Michael Carter
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Michael Carter
@MichaelKCarter
Artist / Educator • ♌︎ ♋︎ ♎︎
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Haziran 2009
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Here’s the very first issue of Gabriel Green’s AFSCA newsletter that published Renaud’s stories in serialized form. Issue 18 from 1963. This particular issue is cool because it belonged to Haughton Barlow of Barlow Studios / Infinity Newsletter. Haughton may have been receiving these from Gabriel in exchange for Infinity. Haughton has one of the coolest es-libris plates in his books, I’m lucky to have a few. I’ve posted pics in the past. I’m an ex-libris plate admirer. I’ve been designing my own for like seven years, can’t quite figure out what I want.
Small_Simple_Ships@ShipsSmall
Doing more writing about 1960s contactee Bob Renaud. He has a fascinating story about extended contact with alien beings through electronic means. He documented all of his contacts in detail. They were published in a serialized fashion in Gabriel Green’s AFSCA “UFO International” newsletter, in many issues ranging from 1963-1969 (see some originals attached). In the early 2000s, the entire collection of contacts was gathered and edited by Bob Renaud and Gabriel Green, and was going to be published across four hardcover books from Wendelle Stevens’”UFO Archives” company based out of Tucson (the company that printed all of the wonderful “UFO Contact at…” books on Aztec, UMMO, Iarga, Pascagoula, etc). Those volumes never happened. Volume 2 (for some odd reason) is available now as a digital file, and Volume 1 was at one point obtainable on CD. Renaud formatted everything on his computer in the 2000s, and it seems that some of that material leaked out in partial condition. These folders contain all the proofs and galley sheets that Wendelle Stevens sent to Bob Renaud in the 2000s, for him to approve the artwork, layouts, and such. Each volume has its own folder with proofs, of books that never came to fruition. Most of the documents are hand cut and glued by Wendelle. ISBN stickers attached on top and such. The artwork for all four volumes is the most intriguing part. I’ll be sharing more pics of this stuff in my Bob Renaud zine issue.
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@verdur_in Don’t give up! This is fascinating and revealing in its intentionally discontinuity.
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"What might a Muslim future look like?" asks Hyperallergic of contemporary art, without a hit of self-awareness.
I have spent the past couple of months trying to put together a symposium on Christianity and contemporary art. I'm out of my depth (and atheist). But even accounting for that, almost every question I have tried to ask has rendered itself moot almost immediately. From my vantage, Christianity has non-believer religious contemporary artists and believer non-contemporary artists. The two relevant poles don't connect, as if by design.
By contrast, the proposals of an Islamic Futurism (whatever that may be) are entirely comfortable in the vernacular of contemporary art. It is entirely possible to be a faithful Muslim and a contemporary artist, as this article suggests. In fact, the contemporary (which sees itself as a growth paradigm) is the natural ally for the confident faith.
If contemporary art is a mechanism for deconstruction, it seems to never have developed that function in relation to Islam. Why is this the case? Was Islam simply not on the agenda when the rules were set? That's not unlikely, but also a somewhat disappointing answer. Is it then that there haven't been enough atheist Muslims in art schools to give rise to this particular genre of anti-religious religious Islam contemporary art (to mirror, for example, practices of the Goldsmiths Marxist religious art lot)?
That may also be true, in as much as Islam is immune from Western secularisation. But I have a feeling that something else is also at play, and that it has something to with the Reformation. At which point, I fear, we are stuck.
hyperallergic.com/artists-set-is…
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@Agent888488 Who is still making this argument now? Strong ‘00s vibes.
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The conflation of pre-literate oral culture with digital-electronic culture, while it has some explanatory power, often confuses more than reveals. What was possible in the former (gigantic linguistic memory, face to face participatory learning) is not at all given for the latter
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The old folks used to call it “crystalizing the astral”
@redaction@redaction
“Hyperstition” is functionally identical to “manifestation” but distinct in the way it accurately diagnoses the mechanism by which it successfully occurs.
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@myechtra Very interesting. Does Swann write about this somewhere?
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In Theosophy's Mahatma Letters, alleged transmissions of spiritual adepts to Blavatsky, there's a design for a copper-plated mirror room useful for awakening clairvoyance. It worked so well for Ingo Swann he became overwhelmed. A psychic friend said his chakras had been opened.
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@samanthawillman Thank you. Yeah the % art scheme is widespread in the States too and I’ve had some work placed this way. Was super interested in space related projects though! Please ask, definitely would like to know.
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You know public projects (in Canada anyways) often have a 1%bart budget (sizable) in the past what I have done is produce a report identifying areas for works to be commissioned and the client puts out a call for proposals and usually stakeholders review applications, sometimes we interface with them on installation, but I’ve never really been apart of the commissioning or tendering process. I can ask tho.
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I've been working on a mission control center for a space agency, a very beloved project for a sci-fi nerd like myself, I just presented a very bold retro-tech/interstellar-core concept design to a room of intense, tough crowd astrophysicists 'n they loved it :)
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@Paul_Heron_ Modern evangelicalism and modern astrology both emerge out of Southern California. The dichotomy of LA…
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Can we go back to the good old days of Nancy Reagan and her astrologer?
This was her, Joan Quigley.
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
Full-on global Holy War sure why not
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@DisgracedProp I met Newsom years ago, one night in North Beach. He was still mayor, pre-scandals, and a little drunk. Immediate bad impression. Thought about voting, like “oh, I’m gonna have to vote against this guy someday. Unavoidable.”
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People need to think for a moment very seriously about what it will mean to have Gavin Newsom as the president of the United States and just how many decades of damage to America will occur.
And if this Iran thing doesn’t go well, it’s all but guaranteed
Ælþemplær@Aelthemplaer
It has begun
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☾ The 1888 Synthesis : Science, Religion & The Secret Doctrine (Hilma Af Klimt) | Michael Carter ☾
youtu.be/vg6R36EcX_E
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Part 2 of the Blue Hour podcast interview. We talk about process, my scholarship into Theosophical texts, and do some reflection.
A more personal conversation than the usual discussion about my work.
Link in replies.
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@Paul_Heron_ Yeah it’s interesting to speculate why the wall of text xweet is suboptimal compared to the thread.
Also destroyed is the real-time updates thread, which was such a strength of this platform.
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Remember when people used to write threads on this app? Now we just get ugly long xweets.
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Pablo Picasso’s Constellations series, drawn in a notebook in 1924.
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☀Theosophy in Visual Art : The Secret Occult History of Abstraction | Michael Carter☀
youtu.be/RnDyyCpFwW8
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Alex Coma visited me in LA to record this episode of the Blue Hour. We talked about cosmic religions, my Theosophical research, and the near future of humanity.
An uncommonly personal portrait of an unrepeatable moment in time.
Link below.
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