VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny Vayse

VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny - Show Notes


Some rare art transcends reality, some even rarer art seems to create a new reality altogether - the work of Joseph Matheny does both of these things while embracing the trickster spirit inherent in the magickal traditions in which his work has its roots.


Joseph talks to Hine and Buckley about Ong's Hat, his "living book" project, widely recognised as the first Alternate Reality Game, and how it took on a life of it's own, not only for the people who were playing it but also for the people who created it. The conversation also turns to synchronicity and how his recent work, the Liminal Cycle, seems to generate synchronicity in the lives of those who engage with it, how his work connects so closely to magick, nature and theatre, his experiences in the North Pole and how they affected his writing, the use of magic in political systems and how the internet we know and love (to hate) today retains the legacy of the ritual magicians and DnD enthusiasts who created it... (recorded 7 February 2024)


Thanks to Joseph for his time and thanks, as always, to Keith for the excellent show notes, you can hit him up on on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social


Joseph Matheny online


Website
Official Archive of the Ong’s Hat Project
Ong’s Hat website
YouTube channel
Twitter/X
Instagram
Substack
Facebook
Goodreads page
IMDb page


Hine and Buckley’s Intro


Neuralink - Wikipedia
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip in human - The Guardian
True Detective (Season 1) - Wikipedia
Ong’s Hat - Wikipedia
Ong's Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version) by Joseph Matheny (Audiobook) - Soundcloud
Ong's Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version) by Joseph Matheny - Goodreads
Alternate reality game (ARG) - Wikipedia
QAnon - Wikipedia
January 6 United States Capitol attack - Wikipedia
Pizzagate conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
Gamification in Politics: how does it influence Political Participation? by Elena Giordano - Medium
Liminal (The Liminal Cycle) by Cameron Whiteside (Joseph Matheny) - Goodreads
Xen: The Zen of the Other (The Liminal Cycle) by Ezra Buckley (Joseph Matheny) - Goodreads
Statio Numero (The Liminal Cycle) by Joseph Matheny, Jason Nunes (Illustrator) - Goodreads


Joseph’s early background in tech


Early Personal Computers, 1970s-1980s - Museums Victoria
Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite - ZDNET
Berkeley Macintosh User Group - Wikipedia
Steve Wozniak - Wikipedia
ARPANET - Wikipedia
Dial-up Internet access - Wikipedia
Bulletin board system - Wikipedia
Email - Wikipedia
The History of Email: Digging Into the Past, Present, and Future - Email On Acid
Pony Express - Wikipedia


Joseph’s epiphany


High Frontiers magazine - Anarchivism
High Frontiers Issue #1 - Archive.org
Modem - Wikipedia
The WELL - Wikipedia
Dialer - Wikipedia
Apple Inc. - Wikipedia
Silicon Valley: How a Bunch of Hippies Changed the World - Techovedas


Joseph’s ‘living book’ art project


Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Wikipedia
Ceremonial magic - Wikipedia
Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) - Wikipedia
The worlds of technology and magic are closer than you think - Dazed
Swiss Army knife - Wikipedia
This is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière - Goodreads
Nick Herbert (physicist) - Wikipedia
Bulletin board system (BBS) - Wikipedia
How Psychedelics Helped Shape Modern Technology - Psychedelic Spotlight
Mycelium - Wikipedia


Magic is theatre; theatre is magic


Live action role-playing gamer (LARP) - Wikipedia
Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) - Wikipedia
Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses - Language is a Virus
Arthur Rimbaud - Wikipedia
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
John Dee - Wikipedia
Enochian magic - Wikipedia
Enochian (language) - Wikipedia
Watchtower (magic) - Wikipedia
Scrying - Wikipedia
"Spirit mirror" used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the A