Weird Fiction

Cryogenic keepings of frozen forecasts have been inadvertently thawed, revealing a sort of disheveled map. Within this info-graphic array— the dizzying spell of winged migrations that will befall (((WFT))) in coming weeks–is foretold!  Hurtling this ficto-quizzical milieu will be,  in varied trajectories.  Weird Fiction will be transported to the nethermost craters of the Willamette Valley, i.e., Ditch Project Space in Springfield, OR.  Together with the miasmic machinists, Future Death Toll ,on the eve of 20 February, to accelerate the concurrent Ditch Freeze event into a new dark age.

Come March 6th, in the forestal abysm of Olympia, under the auspices of the Hall of The Woods, still greater swathes of immemorial lunacy will be heralded across the pacific northwest patches of spaceship earth! Witness the Olympia Noise Fest, if you can fathom such an affront!

As winter warbles and spring time creeps in, other avenues, looming now on the outskirts of this sphere, will be more tangibly deciphered and so remain: to be announced!

As 2009 expires, Weird Fiction exhumes a curious collection of GIF animation, curating items conjured up from a year’s worth of trolling in the deep dark dungeons of the internets.

This alongside an emergent compendium of collateral texts, GIF speciation theories and other missives propagated by the (((WFT))) policy institute; who, in an effort to advance their own “ficto-quizzical” mythologies, will facilitate the hoarding of materials on a dedicated electronic storehouse (weird-fiction.net/gifeconomy)

At once an instantiation of the “gift economy” and a call to action within the economy of expression roused by the humble parameters of the Graphic Interchange Format. (in)Appropriated material, both solicited and scavenged, will be intermingled within this labyrinthine technocultural milieu.

Denizens of the World Wide Web are implored to reanimate dead media and revive retrograde knowledge structures; deploying anomalous information and thereby accelerating GIF speciation. The GIF is your passport to the immortal realms of mythology mash-ups and off-modern memes. Remember: overexposure to cine-molecular glitch scapes (GIF animations and their kin) may lead to as of yet unknown climes of panopticonscious surrender.

NOW through December 18th–Send your GIFs to:  weirdfictiongifs@gmail.com

To be deployed live starting December 3rd online and at on site at Tractor gallery in Portland

the following Memetic prompts and file name suggestions culled from existing Weird Fiction mythos, may be used to guide your GIF speciation efforts:

-Ficto-Quizzical
-Obliterati
-Cine-Molecule
-Second-Wave Vampling
-Lorkurer
-Glitchcraft
-Derelict Theory Objects
-Temporary Autonomous Clone
-Obliteratarium
-Panopticonscientious Objector
-Majestic 12
-Polterzeitgeist

Additional prompts will be transmitted to the fleshy minds of mammals by way of twitter.com/cthulhucalling

“Memory, what is the frequency?”  a question quipped by desperate denizens of the networked cosmos gains new momentum in Weird Fiction’s frantic formations.  One such constellation of ficto-quizzical frenzy seeps in on noospheric gulfs on Friday, October 9th at the Work/Sound gallery situated as it is in the Southeastern side of Portland, Earth

William Tager notwithstanding, anomalous acts of brutality will be sequestered to the video arena, where Weird Fiction, as always, operates live on the innards of information culture.

If this most auspicious evening  evidences any unexpected sorts of critical beatdown, chalk it up to the addition of the rogue percussionist and his bevvy of uncertain sensory impacts

It is written in dried tea leaves,  caffeinated call signs, a faint cry from a fast-approaching future wherein Weird Fiction projectiles emerge as cine-molecular miasmas once again!   Erupting within the interplanetary, interdisicplinary, intersecting sound and sights of the Interplay.  September 18th at the Hipbone, and as is so often fabled, it is unfolding from the depths of that forestal haunt known as Portland, Earth