walkerdowney https://walkerdowney.me walkerdowney Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:32:21 +0000 https://walkerdowney.me en Main page https://walkerdowney.me/Main-page Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:32:21 +0000 walkerdowney https://walkerdowney.me/Main-page INDEX <img width="3026" height="2081" width_o="3026" height_o="2081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb5117849c69fb4b1ce6ead8e4da1781a2026f3a0120b2440d27d8843f3d8008/lecompte14.jpg" data-mid="86487367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb5117849c69fb4b1ce6ead8e4da1781a2026f3a0120b2440d27d8843f3d8008/lecompte14.jpg" /> NOTES FOR A COMING ATTRACTION I died. Deader and deader. / "Little joke corpse!" Yeah, I shrank beyond belief; I'd even fit quite neatly / inside the bowl of my ridiculously / miniscule briarwood pipe. / Ishmael they call me, Father / Ishmael. I'm such a pipsqueak, though, / they have got to be kidding. Read more... AUG 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281︎ <img width="1379" height="944" width_o="1379" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28aaf7b33fc76d3a5a6c1a98944824a1b4b90b4dce05ec033a9c971bef8adf6d/10000-5-2.jpg" data-mid="86487372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28aaf7b33fc76d3a5a6c1a98944824a1b4b90b4dce05ec033a9c971bef8adf6d/10000-5-2.jpg" /> SHAMPOO Incense clings to the Corpse's abdomen / Great is Allah! Not I for I was born / To loathe myself and drink through my thin skin / Evening's hope and the naked fright of dawn Read more... AUG 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281︎ <img width="2047" height="2177" width_o="2047" height_o="2177" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2941e0831e6e258f302c97755a8483174bd716264df530c9101080a3cc843689/lecompte6.jpg" data-mid="86487365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2941e0831e6e258f302c97755a8483174bd716264df530c9101080a3cc843689/lecompte6.jpg" /> CROWNED HEAD Madness thundery gist of dream and dross / Ring where the cave of future ring / Cherry between me and the boogeyman Nothingness / My wind-tossed head a flurry of feathers Read more... JUL 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="2419" height="2068" width_o="2419" height_o="2068" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3653ffc7ddd11161a22a1ffff6bf0a5892c4eb300e606b79e13049c8fabfe656/lecompte-2.jpg" data-mid="86487363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3653ffc7ddd11161a22a1ffff6bf0a5892c4eb300e606b79e13049c8fabfe656/lecompte-2.jpg" /> THE BORDERS OF LOVE Between two mouths in a kiss / Windowglass. Read more... JUL 2021ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="1794" height="1653" width_o="1794" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b85fb754e25159053701abedf08f84893d09d492173bfbedf7b20e7750d03d4c/lecompte-3.jpg" data-mid="86487368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b85fb754e25159053701abedf08f84893d09d492173bfbedf7b20e7750d03d4c/lecompte-3.jpg" /> THE WING OF SLEEP He waded all the way back up life's stream / And came out the other side / Lost where others wander not yet born He dreamt he was dreaming / Changing planets / Sleeping only to awake over and over / To the clock of blood ticking in his head Read more... JUL 2021ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="2642" height="1906" width_o="2642" height_o="1906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27d9b261651ca0fc1ed6656526f3a1665d348b11be5a558b08828e226b5977f5/lecompte-scans-2-18-20-.gif" data-mid="86487362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27d9b261651ca0fc1ed6656526f3a1665d348b11be5a558b08828e226b5977f5/lecompte-scans-2-18-20-.gif" /> MASKED LIFE A massive pale waxwork of a woma / Forever rotating in horrible slow motion, / The statue spins like a top on the grease of dreams, / A blind lighthouse whose eclipsed face is / Haloed with a numb nimbus of horror Read More... JUN 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="1279" height="1328" width_o="1279" height_o="1328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e80af154d8004a79988f7e0e453f1ef9b3f52c1b379445753b5c52fec8f469d/10000-22-2.jpg" data-mid="86487377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e80af154d8004a79988f7e0e453f1ef9b3f52c1b379445753b5c52fec8f469d/10000-22-2.jpg" /> VACANCY IN GLASS To a palace made / Of wind / To a palace whose towers / Are pillars of fire by day / To an opal palace / In the sky's zenith heart Read More...