Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, and video; Tofighiâs work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and formation of information to renegotiate narratives of history & power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters, social structures, myth, (dis)information, and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture. They have shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, Human Resources, The Roxy, The Horse Dublin, LACE, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, MOTOR, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet.
As a performer/composer Tofighiâs music utilizes formal methodologies and histories to create works not beholden to either. Just intonation, otoacoustics, and performance, are deployed but conceptual grounding is central. Tofighi has performed with FaUSt, Juliettes with Dylan Lusetisch, Trio Ampliphonic, Scott Benzelâs V.I.T.R.I.O.L., CE/Safeteam with Isaac Aronson and Fernando Orellana, and various free Improv units since 2007.
Tofighi has also maintained AST Electronics since 2014 providing customized, circuitry and rapid development for artists & musicians and the AST Accursed Shared system, a cybernetic analogue computer designed to generate music systems via 16 non-standard forms of indeterminacy.
Tofighi received a BFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (BFA 16) an MFA in Art and Technology with a minor in Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 18).
Alan Saied Mendoza Tofighi
Born 1991 in Sylmar, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Art & Technology, Minor in Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 BFA Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2010-14 B.A. Marine biology, A.A. Music Composition and Media Entertainment Arts, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA (transferred)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Alan S. Tofighi Legal Fictions & Critical Bands (1993-2024,) Human Resources, Los Angeles
Mechanized & Manufactured Interiors: Hoarderâs Folly (2008-2???), The Horse, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Predictive Programming: Process(ion) of Voids and Mental Remnants (2013-2022), The Horse, Dublin
2021 Skip Tracing: Homunculi Physically & Computationally Grafted, MOTOR, Los Angeles
2018 A Survey of Ongoing Developments in Manufactured/Mechanized Interiors, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Presentation of Research on The Archives of the Hermeneutical Audio Concretization Center for Encrypted Polemics (HACCEP), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2017 Bottomless Vale of Tears: Effects of Random and Regulated Noise on Plant Growth No. 1 (2007-2017), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 Realization for the Unnameable and Unclaimable Aria/Potential Threnody for The Critical and Pre-Taxonomized, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 âThree New Lives for Electric Chairâ No. 1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 Listening Party No.2, the Opening Reception for simultaneous cybernetic DJ Sets, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Vespers, for Sondol duo, Fireworks, & 13-block power outage, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Apotropaic Dispersion Network, Mental Pump, Architectural Massage, & Distended Chord Fade, Human Resources, Los Angeles
AST & SD, Wedding Crash Retribution in the style of Masaya Nakahara, Landers, California
AST Birthday Product Reveal, for AST Accursed Shared System, Coaxial, Los Angeles
Psychic Drift No.2 Drift Maldoror Dog, Val Verde Performance Forum, Val Verde, CA
Psychic Drift No.1 Malevich Despair/Moth Beat, Photon Oasis 24, Angeles Crest, CA
Millions In Prizes No. 2 Imaginary Estates, & Accumulated Mass, The Horse, Dublin, Ireland
Real Deal: Praiseâd Out, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles
2023 Mind Gameâd: Remote In Review, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Degrade the Threads: Online Phantasies of AI, with Scott Benzel, & Adam Otto Lutz, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Burned Minds & Vivisected Hear(t)se: Surveillance & Dissociative States of Post Panoptic Voids in the Mind & Machinic Mind, ÂŹNon Plus Ultra, Los Angeles
Listening Party No. 2: My Other Voice/Paradox of the Gossip (abjection mix), Art In the Park Los Angeles
2022 Psychic Hold/Tychic Drift I: Quincunx’n REGâd for voice, REG, Random Mechanical Cascade, lasers, EEG & 208r Programmable Meta-Organism (2018/2022), The Horse, Dublin
Catoptric Wilderness: Refraction & The Generation of Mind/Time, The Horse, Dublin
Spectres of Humanity: Granting, Refusing, & Compacting Pathos into That Which One Is Partial To, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2021 Raw Utopics (Drive & Discontents) for RC car tire, ink, line follower, recorded audio, Geodesic dome, LIQUID PLASTIC, University North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina
Paracelsus’ Airway: Sampled Cost, MOTOR, Los Angeles
2020 The Accursed Cred: Reductive/Predictive Methods of Assembling Cred via Actualized Solar Economies/Implications 2.5, Transparency Press, Los Angeles
The Accursed Cred: Reductive/Predictive Methods of Assembling Cred via Actualized Solar Economies/Implications, Coaxial, Los Angeles
Listening Party No. 1 (False Fade), Coaxial, Los Angeles
2019 History, Variants, and Decline of Pata-Anarchitechture in the Oncoming Virulent Amalgamation, Thymele Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Post No. 2, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
