Alan S. Tofighi will perform the composition Psychic Hold/Tychic Drift III: Memory Cone & Phantasms of the Living Room for PEAR REG, alpha wave, electronics, and home appliances. Throughout the piece events, musical, electronic, and mechanical will be activated and made visible by the otherwise invisible synchronization between the performer and the random event generator. Modular synths, motors, acoustical phenomena of the space, and other resonances will be performed throughout the space and work. The events will be connected and chained to a series of Logic systems revealing and subverting their own network for a telematic improvisation on spectres and the spectral.
Participants form the workshop are invited to perform as the Psychic Drift Ensemble bringing their random event generators and personal home appliances further expanding the network of synchronization in the real and the implied.
Alan S. Tofighi
Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, and video; Tofighi’s work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and formation of information to renegotiate narratives of history & power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters, social structures, myth, (dis)information, and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture. They have shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, Human Resources, The Horse Dublin, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, MOTOR, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet.
Nowhere Lab
This event is part of a series presented by the Nowhere Lab with interdisciplinary artist Alan S. Tofighi centered around the history of random number generation in Art, science, divination and zones where these histories meet.
Alan S. Tofighi will perform the composition Psychic Hold/Tychic Drift III: Memory Cone & Phantasms of the Living Room for PEAR REG, alpha wave, electronics, and home appliances. Throughout the piece events, musical, electronic, and mechanical will be activated and made visible by the otherwise invisible synchronization between the performer and the random event generator. Modular synths, motors, acoustical phenomena of the space, and other resonances will be performed throughout the space and work. The events will be connected and chained to a series of Logic systems revealing and subverting their own network for a telematic improvisation on spectres and the spectral.
Participants form the workshop are invited to perform as the Psychic Drift Ensemble bringing their random event generators and personal home appliances further expanding the network of synchronization in the real and the implied.
Alan S. Tofighi
Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, and video; Tofighi’s work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and formation of information to renegotiate narratives of history & power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters, social structures, myth, (dis)information, and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture. They have shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, Human Resources, The Horse Dublin, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, MOTOR, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet.
Nowhere Lab
This event is part of a series presented by the Nowhere Lab with interdisciplinary artist Alan S. Tofighi centered around the history of random number generation in Art, science, divination and zones where these histories meet.
Also included in this program:
https://www.indexical.org/events/2025-04-11-nowherelab-x-indexical-workshop-ast-pear-enclosed-anomalous-inference-receiver