. What whisperings of knowledge pass through our nervous systems us are his to reinscribe, to work with and rebuild as he sees fit, so speaketh Set. Trees share fruit with all who would eat. Big up much love and don't stop... magnetic haloes of metallic filaments, this text contains resequenced fragments of blatant plagiarisms and entirely uncited phrases, properly attributable to the influence and creative efforts of the following:
David Abrahm, Roger Callois, William Gibson, Sigmund Freud, Manuel DeLanda, Laura Marks, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sergei Eisenstein, Gregg Lambert, Jorge Luis Borges, Herbert Marcuse, Mark Leyner, Paul Gauguin, Henry Higgins, Harold Cohen, Slavoj Zizek, Brian Eno, Cary Wolfe, Sarah Diamond, Khan Lee, Zoe White, Derek Brunen, Rodney Sanches, Richard Andrews, Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Lambert, Paul Klee, David Abrahms, William Gibson, Lebbeus Woods, Erroyl Morris, Grant Morrison, Temple of Set, David Lynch, Steve McCaffery, Ann Smock, Phyllis Zuckerman, Masumone Shirow, Terrence McKenna, Jorge Luis Borges, Tom Robbins, Scott McLoud, Bartosz Barczak, Marcy Lucas, Marianne Bos, Dalai Lama, Sara Ross, Julio Cortazar, Stamen.com, Camille Griggers, Julia Kristeva, Roger Callois, Gilles Deleuze, Cary Wolfe, N.Katherine Hayles, Elizabeth Grosz, Jaques Derrida, Renee Magritte, William Gibson, Mark Achbar, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Leonard Cohen, John Protevi, Manuel DeLanda, ...
Steve Calvert, and the entire cast of characters and participants in the oceanic data conversation pool, all my relations…
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ATCG - Adenosine Thymine Cytosine Guanine
Apophenic Thaumaturgic Combinatoric Generator
On Simulacra: A ‘Patabolic Study of Drawing Machines
A plagiarist assemblage paratactical text
sifted and reassembled by the Events Vertical Incorporation
1999-2000 - remodeled in february of 2007
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credits:
The 1999 Events Vertical collaborative incorporates, appropriates and thoroughly lives along side of the thoughts and lives of innumerable individuals - for those whose names are known, and most emphatically for the unnameable, the author extends his fullest gratitude and solidarity:
derek brunen - rodney sanches - natalie purschwitz - khan lee - mark brady - marianne bos
zoe white - morgan goddard - sarah kinney - suneil kalia - zoe white - steve elliott - spartacus books
much of the the text to follow is appropriationist, even plagiarist, in tactic. Therefor, it should be noted, this document may contain traces of the following:
deleuze & guattari - jean baudrillard - michael taussig - manuel delanda - henri bergson - roland barthes - julia kristeva - william s. burroughs - richard doyle - dorian sagan - n.katherine hayles - theodor adorno - walter benjamin - adilkno - critical art ensemble - steve mccaffery - christian bok - bruce sterling - william gibson - neal stephenson - paul miller - autechre
translator’s prologue:
ATCG is being continuously recompiled thru 2000 and 2001 as an investigative study and discontinuous rumination on the collection of graphical productions process I have developed and coined with tongue in cheek, Xeroglyphy. This aphoristic text is designed to be fractalline, holographic, redundant, and 'paratactical' in keeping with the rhizomatic systems observed in feedback technique itself. Explorations in the visual affect of these machinic procedures more or less describes the primary apparatus of this artist’s practice. In this regard, these relentlessly infolded appropriationist assemblage texts are intended to accompany in an explicatory and added illustrative function.
this research was developed and conducted from 1994 to 2001 by Wynn Laverso, Veste Catverl, Lars Avenyne, and elements of the Events Vertical assemblage which prefer not to be named, these also enumerated as Steve Calvert. But no apophenic project can ever be considered as a solitary undertaking. Our busily dying author works in close affinity and fellowship with his friends and colleagues: the inter.mission incorporation of Vancouver BC;
the fridge-art / Maximalist / Smash Art collaborative of Kanata ON;
and the Bughouse creche of London UK.
the artist also accredits the developmental facilitation of the emily carr college of art and design and the university of british columbia
copious joyful props are also due to the innumerable spontaneous collaborative drawing and discussion ensembles - our immediate community of cultural participants – the zeitgeist / weltanschauung / transmediated interambient-collective-dream-consciousness… and to all other asynchronic intellectual and spiritual contributions instantiated for me throughout the duration of this experiment: our encounters have been manifold, mysterious, and joyously ingratiating - each contact has been appreciated in support of the fruition of this project – so, for those with and without connaissance of their meaningful influence…
all my relations
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PATAPHYSICS
Miasmic Striation:
A ‘pataphysical speculation.