AST/Flatledge Showcase, Go Build Business, Chatsworth, CA
Post No.1, The Wulf. @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
2018 Closely No. 1 performed by Tofighi Denney Fink Trio. Soundwaves at the Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, CA
Galvanic Control Set/SIM No. 3. Bob baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles
The Seeds of Distrust No. 2 (Raw Deal/Do It for Simulacraceae), Coaxial, Los Angeles
Backpack No.1, Betalevel, Los Angeles
Galvanic Control Set/SIM No. 2. Battery books, Pasadena, CA
Galvanic Control Set/SIM No. 1. The Box, Los Angeles
Tofighi Plays T.O.F.I.G.H.I., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Closely No. 1, performed by Tofighi Denney Fink, The Wulf. @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
Closely No. 1, performed by Tofighi Denney Fink, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Closely No. 1, performed by Tofighi Denney Fink, Battery Books, Pasadena, California
2017 Closely No. 1 (M WR), Performed by Trio Ampliphonic, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Closely No. 1 (M WR), Performed by the Variable Ensemble, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Rock Tumbler No. 1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & The Hand of Glory No. 4, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & Seeds of Distrust No. 1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & The Hand of Glory No. 4, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 The Hand of Glory No. 3, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Alan S. Tofighi & Hand of Glory with The Cryptozoorchestra, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & The Cryotozoorchestra No.1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble No. 0, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
The Hand of Glory No. 2, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & The Hand of Glory No. 1, Westminster lanes, Westminster, CA
2015 Toys Not Music No. 3, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Toys Not Music No. 2, Lyon’s Den, Newhall, CA
Toys Not Music No. 1, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alan S. Tofighi & Chairkiller, Sunstar Studios, Huntington Beach, CA
âThree New Lives for Electric Chairâ No. 2, Dem Passwords Gallery, Los Angeles
Real Exchange, The Echo, Echo Park, CA
Duet for Fur-Bearing Trout and electronics, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Mayorally Yours, Valencia, CA
Modal Papal Topple with Jeffrey Vallance, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 The Comedy/The Socialite, DA Center for the Arts Pomona, Pomona, CA
O.O.T.N Lifestyle Solutions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Mean Business, multiple states, USA
Nouroboros Octet No. 3 Impromptu Mass, Faux O.O.T.N., Industrial Estate, Pasadena, CA
Nouroboros Octet No. 2 Complete Collapse of Numbers, Electronic Music Festival at College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita Valley, CA
Alan S. Tofighi for Mayor of SCV, Santa Clarita Valley, CA
Capture labyrinth, Document Labyrinth, Sidestreets Projects, Pasadena, CA
âAsk Nouroborosâ, NORO Labs, Valencia, CA
Nouroboros Octet No. 1 Adrenalin in Five Stages/The Composers Hat, Electronic Music Festival at College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
2013 âBeautifulâ, Radical Shift, Westside School of Ballet, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Managing America, dozens of alternative spaces, multiple States, USA
2010 Mayoral Hat, NORO Labs, Valencia, CA
Catalyst to Blood, Allergen, Unconscious Mass, Valencia, CA
Alan Fest III, PUSH Xchange, Santa Clarita, CA
Nouroboros Rising, NORO Labs, Valencia, CA
2007 Mallroom Blitz, Valencia Mall, Valencia, CA
Demonpose/big whoops, Emerald Bay, Catalina Island, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024 Sunrise to Sunset, MOTOR, Los Angeles
Spiritual Warfare Broadcast, Non Plus Ultra
Sound Shoppe, Sound Pedro, San Pedro, CA
2023 FORGET THE LABYRINT/BLOOD JET IS POETRY, ACID Three, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Christmas Closeout, Off Site, Dublin, Ireland
Love Is Real, Art in the Park, Los Angeles
Heart Attack Gun, Vol. 1, Quarterâs Gallery, Los Angeles
Hyper Didactic Vol 1, Non Plus Ultra
2022 Candidates for Humanity, REDCAT, Los Angeles
VPAC X DLV, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA
EVERYTHING MUST GO, MOTOR, Los Angeles, CA
2021 ReVIEWING Black Mountain College International Conference, University North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina
Sound Shoppe, Sound Pedro, San Pedro, CA
Object Subject/MOTOR FM, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
High Beams SPF 405, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Multiplay, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2020 Object/subject, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
Sound Pedro, San Pedro, CA
Practical Transparency â Symposium on art/work/life, Coaxial, Los Angeles
2019 Hoard Inaugural, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
Pay to Play, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Wealth Management/Financial Instrument, Go Build Business, Chatsworth, CA
WORKSPACE ONLY/NO OVERNIGHTS, Art in the Park, Highland Park, CA
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles
