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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦
@swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
VISUAL ARTIST. SONIC EXPLORER.
Art School Spawn.
sound images degenerated video
Canadian Artist.
Human Rights. Climate Preservation. Birds Are People
Pinned
This is a wall #sculpture of my voice saying the word TIME. #soundimage
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Let Terry Riley gift us with drone now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCg...
Terry Riley - Two Dervishes - Live in Paris 11/19/1975
YouTube video by MinimalEffort
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January 20, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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It was 35 years ago today: @stevereich.bsky.social's 'The Four Sections / Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices, and Organ' was released on Nonesuch. You can hear it at stevereich.lnk.to/TheFourSecti...
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Future future ancient sort of art finally arrived! So thrilled… # DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME intermedia project beginnings #movingimage #intermedia #sculptureprintmaking #sculpture #3Dmovingimageart #artsky #mahogany #techspressionism many thanks to @woodshopcnc #janswinburne
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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lol. So good.
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Harold and Maude is one of those films that changed my life. I first saw it as a very depressed 16 year old. It opened up so many paths of nonconformity and openness at a time when there were still enormous pressures to fit into a box… resistance isn’t futile.
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Happy to share I’m the #RWMFEST artist in residence this Fall/Winter. The exhibition will be at Tangled Arts Vitrines 401 Richmond in February 2026.
Many thanks to Workman Arts and special mention to Fatma Hendawy for her curation and support of this project.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Future future ancient sort of art finally arrived! So thrilled… # DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME intermedia project beginnings #movingimage #intermedia #sculptureprintmaking #sculpture #3Dmovingimageart #artsky #mahogany #techspressionism many thanks to @woodshopcnc #janswinburne
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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4'33" is a Christmas song
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Been sick with a festive catarrh since Friday. Family has the flu. I was raised with Xmas & no longer care.But the tradition of family dinner remains important. So we’ll wait until New Years. But this cold is threatening a Boxing Day trip to Hamilton to pick up my rough CNC cut art
with a friend.🫤
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Perhaps the most internalized prejudices of most societies- “not me” othering based on fear and denial among other things, has to go.
Over time, as we age, most of us will become disabled to some degree. Disabled people are only a minority when a population skews towards youth. And disability is under-recognized because many of us see disability in terms of a pitiful "other" and will resist identifying our own challenges that way.
Anyone can become disabled.

Anyone can become chronically ill.

It’s not a choice. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.

You can be the healthiest person in the world & completely disabled in an instant.

It’s a minority group you can join anytime.
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@support.bsky.team if you click the video image it says it doesn’t exist, which is incorrect. If you click the title it takes you to the video. I have Vimeo allowed in external media settings. What gives?
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy to share I’m the #RWMFEST artist in residence this Fall/Winter. The exhibition will be at Tangled Arts Vitrines 401 Richmond in February 2026.
Many thanks to Workman Arts and special mention to Fatma Hendawy for her curation and support of this project.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Happy to share I’m the #RWMFEST artist in residence this Fall/Winter. The exhibition will be at Tangled Arts Vitrines 401 Richmond in February 2026.
Many thanks to Workman Arts and special mention to Fatma Hendawy for her curation and support of this project.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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🌃 🎶
Jon Gibson - Cycles
YouTube video by Vincent Mare
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November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Self explanatory.
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#artsky finished. Some quick snaps in different light.
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
#birds Having a bath in the bee bath. #whitethroatedsparrow I think. Well wishes for a safe migration to all birds.
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM