Interactive Media for Occult Book Makers

{Here are the slides and transcript of my presentation at the 2013 Esoteric Book Conference. Some of the images were found online and used without permission; in all such instances, I have supplied links to the pages bearing the images as I found them. The process of exporting the slides as images messed up the typeface on the few text slides I have, but at least they’re legible. Click here to go straight to the final slide, which includes a list of books, articles, and videos to consult for additional information about several of the subjects presented.

Here is one review of the conference and presentation; my thanks to the author.}

Joshua Madara oscillates between mystery and mechanism as he explores the intersection of ritual magic and digital media. He is concerned about the loss of magical thinking in technological culture, and he wonders whether high technology can verily improve magical praxis, or if it is merely a cyberskin for the old ceremony. He designs mixed- and multimedia sketches demonstrating occult practices mediated by new technologies, and he writes, lectures, consults, and teaches about these subjects. He is an amateur cybernetician, avid chaos magician, and advocate for hacker and maker culture. He lives here in Seattle with his fantastically brilliant daughter, Chloe.

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