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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 19

Agentic Flurry of Dissembles
Ink and marker on paper
10 by 7
7.19.25

#agentic #inaction #lies #hallucinations #dissembling #motion #fury #drawing #inkonpaper #markerdrawing #nycartist

Ink and marker drawing of a twisted up face

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 17

Flight of the anonymous from the unnameable

Ink on paper
7.16.25

#precariot #history #drawing #unnameable #inkonpaper

Ink drawing of unidentified people fleeing down a beach from an incendiary event in the distance

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Courtroom procession
Ink of paper
7.11.25

Scenes of closely embracing asylum seekers, lawyers, advocates, attacked, illegally extracted by masked, anonymous ice agents, hope it's burned into our collective consciousness, history

#inkdrawing #immigrationcourt #26federalplaza #ice #extrajudicial

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just received some work back from a 2009 show in Philadelphia. Here is a drawing, white ink on black paper,

Shitzu v. Cockapoo
9 x 12 inches

made when I was visiting the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art a lot, trying to engender these pups with the furious spirit of Nepalese demi-gods.

#drawing

Detail of White ink drawing on black paper, furious dogs fighting one another, stylized with flame like fur and visages inspired by tibetan or Nepalese Buddhist paintings

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Mythic fascist fighters turning ranks with fists and sour japes

#fight #fascists #ice #rink #ink #fighters #myth

Reposted by Brian Zegeer

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Jul 5

Three opposition mayors arrested in Turkey. The present-day fascists are all working from the same script.
Drei oppositionelle Bürgermeister in der Türkei festgenommen
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Türkei: Drei oppositionelle Bürgermeister in der Türkei festgenommen

Erneut hat die türkische Polizei Politiker der Oppositionspartei festgenommen, wegen Korruptionsverdacht. In Adana protestierten daraufhin Menschen gegen die Regierung.

www.zeit.de

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jul 5

Floral eruptions, confusions, extrusions, protestations, and lamentations over the past week.

Ink and marker on paper
4 by 6 inches

Sketchbook gifted by @bigtov. Thankyou!
#flowers #moods #dreamflowers #moodflowers #markerdrawing #ink #paper #sketchbook

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 28

Your gold is rot. Your shimmer is mud, satellites blind, surveillance choked. Riches broken and strewn across the floor to turn your ankles and scatter your thoughts.

Ink on paper
10 by 7
6.27.25

#noriches #criminalizewealth #nobillionaires #inkdrawing #workaonpaper

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Social welfare state protein farm collective commune Goldilocks-zone exo-planet utopian AI cult

Mark you calendars, we're here in 20 years. Thank me later.

(Heavily ripping off #mickey17)

#plans #thefuture #drawing #inkonpaper #goldilocks #exoplanet

Ink drawing of group of people lifting giant grub, insect within east smokey alien landscape

Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Convocation of the church of Ohm

The standard unit of resistance against backslide slide into venal, mercenary politics.

Go @zohrankmamdani !!!

Go @alexaforcouncil !!!

#inkdrawing #resistance #ohm #democraticsocialist #democracy #peoplepower #election #primary

Ink drawing of crowded parade scene with rolling towers, moving off into the distance

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Synchronized units of exploited labor stack
Ink on paper
10 by 7 inches
6.23.25

#labor #synchronized #capitalism #drawing #ink #battery #energy

Ink drawing with stacked legs in endless column

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Biological computing advances accelerate evolutionary winnowing, unbroken loop of authoritarian control. Billionaires in your biome?

Here I am in moral panic mode after a fluff piece in @tedxgateway

Induced Pluripotent stem cells
Cg animation
2025

#stemcells #control #biologicalcomputing #cganim

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ridge and gulley
Some Floating landscapes

Marker drawings on paper
6.17.2025

#markerdrawing #floatingworld #waterfall #catskills

Marker drawing of waterfall with overlapping lines

Marker drawing of umber tree leaning under strong wind

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 17

Tactical EmpAthy Release (T.E.A.R.)
For publicly-traded corporate persons

6.16.25

#corporatepersonhood #empathy #strategic #greenwashing #drawing #inkonpaper #capitalism #soulless

Ink drawing of helmeted figure with single horn extruded from forehead that drips a single tear.

Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Substrate Dependence

I can't imagine the issue of "alignment" , AGI reliably compliant with human interests, being solved without grounding the intelligence to a mortal, tender body. How can a floating, immortal agency ever sympathize with our sad human condition?

Ink drawing of shirtless figure facing away from viewer and walking into the woods.

Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 13

Swivelneck attention age
6.12.25

#drawing #shockandawe #attention #split #overload #inkdrawing

Ink drawing of individual with eyes doubling to look in many directions at once, mouth silenced.

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thankyou!

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Cataract

A drawing made last Friday in the #sunsetpark water park with a bunch of kids, occasional water spritz reactivating marker flow, a charming trickster collaborator.

Ink and marker on paper
10 by 7
6.6.25

#collaborator #aleatory #drawing #trickster #marker #ink #drawing

Marker drawing of abstracted waterfall, purple bands, ink lines

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Bubble sort array, drawing for animation

Marker drawing
10 by 7
6.5.2025

#drawing #markerdrawing #landscape #spring #markerdrawing #array

Landscape drawing, repeated fronds, bubbles, arms going off into the landscape

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · Jun 1

The reader

This began as a study of my daughter's reading posture at the library, total rapt attention, as compared to strained posture of forced reading comprehension exercises for state tests, which have strained her love for pure absorption in story.

Ink drawing of reader succumbing to sorrow when reading news

Reposted by Brian Zegeer

Internet Archive @archive.org · May 28

🚨 Our new podcast—Future Knowledge—is coming June 4th, but the teaser episode is out now!

🗣️ Get a sneak peek at what’s ahead: conversations on digital culture & the future of knowledge. Co-hosted with @authorsalliance.bsky.social.

🎧 Listen & subscribe: archive.org/details/futu...

#Podcast

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · May 23

Sensorum laid bare

Ink on paper
10 by 7
5.22.25

#sensorium #senses #inkdrawing #body #unbodied #disembodied

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · May 22

Culture, red of mouth and maw

Ink and marker on paper
10 by 7 inches
5.21.25

#culture #spin #violence #speech #politics #drawing #worksonpaper #mouth #maw

Marker drawing, closeup of monstrous face with many tangled tongues

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · May 21

Adapted to the churn

Ink on paper
10 by 7
5.20.25

#churn #adaptation #chaosloop #reality #drawing #ink #inkonpaper

Ink drawing of human-fish hybrid in fetal position moving through undersea currents

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Brian Zegeer @zegeer.bsky.social · May 19

secreting past histamine triggers into new climes
cg animation
2025

#bubbles #pods #eggs, #birth #sphere #growth #spring #histamine #climes #infiltration #allergens #blender3d #animation #cganimation

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