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Joseph Matheny’s Ong’s Hat Complete, a combined text and audio book, was excellent, and I loved how he mixed the two media.
– Orbific
Incredible story behind one of the pioneers of the internet. The interviews are EXCELLENT! What a great idea to have an audio component! This is an important documentation of early internet history. I highly recommend it!
–Michael Kennedy
Ong’s Hat Compleat is a monumental document of a ground-breaking, multidisciplinary, intermedial artwork. Oft cited but rarely understood, Ong’s Hat was the last great simulation of the twentieth century and the first fantastical rabbit hole of the twenty-first. Its influence continues to resonate today with all manner of sci-fi, ARG, reality-switching and remote viewing projects walking – consciously or not – in its footsteps. Now, with Ong’s Hat Compleat Joseph Matheny and Sequoyah Kennedy have produced the definitive record, a conversation and archive that takes you on the deepest dive possible into the Mariana Trench of 1990s counterculture, cyberculture, mail-art, living books, chaos magic and beyond. Equal parts podcast, seance and dossier, Ong’s Hat Compleat opens up the world of its subject in a way that enhances, rather than dissolves its mysterious aura. An essential purchase for anyone wanting to take a sidereal step out of this century and its troubled times.
—James Riley, University of Cambridge, author of The Bad Trip and Well Beings.
If you’re feeling stuck in a creative project spend a few hours with Sequoia and Joe. Incredible things might happen.
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Published @ November 12, 2024 11:10 pm