Procedural plagiarist assemblage textes by Events Calvair
Enscribed 2005, Compiled 2006
The following is a plagiarist assemblage text, transcribed,, sorted recompiled, and composited from personal notebooks written throughout the year of 2005 by Steve Calvert. Editorial reassembly by Stavrogin Kirilov, Steppin Lotus, Neway St. la Verca, Auxin, the Locust, Esteban Calverde, Sephirot Wynn Szara, with the gracious production assistance of TeeVeeSee and Events Verticale. This late edit features additional introductory notes on the Nova-type cutup technique, wherein the contents of two justified columns of related print material are interwoven by linking their lines across the fold of the page, charging the outgoing text with new and strangely profound lateral-associative depth. It is intended to accompany a collection of drawings to be reproduced as a ‘graphic novel’ of sorts, materializing immanently…
Contents may contain traces of the following:
Lynn Margulis, Susan Sontag, Sadie Plant, Carey Wolfe, Manuel Delanda, Duncan Blewett, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Pinchbeck, Jeremy Narby, Wade Davis, JC Lilly, Gary Zukav, Alphonso Lingis, Robert Hare, Niels Bohr, Ken Kesey, Andre Breton, Herbert Marcuse, Anise Nin, N.Katherine Hayles, Nicklaus Luhmann, WB Yeats, Wolfgang Von Goethe, Giyatri Spivak, Christian Bok, Ben Okri, Donato Mancini, Christopher Dewdney, Steve McCaffery, Scott McCloud, Frances Huxley, Eckart Tolle, Alan Watts, Henri Breton, Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, George Lucas, Bruce Sterling, Francis Bacon, Mark Taylor, Roger Callois, Jaques Derrida, Khan Lee, Natalie Purschwitz, Mark Brady, Igor Santizo, Yuriko Iga, David Rimmer, Matt O’Donnell …
…in addition to any and all unnameable disembodied voices swarming the zeitgeist; wherever their words may have moved the hairs of my ears or enshadowed my retinas, strobing signal across the interstice if history: for all who speak or have spoken the language; All my relations…
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MAINTAIN YOUR ENTHUSIASM
Notebook rescribe sept 11 2006 of book starting dec1 2005. Last processed Dec 25, 2006.
The following is a plagiarist process-assemblage text was selected, excised, sorted, sifted, folded, decompiled, meme-sifting strange-attractor word-processing systems designed by Auxin StevenWayneCalvert in 2006.
First pages previously included in Pataphysics document of 2005/6
May contain traces of the following:
Gilles Deleuze - Stephen Colbert - Theodore Adorno - Carey Wolfe - Alan Watts - Baruch Spinoza - Leih Tzu - Julia Kristeva - Damien Marley - Lynn Margulis - Dorian Sagan - James Lovelock - Jean Dubuffet - John Stewart - Rodney Sanches - Mark Achbar - Sponge Bob
And innumerable unnameable babbling daemonic succubii muttering whitenoise between the channels…
With much respect to all friends and allies, alms to the legions of souls in this chattering miasma, shout out to the incomensurable voices echoing the cavern of rays…
Namaste, All my relations.
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JUST IS...
Plagiarist assemblage text compiled from notebooks running Sept 11 2006 – Nov 11 2007
May contain traces of the following:
Peter Carroll, Paul Virilio, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Colbert, Deepak Chopra, BSG, Klaus Janson, Johnny Cash, WB Yeats, Roger Caillois, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, David Hume, Derek Robinson...
ARTby Steve Calvert
TEXTS by S.Calvert
AUDIO by S.Calvert
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