". . . says he's a guy who just loves to write, but somehow I don't believe him. He's well-intentioned, but where will that get you? In any case, he likes people, lives in Chi-town, and works at Illinois Institute of Technology teaching writing. Ain't that the way it always goes?" ---Anon.
Frustrated poet and musician, was driven to the academy by economic necessity. Currently the relevant academy is Oklahoma City University, where Randall exchanges ideas with post-pubescent humanoids and bits of paper with administrators. He says that he writes art criticism in lieu of masturbating.
has forgotten where or why he went to school. He says (and, quaintly enough, apparently believes) he is still trying to figure out the point of human existence. Having come perilously close to the idea that it has no point, but maybe an edge, he is now engaged with the production of Perforations and occasional Tinnitus performances, both pretty point-less in their own right.
practices architecture in Atlanta. He has practiced in London and Boston. He has a Bachelor of Science in commerce and business administration from the University of Alabama, Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University.
practice architecture in Atlanta. Together they generate work as TRACTION/collaborative, primarily to investigate the relationship between body and architecture: architecture as the space created from the experience of body as it interacts with an object.
is a composer turned against music and become writer/theorist on radical mediation of process perception, simulation and induction of auditory consciousness, took PhD at Princeton, dabbled in neuroscience, was invited to join core research group at a Sony media lab, and will soon have a book published by Princeton University Press. He has recently been sighted in Tokyo, New York, Montreal and San Francisco. His next scheduled public appearance will be this May at 3cyberconf, where he will be speaking about the electronic alteration of consciousness.
works in Atlanta, and waits for the city's virtual apocalypse, precisely dated for the summer of 1996. Error Trapping was written entirely while under the influence of the Tinnitus recording included in this very same issue. Keep the faith, architecture is not dead! (yet)
In the suburbs where David Kolb grew up, everyone knew what "the city" was. On the way to a PhD in philosophy from Yale, he worked briefly as a city planning intern. After five years in Chicago he moved to Maine. He teaches at Bates College and worries about what identity and tradition might mean in a postmodern world. He has written The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After, and, more recently, Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition. He is working on a hypertext about the possibility of non-linear philosophical writing.
(Professor of Sociology, West Georgia College) perpetuates phenomenologies and critical theories of the body, ethics, art, and environment. Presently he is completing a postmodern rereading of Dali's expulsion from the Surrealist movement.
has a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin although she remains undefined as her interests lie somewhere between performing and techno-nomadic making. Published articles include "Paris, Blank Paper, and Infinity" in SLAB 05.
has contributed to all four issues of Perforations. She is currently finishing a novel called City of God which will be the first publication of FORT!/da? Publishing, a new Public Domain/Perforations venture.
is a fictive body for genertating troublesome texts. He has recently been sighted in Tokyo, Boston, Atlanta, and is anticipated in Berlin, and prefers to be on a trajectory elsewhere. His masters thesis at Harvard concerned the film "Blade Runner" and Strategies of Urban In(ter)vention in Shinjuku, Tokyo. He seeks to become a man-without-qualities.
had an article in Perforations 2 entitled The Puncture Effect: Encrypted Space, Modernism, and the Hoarse Men of the Apocalypse. She spent her childhood in Beirut and lived in Los Angeles as an adult. She was employed before her death as Research Fellow with the Center for Techno-Psychic Research. Her last book was Djinn and the Arabian Enlightment: Colonization, Apparatus, Magic. We hope to present more work from her estate in future issues of Perforations.
is creating a time out within his own private public domain where he can stare with wonder at nothing in particular. He recently awoke from the dream of being human into a realization that he is a cyborg. He is learning to live with Cadigan Syndrome.
(as in Paladin), aka Mobius Dick... In the daytime, an ex-buisness operator cum student/scholar wannabe. At night, a delver into inexplicable realms among anarcho/syndicalist... devotee at the temple of Hermes cavorting on the vine bridge between the imaginary and the symbolic, looking forward to the next incarnation as a Lacanian Peter Boyle.
Mr. Sondheim's books include Individuals: Post-movement Art in America (Dutton, 1977) and Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988). His current projects include a series of texts and videos dealing with post-modernism and poverty in the American Southwest and the psychodynamics of male heterosexuality. A video retrospective is currently touring Australia. He teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
is finishing up a doctorate at the university of Michigan where he has been a graduate teaching assistant in visual studies and architecture. He is involved in research programs with such titles as "Reconstruction of Rotationally Symmetric Objects with Deformable Models and Tools for Visual Segmentation," and co-author of such papers as Architecture and Utopia in the Electronic Age.
is a member of the faculty of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Cornell University (B. Arch., M. Arch., M.R.P.) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.), Vakalo has taught at the Technische Universitaet Wien and has lectured at a variety of institutions here and abroad. His teaching and research interests are in basic design, morphological analysis, form-making theory and methods, and the application of quantitative techniques to spatial problems.
Professor Vakalo is the author of a book and several articles in these areas and has worked as a design and planning consultant to a variety of private and public organizations.