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<< JS . ADAMS . ARTIST . STATEMENT . BIO [context 001] my work represents the physical manifestation of a personal encrypted story relayed in a truncated and purposefully oblique vocabulary . misfired communication signals . broadcast interference . echo location . broken language . and poetry concrete . artworks are contextualized in cyclical repetitions and misappropriated realignments of static imagery and language manipulations . often presented in tandem with or solely represented as temporal audio installations or sound art compositions [context 002] sculpture + cinematography [ Ball State University : Muncie IN : 1972-76 ] . silver haloid + alternative photographic processes [ Center for Photographic Studies : Louisville KY : 1976-78 ] [context 003] member of Washington DC queer arts collective the Triangle Artists Group [TAG] . Nashoba Institute's Bear Icons Artist Collective . and Outmusic . curator of TAG's annual Queering Sound event of alternative sound and spoken word [context 004] under my BLK w/ BEAR sound art pseudonym . create both temporal turntable installations and laptop compositions utilizing forced looping technique of altered vinyl recordings along with 'dead media' recording sources such as Mutoscope 'Voice-o-Graph' and Wilcox Gay 'Recordio' discs . deconstructive turntablism . releases are available through queer musicians collective Kuma-Chan Records [San Francisco CA] and independent label Trace Recordings [UK] << back to art index ©2004 ARF/STUTTERtones