Doug Nufer writes prose, poetry, and works for performance using various procedures and restrictions. In 2004 three of his novels came out more or less at once: Never Again (Black Square), Negativeland (Autonomedia), and On the Roast (Chiasmus). Two years later his double novel The Mudflat Man/ The River Boys (soultheft) was published. His recent book is a collection of Oulipian poetry, We Were Werewolves (Make Now). His stories and/or poems have appeared in Fence, Chain, The Brooklyn Rail, Golden Handcuffs Review, and Bird Dog, and in performances with and without dancers or musicians. He lives in Seattle, where he runs a wine shop.
Performance artist, stand-up comic & “vocal acrobat” Zero Boy recounts his zany adventures in Zeroland through a unique blend of sound and mime, the results being something akin to a performed comic book. Combining movement with live, vocally-produced sound effects, Zero Boy enacts a parade of hilarious, fantastical characters that find themselves in the most unlikely situations.
From his New York base Zero Boy has written, directed & performed numerous productions on both coasts and Europe, working in traditional theater, stand up comedy, television, street performance festivals, radio, film, comic books, a national magazine, and on the cutting edge of digital media/art.
Has been heard regularly on NPR’s The Next Big Thing with Dean Olshar doing Stump Zero Boy and This Day in History with Zero Boy. Stump Zero Boy gave audience members a chance to commission a short-form radio cartoon. They email a 1-sentence scenario, involving as many strange and challenging elements as you can think and then Zero Boy creates live a vocal cartoon.
Lycaon Pictus are not a band. We are a pack of wild science wizards! Using future technology blended with sorcery we make things and stuff. Song technicians and sonar experimentalists, cyborg animal simulacrums, ghost whisperers, and more. Are we not half-men? We are Lycaon Pictus. “We will perform musical works of varying intensity using keyboards, bass, drums, and certain electronic devices. Perhaps an orgy will follow. Stay tuned.”
