★Influencing Machine Records
The Pain Factory - A Public Access Tv Show 1995-1997
Edition of 350. For about three decades, Michael Contreras has been one of the most consistently intriguing artists in the Industrial Noise scene, beginning under the name Trucido, then as Death Squad, and most recently as MK9. Anyone who has followed his prolific output through the years has recognized Contreras’ versatile use of multi-media elements, including text, photography, performance, and video. Another major piece of his body of work was almost lost, however, nearly forgotten since the…
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May 1, 1979 – G.X. Jupitter-Larsen introduced The Haters by way of a performance called Alluring at a small gallery in New York City, where Jupitter-Larsen lived at the time. In that performance, “Jupitter-Larsen
smashed up several video cassettes by hitting them repeatedly with a
video camera. The fractured videos still radiated images. Not by
television, but by entropy.” Forty years later, The Haters remains active—the recurring emanation of Jupitter-Larsen’s
polymathic mind. The Haters is…