Linear Arrangements, More Effects From Our Primordial Constraints

by Lanny Quarles

I absolutely love these works, which for me fall between my two favorite "concrete" poets, John Furnival and Dom Sylvester Houedard —both of whom also worked with fundamental lettering. But Quarles' code strikes deeper, since it is an effected one; it carries the same archaeology as cuneiform—strokes, layers, countries, languages, intermingled, interspersed. These pieces could be tablets whose coding speaks, however troubled, to countries beyond us. I think of our languaging (in relation to Xerolage 36) as imminent, momentary; I think of these works as simultaneously bound to a particular instance of coding (ascii, Internet), and smeared or parcelled among other frames, cultures, organisms. I've always admired the baroque, even mannerist, quality of Quarles' style, which comes to fruition here on the printed page.

—Alan Sondheim

This looks really interesting, would be even more interesting in print I'm sure. Printed or etched on silicon. Like a billboard up close its breaking down imagery into fundamental units of on of, squinty pixels. And I remember the pictures he is talking about at fairs and where not, where they would "print" your pictures on a dot matrix printer. The influence of his work as a photolithographer shows as well.

—Derek White

24 pages, 8.5 X 11 Mimeo Book

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

I am a writer and Visual Artist.


Lanny Ray Quarles

Born 1967 Wichita Falls, Tx

EDUCATION

Midwestern State University
University of Texas at Arlington
Heald College, AAS Electronics, 1998
Autodidact




PUBLICATIONS

Voices, student poetry and literature magazine, 1987, “The Motorcycles of Old Tangier”

Toenail Gazook, 1990’s, one of a kind hand-made books sold through Factsheet 5 magazine, and at Reading Frenzy, and traded for other artist’s books through mail.

Pink, Gus Van Sant, Doubleday, 1997, my writing is the script written by one of the characters in Gus Van Sant’s first novel.

“Sargasso and Spandex”, “Youngblood’s Court de Walg”, Eyes Monthly, Issue I, September, 2006

“The Specificity of Dreams..”, Wegway No 4, Fall 2002

“Masque of the Read Death(po)..”, images and writing, XTANT4, anabasis.xtant 2004

Austrian magazine Perspektive's feature avantgarde / under / net / conditions:
“____Bliss Language”, translated into German, perspektive 43 + 44, 2002
“form miming meaning”, published under the name Solipsis, perspektive 42, 2001-2002

Untitled concrete prose, XTANT3, anabasis xtant, 2003

“redbon”, “volgarestornelli”, Whitewall of Sound Number 35, Northwest Concrete & Visual Poetry, CD, edited by Nico Vassilakis

“’Zakki-Cho’ in Tree.” Lost and Found Times, No. 50, May 2003

“PEACETALKSATURNALIA (made to rest in the petalcalco)”, Poems for Peace, structum press, 2003

“Tangled Networks and Wrong Numbers”, Cyanobacteria International, Espoo, Finland, 1994

“Tzadik to Golem, Come in Golem!”, “The Black Pineapple SS”,
Abraham Lincoln #1

“The Radiation of the Golden Armor of the Werewolf Knights (The Curse of Waldemar of Oregon)”, Shampoo, A Poetry Magazine, Issue 27, http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooT...

"veracious mirrored war woe", Big Bridge, Issue 12, http://www.bigbridge.org/deathlquarle...

“Redistribution of Emerson's Brahma”, Milk Magazine, http://www.milkmag.org/quarles7.html

Realpoetik

“Untitled”, Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness E-Journal
Volume 1: No. 3, 2003, http://www.wickedness.net/ejv1n3/quar...

Several poems spotlighted on Leevi Lehto's Get a Google Poem

Various Issues of Florian Cramer’s Unstable Digest as performed on
the NETTIME e-mailing list.
“My Eye Is a Twisted Skinless Dolphin Lyre”, The Hamiltonstone Review http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr9poet...

DIGITAL ARTWORK PUBLICATIONS

“shunned publicity”, digital collage, Word for Word a jounal of new writing #3, Winter 2003, http://www.wordforword.info/vol3/Quar...

Selection of 10 digital collages, The Internation Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, http://collagemuseum.com/lannyquarles...


“Iconspace”, Black Ice Magazine on Alt-X
http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives...

Apotropaic Series #1 Black Ice Magazine, (non-functional)
http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives...

“Cadmon”, “Bopp1”, “XX1A”, “Cusanos”, “Kekule”, “Ukol”, Extreme Graphics, edited by Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco, Dimensional Illustrators, Inc., 1998

“theredsheep”, Cover Design & CD Design (uncredited), Northwest Edge The End of Reality,Chiasmus Press, Portland, 2005

Mail art project contributor, Spoliations involving deliberate destruction or alternation of a document, January 2003

“chaonamevispo”, Spidertangle the book: a coincidental miscellany of now vispo, Xexoxial Editions 2002

Wegway No 5, Spring 2003, found web image and textual manipulation

Asemic Magazine 3, Australia, 2004, asemic writing

“Codon 13”, “Green X”, The Little Magazine, 2006, animated gif images using various digital technologies.

The Little Magazine
http://www.albany.edu/~litmag/work/cu...