&nbsp; JUN 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="2104" height="1986" width_o="2104" height_o="1986" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63df5af8b2d9e2550ea39f83044243b91826bb0ba8d3eee36215ddbc2bd9efbe/lecompte12.jpg" data-mid="86487370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63df5af8b2d9e2550ea39f83044243b91826bb0ba8d3eee36215ddbc2bd9efbe/lecompte12.jpg" /> WIND FIRE They say when there was no / Such thing as time or place / The wind lived by itself / Whirling in empty space / To fill a hungry hear / Unborn with sighs until /&nbsp;From rubbing wind on windRead More... MAY 2021ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="822" height="822" width_o="822" height_o="822" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfcaa4af31f5f179fbbf0c0a8ec25e0f6bd433cd568c4df3a7e1250aed66c0d8/10000-18.jpg" data-mid="86487373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/822/i/cfcaa4af31f5f179fbbf0c0a8ec25e0f6bd433cd568c4df3a7e1250aed66c0d8/10000-18.jpg" /> TO THE NORTH WIND Alive yet not alive you crawl in stone / Prisoner of an air castl / Lover in a dread / Crushed in advance / By the heavy heav / Marble anchor of the / Death you have been howling for for a hundred centuries Read More... APR 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="2575" height="1733" width_o="2575" height_o="1733" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e21433842a186aed9c9814d6c3cbfd3b73854b9bf18988ffb8401a4f7272af7/lecompte1.jpg" data-mid="86487366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e21433842a186aed9c9814d6c3cbfd3b73854b9bf18988ffb8401a4f7272af7/lecompte1.jpg" /> THE MYSTIC EGG ... And when the cycle of his sufferings ended / From an Antarctic refuge he ascended / Into the cold nude beauty of the night / Expanding, full of holes, immense yet light Read More... APR 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="1100" height="1114" width_o="1100" height_o="1114" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6ee7f84856aa7302a6023d1d14fea249f4c76132f9b9e30f910a1cc5ae8725f/10000-19.jpg" data-mid="86487375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6ee7f84856aa7302a6023d1d14fea249f4c76132f9b9e30f910a1cc5ae8725f/10000-19.jpg" /> INTO THE EYES OF NIGHT A woman dozes on a roof her name is night / Ancient abandoned to the perils of intoxication / To sleep's fumbling treasons / Dreamer in an avalanche of slips / Ditched on a high glassy place to eyeball outer space Read More... MAR 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="951" height="790" width_o="951" height_o="790" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8d70a4293c89cbd133b5a1b1f8a8d4d2e0fe74d32b2ceb7cb8601610436ceb8/lecompte22.jpg" data-mid="86487369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/951/i/e8d70a4293c89cbd133b5a1b1f8a8d4d2e0fe74d32b2ceb7cb8601610436ceb8/lecompte22.jpg" /> THE PERPETUAL INCANTATION That awful mask a snapshot Amazed solitude Transfixes on the surface Of a perennial torrent flesh Casual flesh Read More... MAR 2021ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="1000" height="993" width_o="1000" height_o="993" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6f9a652d73fa5f67b30e32f988d6ee0cb7c3da7fbd41687cb2b1b08aeca6b22/10000-20-1.jpg" data-mid="86487374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6f9a652d73fa5f67b30e32f988d6ee0cb7c3da7fbd41687cb2b1b08aeca6b22/10000-20-1.jpg" /> WHAT A HOWLING SHAME What a howling shame progress has eliminated the usage of the tinderbox that pyrological machine Read More... MAR 2021ISBN-10: 0882681281 ︎ <img