User:Daniel C. Boyer~metawiki

I am a surrealist painter (in gouache [including gouache on rubber] and blacklight paint); cartoonist and maker of chocolate coulages; cubomanias; depliages; drawings (including entopic graphomanias), including those done with pen and ink, permanent and non-permanent marker, pencil (including mechanical pencil) and coloured pencil, invisible ink, Tide pen and yes-no pen; drawings done on Crayola Color Wonder paper, mildewed paper and paper with staples, fumages, a parsemage, stencils, ASCII art, and chewing gum works. I have made two films, The Dead Man and The Erotic Life of the Eskimo, a watch in honour of An Jung-geun (published by Idealist Press International, Ltd.), and a computer desktop design.

Two of my articles, "Are You Crazy?: Mental Illness and Whiteness" and "Seattle 1999 - Just the Beginning," and one of my drawings, "The Breakfast Club," were published in Surrealist Subversions, edited and introduced by Ron Sakolsky. Another of my drawings, "Afghanistan," appeared in All the days After: Crticial Voices in Poetry and Artwork, an anthology edited by the Upsidedownculture Collective. My marker and sandstone drawing The Reluctant Bride and my recto and verso pen-and-ink on Eaton's Corrasable Bond The Lowest Moment is included in the online surrealist magazine Par*faite. I was a contributor to the Treatise of Pataphysical Anatomy, published by SpiderWeb Productions. I am the author of the broadside poem "Blair House" (illustrated by Allison Boyer) and the book The Octopus Frets: political poems (published in 1994) and The Tailgating Spinster (published in 2003 by Fiji Island Mermaid Press). I designed the cover for the e-book Chapter 1 of the Anemone Sidecar (published by Ravenna Press), and you can see my digital book Me: An Autobiography at the Fiji Island Mermaid Press website.

I have also been active in mail art, having been listed in the International Directory of Artistamp Creators and had my work displayed at TIXE Gallery in New York. Since 2002 I have served as the Chief Executive Officer of the International Union of Mail Artists. My artistamp "Essay for Sierra Leone 2001" appeared in Correo del Sur.

My bookplate was exhibited at the Ex Libris exhibit at the HUB Gallery in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

When I attended Colorado College I worked on the Catalyst and wrote a review of an exhibit by Alexandra Nechita. I also designed a poster for the screening of L'Age d'Or there.

I received a BA from Curry College, where I took a class in Digital Imaging: Photoshop (AC 2738), two of the computer graphics I made in partial fulfillment of the requirements of which were The Scalpeles History White-clothed Like a Dove and with Three Owls and the Alas Poor Yorick! background of the page on which my article (originally printed in the Currier Times, of which I was the Arts and Entertainment editor), "Curry Hockey Skids" is reprinted. I was a participant in the Hexa Web Net Project, part of the 2nd Biennial of Media Art, Media City, Seoul, Korea.

In 1997 I curated the "Surrealism: Books, Objects, Posters and Pamphlets from Four Continents" exhibit at the East Library and Information Center in Colorado Springs. In 2003 I signed a petition protesting the pending sale of the contents of Andre Breton's studio at 42 rue Fontaine in Paris.

I wrote on the surrealist implications of the Pyschedelic Furs' music: "The War Against Mrs. London is Still On".

I have collaborated with other surrealists, having made an unnamed computerized exquisite corpse with Zazie (in the Special Editions section of the website, on which I have the artwork A Plan For Armaments 1932) and a computerized exquisite corpse, The Transparent Gulags Melt Before the Very Sharp Blade of the Figure-Skating Wode and the Funerals of Two Senators Take Place not Very Far from the Cottager's Home, with Willem den Broeder; and signed collective surrealist statements including "For Tyree Guyton" and "POETRY MATTERS!: On the Media Persecution of Amiri Baraka."

I contributed a drawing to the Picasso e-book, commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Pablo Picasso in 2001.

It was at my suggestion that Blue Feathers SE2, a special edition on the events of September 11, 2001 was published.

I have a websites on SITO and at Artmajeur.com.

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Artwork by Daniel C. Boyer