Weird Fiction has been described as an interdisciplinary arts group operating on the innards of the technocultural imagination. Based in Portland, OR, regionally and intergalactically, Weird Fiction has produced speculative fiction blogs, multimedia performance, videos, interactive installations and book works since their inception in early 2009. Exploring the possibility spaces between fact and fiction, hype and horror, residual media and networked technologies; Weird Fiction traverse the outer regions and ramifications of today’s pervasive information environments.
Beyond these looming theory-objects are figures of evident pictorial intent, though the expressionistic ficto-quizzicism forbids a very clear idea of its nature. There seem to be humanoids dressed as monsters, monsters dressed as humanoids, or humanoids representing a monster of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If, by way of a somewhat extravagant imagination, one yielded simultaneous pictures of an owl, a two-frame GIF animation and telecommunications detritus –this would not be be unfaithful to the spirit of Weird Fiction.
To make contact with Weird Fiction: weirdfictionpdx [at] gmail [dot] com
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In the proverbial abyss there are a great many entities that pass to and fro. This ficto-quizzical milieu is no different and has opportuned many rifts in space-time, to be in phase with, a great many gifted entities. This has included the following notable beings:
Alienated Hominid, a vidsonic sorcerer, one who has now set sail for strange vistas beyond the horizon(tal hold). Also Electromagnetic Archeologist, design scientist and analog wizard of the highest caliber, who has journeyed to the perhaps stranger vista of Pittsburgh to perfect his craft. Elsewhere, fruitful collisions with the megalithic systems of Future Death Toll have unfurled.
(((WFT))) SIGHTINGS
Redshift // Performance Works Northwest // 45.489235,-122.594613 // Portland, OR, Earth
April 30th & May 1st, 02010
Cryospheric Disturbances // Ditch Project Space // 44.04454,-123.019609 // Springfield, OR, Earth
Feb. 20th, 02010 A.D.
Pure-Forms // Dunes // 45.523452,-122.676207 // Portland, OR, Earth
Jan. 12th, 02010 A.D.
Lexiconspiracy // Tractor Gallery // 45.525209, -122.677519 // Portland, OR, Earth
Dec. 18th, 02009 A.D.
The Postcard Show // The Lab // 37.765136,-122.41857 // San Francisco, CA, Earth
Dec.4-Dec.6th, 02009 A.D.
GIF Economy // Tractor Gallery // 45.525209, -122.677519 // Portland, OR, Earth
Dec. 3rd – Dec. 18th, 02009 A.D.
Memory/Frequency // Worksound // 45.517593,-122.656998 // Portland, OR, Earth
Oct.9th, 02009 A.D.
Collection Connection // Work Gallery // 42.279185,-83.740858 // Ann Arbor, MI, Earth
Sept 18th-Oct.16th, 02009 A.D.
Desolo Luna Vox Theatrum // KBOO // 45.522501,-122.657355 // Portland, OR, Earth
Aug.31st, 02009 A.D.
Interplay // Hipbone Studios// 45.523261,-122.646914 // Portland, OR, Earth
Summer, 02009 A.D.
Media Archeology // Westside Welding and Machine// 45.634309,-122.68357 // Vancouver, WA, Earth
June, 02009 A.D.
Media Archeology // The Wail// 45.560101,-122.620428 // Portland, OR, Earth
May 10th, 02009 A.D.
Mythos //Dunes // 45.523452,-122.676207 // Portland, OR, Earth
April 30th, 02009 A.D.