width="1938" height="2438" width_o="1938" height_o="2438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13286aba806a1ebf21ba4831f9fab9e61f9a82fea15bd5148ffe9d6b1228cafc/lecompte5.jpg" data-mid="86487371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13286aba806a1ebf21ba4831f9fab9e61f9a82fea15bd5148ffe9d6b1228cafc/lecompte5.jpg" /> IMPURE POEM At the bottom of the green Waters of death Read More... MAR 2021 ISBN-10: 0882681281 &nbsp; ︎ About Me https://walkerdowney.me/About-Me Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:25:56 +0000 walkerdowney https://walkerdowney.me/About-Me Books In Resonance: The Sonic Invention of David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros, forthcoming Spring 2027 from University of California Press. Peer-reviewed articles “Unsound Judgments: Noise Pollution, the White Noise Machine, and Sonic Color Lines,” Resonance 4, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 39–68. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2023.4.1.39. "In the Free Field: Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III and Anechoic Histories," Art Journal OPEN, August 30, 2018, http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=10247. Journal issues editedEditor, with Sarah Rifky, Thresholds 47, "Repeat" (2019). Available via The MIT Press. Chapters in edited volumes With Katsushi Nakagawa, “‘Environmnental Music’ (Kankyō Ongaku) and the Remaking of the Japanese City, 1960–1990,” in A Cultural History of Asian Art, vol. 6, ed. Wulan Dirgantoro and Pamela Karimi, forthcoming 2028 from Bloomsbury. Essays, criticism, and book reviews “As the Famed ‘October’ Journal Turns 50, This Reading List Charts Its Legacy,” Art in America, Spring 2025, http://bit.ly/4d5ZTgB. Book Review: Prudence Peiffer’s The Slip:&nbsp;The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, Art in America,&nbsp;Fall 2023, p. 46–49,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/3r0br1e. With Parham Ghalamdar, “Echoes of Loss and Celebration: Iranian Home Videos as Beautiful Apparitions,”&nbsp;Ajam Media Collective, April 8, 2023, https://bit.ly/3ogQs9a. With Caroline A. Jones, “At Hearing’s Edge: Artist Doug Wheeler Achieves a Semi-Anechoic Immersive Artwork, Synthetic Desert, with Arup’s SoundLab,” a+u: Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, December 2022, p. 156–163,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/41QJbdU. “For Eyes and Ears: New Sound Art Serves Different Senses with a Multimodal Approach,” Art in America, June 7, 2022,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/3mkAKVX. “Material Histories: Ruth Hardinger at Mana Contemporary,” Art in America, August 4, 2021,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/3xQ0mgG.“Rebooting the Art-and-Technology Movement: A Review of W. Patrick McCray’s Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, March 17, 2021, 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2021.1885863. “The Sounds of Quarantine: How Experimental Musicians are Overcoming Domestic Isolation,” Art in America, June 24, 2020, https://bit.ly/3iEZowK. “Agnes Denes’s Idealistic Projects Refuse to Accept Apocalypse as Inevitable,” Art in America,&nbsp;January 2020, p. 73–75,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/3koHwXx. "Reappraising Luc Ferrari and Éliane Radigue, Two Renegades of French Music," Art in America, December 11, 2019, https://bit.ly/2LGUp0j. "Robert Morris's 'Para-Architectural' Drawings Envision a Fantasy Complex That Prioritizes Movement Over Static Form," Art in America,&nbsp;December 2019, p. 97–98,&nbsp;https://bit.ly/36d60PD. "Surveying Manfred Mohr’s Five-Decade Collaboration with the Computer," Art in America,&nbsp;November 2019, p. 103–104&nbsp;https://bit.ly/2LLA3mp. "In Resonance: Oliver Beer at the Met Breuer," Art in America, July 30, 2019, https://bit.ly/2PFHKvN.“Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future,” Art Papers,&nbsp;Winter 2018–2019, p. 72–73, &nbsp;https://bit.ly/3sHHD4Z. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts PhD: Architecture: History and Theory of Art; May 2022 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts MA: Art History; June 2015 Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts BA: Studio Art and Art History; May 2013