The Brown Line: Unknown Art

Unknown MP3s
Audiophile-quality recordings of individual scenes from live readings, meta-tagged according to cutting-edge ALA standards. You can download a compressed ZIP file of all MP3s and play them on shuffle (or really in any sequence) to create your own hypertext.

Radio Free Unknown (streaming audio)
Seven hours of Unknown live readings and carefully staged reenactments on Brown Student Radio. Listen to part 1
Listen to part 2
Listen to part 3
Listen to part 4

Unknown Performance Videos

Brown University
Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature Conference
Providence, Rhode Island: April 7-9, 1999

Columbia College
September 25, 2008

Kafka Parable: Frank (Quicktime Movie)
Scott and William exposed Frank's embarrassing, tragic, pathetic life in a one-minute movie produced on location in Brigantine Island, New Jersey.

Katie Gilligan’s Watercolor Diaries
Katie Gilligan recorded her thoughts in the form of a watercolor a day.

The Blue Cards
Back in the day, the Unknown used to get together and execute highly-structured collaborative writing games the way a blackbelt might chop a cinderblock in half with the edge of his hand: just to stay in practice.

Purple Splices
Dirk wrote a postcard a day for the month of July, 1998, during which month he was driving from Cincinnati to Seattle to Reno and back again. This is a poem worthy of study.

Re: Take It or Leave It
Raymond Federman in the nude. Text by Larry McCaffery. Links by the Unknown.