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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦
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Art School Spawn.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · Nov 11
This is a wall #sculpture of my voice saying the word TIME. #soundimage
Tree shadows fall across a white wall sculpture of a soft folding mountain with texture in the sky that resembles clouds
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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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swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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
Close up of a carved glitch surface that looks similar to cuneiform clay tablets Open box with carved wooden blocks that looks like cuneiform clay tablet
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
Latest offering to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection #artsky #glitch #filmsky #experimental #movingimage #synthmusic #musicsky vimeo.com/1154516194
DROIDSdoITtoo
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is…
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January 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
lol. So good.
glennyrodge.bsky.social Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16d
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
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
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
NEUROsquirrels was part of a compilation album with #AlrealonMusique in #TheWire below the radar some time ago
#neurodivergence #auadhd #movingimageart #newmedia #artsky #filmsky #musicsky #analogsynthsounds

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NEUROSQUIRRELS 2025
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is…
vimeo.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
Latest offering to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection #artsky #glitch #filmsky #experimental #movingimage #synthmusic #musicsky vimeo.com/1154516194
DROIDSdoITtoo
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is…
vimeo.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
#artsky #toronto #canadiancontemporaryart #soundimage
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · Nov 14
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.
Sound image of my voice speaking the word PSYCHO composed of dramatic curves and peaks. White wall sculpture with deep shadows and light.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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
Close up of a carved glitch surface that looks similar to cuneiform clay tablets Open box with carved wooden blocks that looks like cuneiform clay tablet
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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tabsout.bsky.social
4'33" is a Christmas song
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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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moma.bsky.social
Marcel Duchamp, Landscape, 1908
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135810
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I like this song:
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geese honking by videog
Several geese honking. Recorded outside amid a gaggle of geese on a Zoom H2 in 120* pattern. Might be other fowl noises (not loud) in background, can't remember what was around the geese. This is the ...
freesound.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
Perhaps the most internalized prejudices of most societies- “not me” othering based on fear and denial among other things, has to go.
davidmordecai.com David @davidmordecai.com · Dec 16
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.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Dec 16
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
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
@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
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
#artsky #toronto #canadiancontemporaryart #soundimage
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · Nov 14
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.
Sound image of my voice speaking the word PSYCHO composed of dramatic curves and peaks. White wall sculpture with deep shadows and light.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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.
Sound image of my voice speaking the word PSYCHO composed of dramatic curves and peaks. White wall sculpture with deep shadows and light.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
#glitchvideoart #video #artsky
September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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adamlauder.bsky.social
🌃 🎶
Jon Gibson - Cycles
YouTube video by Vincent Mare
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November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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patrickkapty.bsky.social
Grasshopper carving
hematite
Old Babylonian
c. 1800-1700 BCE

#ancientculture #babylonia #1800BCE #carved #carving #hematite #grasshopper #carvedstone #ancientart #art #weight #measure #trade #bronzeage #marketplace
What sort of object might this be? The material and compact, pan-friendly form point toward a trade weight rather than a toy or ornament. From the late third to early second millennium BC, Mesopotamian merchants and administrators favored hematite for weights because it is dense, tough, and hard to tamper with. Many weights were simple cylinders, but animal shapes also circulated in the Bronze Age marketplace. Surviving sets show the spectrum from plain barrel forms to ducks and frogs, all meant to sit steadily on a balance pan.
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
Self explanatory.
Hand holding up a round button the has concentric red outer ring, white middle ring and blue-black centre circle. A red stripe with text that says “censorstop”
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
#artsky finished. Some quick snaps in different light.
Grey relief sculpture in sunlight with a garden background. Curved and pointed shapes adorn the surface, suggesting mountains or waves Dark grey relief sculpture in sunlight on a shelf with small paintings on blocks in the background. Curved and pointed shapes adorn the surface, suggesting mountains or waves
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
#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