1. SO... WHO ARE YOU? TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF! SOME CORE OF TRUTH WOULD BE NICE, BUT PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BE COLOURFUL…

Vaughan
piercings
sleeps in a safe
writes, paints (sometimes), sound design, sculpture, makes silly noises when bored
graphic design course... background in networking and computer tweaking in general
(my case has an ammeter hooked to the harddrive access led pins... and old suitcase leather around the whole thing, in homage to those cool old (70's?) appliances in leather cases- cameras, radios...)

2. WHAT DOES POLIS MEAN TO YOU, IF ANYTHING? GO ON, GUESS, EXTRAPOLATE...

the source/home of most of the interesting conversations 1 have these days... extrapolation of the oldest/bestest ideas in the 1'm-bored-now-what-do-1-do category
with the exception of a few authors (burroughs, ballard, egan...) no media 1 see appeals very much, so 1 started trying to make some
mostly its incentive to continue this process of self exploration and entertainment, and be entertained in turn

3. DO YOU HAVE ANY PARTICULAR INTEREST IN VIRTUAL REALITY/VIRTUAL WORLDS, OR GENERAL THEMES/DEPICTIONS OF URBAN SPACE?

interesting ideas in ones head need some communication medium to propagate- -virtual world, whatever mainly 1 like dystopia's

4. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE AN ARTIST, EITHER PRINCIPALLY OR AMONG OTHER THINGS?

artist has socially constructed baggage that annoys sometimes, but 1 still use the term when 1 can't be bothered explaining myself in detail

5. IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST, DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS FOR ART WORKS (OBJECTS, ACTIONS, WHATEVER) THAT WOULD EXPLORE POLIS THEMES OR IDEAS?

ha, what exactly are these 'themes or ideas'? I like to make and see cool stuff, 1 will continue pursuing that aim - otherwise 1'm just feeding my reptile brain's desires, dulldulldull

6. WHAT ARTFORMS DO YOU CONSIDER MIGHT BE RELEVANT OR OF INTEREST TO POLIS?

oh, everything. : ) keep exploring. woodcarving.... solidified odor sculptures personally, 1 like word and image, and this looks to be feeding into 3d & video too...

10. IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT PLACE DOES ORGANISED LINEAR MUSIC HAVE IN POLIS SOUNDSCAPES, IF ANY?

do what the fuck you want to - me, 1'm interested in conveying a scene with the addition of sound.... 1 like 'music' too... 1 might try and make some...

11. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN THE POLIS MANIFESTO? DO YOU THINK THE MANIFESTO SHOULD BE TEXT ONLY? MULTIMEDIA? SUGGESTIVE OR EXPLICIT?

Yes.

12. NAME ONE THINKER (OR DOER) WHO YOU FEEL SHOULD BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO POLIS? HELL, NAME A BUNCH OF THEM IF YOU LIKE...

WSBurroughs, JGBallard, Diamanda Galas, Ned Ludd

13. DOES POLITICS HAVE ANY PLACE IN POLIS?

well, Prokop Ambruon seems to be making a push for the office of Nochonterasu, if its fun, its fun....... Americans bother me (not the citizens so much as the ruling body which seems to need oil like a lion needs meat, and the whole ingrained hypocrisy thing)

14. DO YOU THINK THERE SHOULD BE A DEDICATED POLIS WEBSITE, OR A DISTRIBUTED NET? OR BOTH? OR SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE?

archive stuff. communicate stuff.

15. DO YOU KNOW ANY PROGRAMMING/SCRIPTING LANGUAGES PARTICULARLY JAVA OR VRML? IF NOT, WOULD YOU LIKE SUPPORT IN LEARNING FROM MEMBERS OF POLIS?

meh. If 1 need it for a future aim

16. DO WE CARE ABOUT THINGS LIKE HACKING, AS A GROUP? SHOULD WE BE ENCRYPTED FOR ANY REASON?

it would be awkward for using cafe style machines.... otherwise its just cool, probably unnecessary (except to promote the use of), but still cool

17. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN TRANSHUMANISM, OR EVEN KNOW OR CARE WHAT IT IS?

actually how would you define it? wondering if there's some realworld rightnow applications..

18. DO YOU KNOW ANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE INTELLIGENT, CREATIVE, AND MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE POLIS GROUP? IF SO, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TELL THEM ABOUT US, TELL US ABOUT THEM, FORWARD THIS MAIL, WHATEVER SEEMS APPROPRIATE...

1 like the ideas of prostyletising (sp?) and will continue to try, however most of my attempts seem to be to pretty girls at parties... somehow the population sample is being skewed....

19. HAVE YOU SEEN "EVENT CITIES" 1 OR 2 BY BERNARD TSCHUMI (THEY'RE OBLIQUE ARCHITECTURE COFFEE-TABLE ART BOOKS)

nope, his site is interesting though - and you ask because....?

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