Timothy Ely, Coil , 2005, Drum leaf binding with black leather spine; pastepaper endleaves; text in ink on paper. This unique manuscript drawn between New York City, Colorado Springs, and Colfax, tracks the labs, events, and cycles of Nikola Tesla.
Have you noticed toady’s Google search image paying homage to the techno-counter-cultural icon Nikola Tesla? Today is his birthday (thanks canuck for the reminder). Timothy Ely’s inspired work above beautifully narrates Tesla’s haunting legend and continued mystique electrically interwoven into techno lore. Airtight Games homage to Tesla (and insertion of his character into the gameplay’s narrative) in their newly released game, “Dark Void” carries his legend forward to a new generation of gamers and techies. Though here they’ve rendered him closer to David Bowie’s character in Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film The Prestige. But then, who other than Bowie could pull off such hauntology and pastiche? Nikola Tesla haunts his disciples across electrical currents and unbounded time. Happy haunting Nikola.
Nikola Tesla, "Dark Void" by Airtight Games
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