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a.k.a. i. imro ciernobiely von bahnhof
a.k.a. alfons o.
a.k.a. The Minister of Words, Sports, and Tourism
a.k.a. The Great Device
a.k.a. Steve Kvartz, amateur

I am an amateur Canadian West Coast interdisciplinary amateur creative type of Slovak origin working in text, video, photography, electronic music, and social networking media, often taking lofi, mashup, and/or DIY approaches to undertake oblique intertextual studies of the themes of culture, cultural constructs, nostalgia, the everyday, history, hyperreality, the immigrant experience, myth-building, ideal-typical symbols, visualism, urbanism, and (the wide range of) utopias communicated through advertising, commerce, new technology, news, newsprint, real estate, reality TV, showbiz politics, television, tourism, and urban planning of post-Fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall postmodern late capitalism of the 1990s, and neoliberalism (and its “tyranny of happiness” showboating) of 2000s, 2010s (and now 2020s) in the Canadian far West Coast of North America, as embodied by the province of British Columbia.

I grew up partly on the western fringe of the Soviet Bloc, in the capital of the Slovak Socialist Republic (now the Slovak Republic), under a totalitarian Communist regime, and have lived and worked on the western fringe of Canada, on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, since immigrating and settling here in 1990.

I also found a home on the Internet, so you can also find me online on on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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