Jeremy JF Thompson / Mashinka Firunts

Autotypographer, Jeremy James Thompson, was born in Los Angeles. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts Degree in the discipline of Poetics at Mills College. He currently functions as the Stein Scholar, studying, teaching and printing, at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. His work focuses on the process of collaboration, the reinvention of propaganda, and the defining of a practical avant-garde. He admires the following actions and attributes of the following people: the culinary revolution(s) & lead type miracles of F.T. Marinetti, Vladimir Mayakovski's mechanical optimism: his uncompromising roulette, John Cage: the music in his silence & the words on his music, Joan Retallack's unintelligibility & tolerance for ambiguity, William Moor's hopeful futility: his attempts not to make art, Antonin Artaud's enslavement of attention, the Language Movement's resistance of the transcendental word, the soft defiance of Juliana Spahr's new Lyricism, the playful seriousness of Gertrude Stein, the Situationists & their situations, the almost concrete mysticism of Fanny Howe, Chuang Tzu: his contradictions & masquerades, El Lissitzky & the magic of the eye's imbalance, Kurt Schwitters as the harbinger of one-man movements & the Merz to prove it, the enduring contortion of Masami Akita: how he fits into a single idea, the manufactured sense & proliferated meaning(s) of Bruce Andrews, Edwin Torres's charged control of size, space & sound, & finally (for now), the Autographographer's intrigue with language, that dimensionless superannuated machine we perpetually retrofit for the future. Jeremy James Thompson lives in Astoria, New York with his wife & collaborator, Mashinka Firunts. They continually work together on endless segments of what he considers his greatest endeavor, Aeromance: The artifacts of an Interdisciplinary Love Affair.