Netherzone

[Dave Monroe]

On 12/27/07, Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> A-and why is the whole thing written as questions?!
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 10:32 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wednesday, December 26, 2007
> > ARPANET Play
> >
> > The characters discuss the creative and subversive possibilities for
> > ARPANET, the prototype for the internet, in 1963, Southern California.
> >
> > Yves Fissiault, chief electrical engineer at Rockedyne, secret artist;
> > Mia L'amar, black-listed B-grade science fiction film star; Thomas
> > Pynchon, the writer before achieving fame while working as a tech
> > writer in the aerospace industry; and JCR Licklider, director of the
> > Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency
> >
> > YF: What might a history of light entail? ...
> >
> > http://netherzone.blogspot.com/2007/12/arpanet-play.html
> >
> > Pynchon recommendation letter, 1962. Letter of recommendation written
> > by Yves Fissiault on behalf of Thomas Pynchon, May 4, 1962....
> >
> > [Page Not Found]
> >
> > http://netherzone.blogspot.com/2007/12/pynchon-recommendation-letter-1962.html
> >
> > 1963, Manhattan Bach, California
> >
> > http://netherzone.blogspot.com/2007/12/pynchon-1963-manhattan-beach-photo-yves.html
> >
> > http://netherzone.blogspot.com/

>From Jennifer L. Riddell, "Parallel Histories: Eve Andree Laramee's A
Permutational Unfolding," Eve Andree Laramee: A Premutational
Unfolding, ed.
Jennifer L. Riddell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 7-24 ...

   The role that credibility and authority play, in and outside the
scientific context, was the impetus for a narrative installation work
entitled SECRET HISTORY: Yves Fissiault, Artist of the Cold War Era,
1997, an exhibition of paintings and experimental models by Fissiault
cuurated by Laramee ....  An aerospace engineer who worked in the U.S.
during the 1950s and 60s ... he maintianed a parallel existence as an
artist ....  Fissiault created paintings and experimental models whose
subject matter was optics and musical harmonics.  Furthermore, he also
had an abiding interest in the occult and alternative cosmologies,
particularly those focused on achievement of a utopic state....
   Eve Laramee had worked as a research assistant for Fissiault in the
area of comparative religion during her student days.  To her
surprise, in 1991 she inherited several suitcases and a steamer
trunk's worth of his artwork.... she eventually made a proposal to
curate an exhibition of Fissiault's work and artifacts at the Islip
Art Museum in East Islip, N.Y....  Laramee also conducted a public
lecture at the Islip Art Museum as the soberly-dressed curator of the
exhibition.
   No one found out during the course of the exhibition that Yves
Fissiault was Eve Laramee, who had created the name as a homonym of
her own, plus an old family name (Fissiault dit Laramee).  She had in
fact spent six months inhabiting the character of Fissiault as an
experiment in artistic identity .... The fiction of Fissiault's life
was inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel, The Crying of Lot 49.  The
novel's pritagonist, Pierce Inverarity, served as the model for
Fissiault, while Fissialut, within the narrative created by Laramee,
was the model for Inverarity.  Pynchon himself also figured in
Fissiault's biography--Yves used his connections to secure Pynchon a
technical writing job as Boeing (where Pynchon actually has worked).
(pp. 19-21)

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http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65454

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68817

But going way back ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26641

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26650

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26668

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26927

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26929

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9805&msg=26899

Thanks as always ...