Minoy is a rescue operation with several life rafts. Minoy-the-book provides an introduction and overview to the important noise music artist Minoy - the pseudonym of American electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (1951-2010). Minoy's audio compositions, often conjuring up an enigmatic world of almost dreadful depth, earned him a key position in the homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. Minoy-the-CD+cassette+mp3s (available HERE) makes available nine of Minoy's audio compositions that span the years 1985 to 1993. These were drawn from recently...

Joseph Nechvatal's epic passion poem, Destroyer of Naivetes, takes up a position of excess from within a society that believes that the less you conceal, the stranger you become. We live and love in a culture where surveillance/intrusion is tied to our drive for self-revealing everything (an anti-private-life culture of curiosity, egotism, solitude, fear, voyeurism, exhibitionism and resentment - where the feeling is that nothing could or should remain unknown to us). The sex farce poetic overindulgence of Destroyer of Naivetes takes inspiration from the books of Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp's...