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DEMILIT scours landscapes for quotidian connections between spaces, objects, individuals, and authority. Founded in 2010, initially to participate in the Just Metropolis Conference at UC Berkeley, Demilit is Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, and Javier Arbona. They are based most of the year in the San Francisco Bay Area. Demilit also works in Puerto Rico (Javier’s national origins). In addition, the trio works with various collaborators on specific projects, performances, and improvisations. Demilit is a playful collaboration focused on walking, exploring, listening, and experimenting. All three members frequently work in public or higher education with other architects and artists.
The group produces work that encompasses audio pieces, visuals, events, texts, web memes, and more, drawing from architecture, sound art, creative writing, geography and other fields. At its inception, Demilit was especially interested in the politics of archiving and knowledge dissemination, an area that continues to inform its work. New projects in development focus on surveillance and place.
Venues for activities have included the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the San José Biennial, UCSD University Art Gallery, Other Cinema, and Deutschlandradio.
Selected Works
(In)visible Sites, Timing is Everything, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, October 3-December 6, 2013.
Terra Incognita, The New City Reader: Puzzles, no. 03, Istanbul Design Biennial, 2012. | Biennial: Link | COMPLETE text: PDF & HTML
They Came to the Desert and Were Consumed by a Flickering Fortress, The State, Vol. ii: Speculative Geographies, 2012
A Voice That Lingers Forever in the Bowels of Missile Silos, Headlands Center for the Arts, Desire Trails: Curated Walking Tours of the Marin Headlands, Sunday September 25, 2011. | info/photos
SF91-L Gravelator, Assembled sounds. 8 minutes, 44 seconds, Newcomer Werkstatt on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Air date: June 24, 2011. | link
Rip It. Bomb It. Post It. Tag It: #BombTheDrone (web meme) | link
In The Fortress of Eden, a sound recording at Jeppsen, CIA rendition flight contractors: http://www.archive.org/details/Jeppesen
Paper drones (paper kit, several locations): http://demilit.tumblr.com/post/20124099273/untitled-paper-drones-march-16-2011
Some Relevant Articles
Footprinting Secrecy, Volume, number 36, Summer 2013. PDF
Arbona: Journey to the transnational narcopolitical city (Domus) | Architecture’s avatars (AA’s Fulcrum) | VLO Charter (Studio X)
Sowers: for Frieze & Atlantikwall soundscape in Places
Finoki: Double Zero (Domus) | Weaponized Architecture (the Funambulist) | Tunneling Borders (openDemocracy)
Collective: Prologue to Un Atlas, Spanish translation of An Atlas of Radical Cartography, forthcoming.
The DARPA High/Mentor/Make Magazine chronicles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Teaching
Land, Place, and Visuality, betalocal, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2013, link
Architecture and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Oakland, California. Javier Arbona, Adjunct Professor.
Woodbury University School of Architecture, San Diego, California. Bryan Finoki, Adjunct Faculty.
San Francisco Bay Area Urban Field Studies 2012, UC Berkeley. Javier Arbona, link.
Graduate Housing Studio, Cornell University, Spring 2009. Javier Arbona, Visiting Critic.
College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, 2007, Bryan Finoki, Visiting Critic
Past Events
Detour La Jolla, University Art Gallery, UCSD, October 5, 2013.
Terra Incognita, The Public School, Oakland CA, May 4, 2013.
Decoding Military Landscapes, UC Berkeley, June 18, 2010. link
Demilit San José, Works Gallery, San José, September 16, 2010. link & link
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