Digital Arts Expo, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 11/16/17 CalArts MFA Mid Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CalArts MFA Open Studios, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Art and Tech MFA-1 Group Mid Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 Art and Tech MFA-1 Group Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Solid Water -Liquid Sounds (The Los Angeles Water Table), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 Plaques in the Michael Asher Studio, John Baldessari Studio, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 Young Composers Conference II, Industrial Estate, Pasadena, CA
2013 17th Annual Student Art Show, College of The Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
2012 16th Annual Student Art Show, College of The Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE WORK
2024 One Third of a Dollar, John Hawk & Alan S. Tofighi, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles
Juliettes V: Lordâs Prayer in the Style of George Psalmanazar (Dylan Lusetisch & Alan S. Tofighi with Jesse & Stuart, WYRD WORLD, Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles
Juliettes IV (Dylan Lusetisch & Alan S. Tofighi with Joe Potts), Heart Attack Gun Vol 4, Melrose Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles
Juliettes III (Dylan Lusetisch & Alan S. Tofighi), Special Technique Reading + Sounds Melrose Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles
Juliettes II: For Don (Spiraling) (Dylan Lusetisch & Alan S. Tofighi), II HEART ATTACK GUN X Subliminal Jihad Noided LA 002, New Warehouse, Los Angeles
Juliettes I: Anti-Nixon Nixon (Dylan Lusetisch & Alan S. Tofighi), HEART ATTACK GUN X Subliminal Jihad x THE FARM: Noided LA 001, Pirate bar, Los Angeles
2023 FORGET THE LABYRINT/BLOOD JET IS POETRY, with Scott Benzel & Kathi Schulz ACID THREE, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Degrade the Threads: Online Phantasies of AI, with Scott Benzel, & Adam Otto Lutz, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2022 Pandemonium of the Sun, with Scott Benzel.
2021 Raw Utopics (Drive & Discontents) for RC car tire, ink, line follower, recorded audio, Geodesic dome, with Adam Otto Lutz University North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina,
Paracelsus’ Airway: Sampled Cost, MOTOR, Los Angeles
2020 Notes on Mindless Pleasures, with Scott Benzel, LACA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Non-Archetypal Junk/Frayed Perspective, with Adam Otto Lutz, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2018 V.I.T.R.I.O.L., with Scott Benzel, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
C108, with Adam Otto Lutz California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Closet Phenomenon, Original Score co-composer with Alexandre Saden and Carolina Hicks
(In)visible Labour, Original Score co-composer with Gosia Wojas
2017 Succession & Wreck, construction and development of the AST live feed for Matt Wilkinson
Experiencing Abstraction, Original Score co-composer with Alexandre Saden
2015 Aarum Alatorre Mid-Residency, Audio production, performance methodology
2014 Partial Gift/Generative Relic (8 Lions Divided), performance with Jeffrey Vallance, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES AS MUSICIAN/INTERPRETER
2023 Degrade the Threads: Online Phantasies of AI, with Scott Benzel, & Adam Otto Lutz, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2019 Night Music XI: Electronic Offerings, e. guitar and electronics as part of Trio Ampliphonic, Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2018 V.I.T.R.I.O.L., electronics, in part of Scott Benzelâs Ensemble. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Tofighi Denney Fink Trio perform at the Soundwaves New Music Series, e. guitar, Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, CA
Return of the Moldy Slides Show, spring reverb tanks and electronics, live accompaniment for Doug Harveyâs Moldy Slides Show, Cubist Spinoff, Los Angeles
The Art of Feedback, no input mixer, contact mic, microphonic feedback, electronics, and otoacoustics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2017 Variable Ensemble perform -Closely No. 1 (M WR), e. guitar and electronics. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Night Music VIII Adventurous Music, Tofighi, Denney, Fink Trio. e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Sonic Boom Extreme Metal Von Den Ersten Dingen, e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Digital Arts Expo: Von den Ersten Dingen Sonic Boom Extreme Metal, e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Night Music VII, Duo with Michael Jon Fink, and as part of Feedback Waveriders large Ensemble. e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Miguel Ayala, Thesis Exhibition, e. guitar and electronics. Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
The Intuitive Music of Stockhausen, e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2016 FaUSt & Friends â Fresh Air, vocals. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Sonic Boom Performs the Music of Ulrich Krieger, e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2015 Various Scores by Isaac Aronson, voice, dance, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
Sonic Boom: Avant-Garde Rock, e. guitar and electronics. Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
2023 Listening Party No. 2: My Other Voice/Paradox of the Gossip (abjection mix), for noise gate, voice, & backing track
2022 Psychic Hold/Tychic Drift I: Quincunx’n REGâd for voice, REG, Random Mechanical Cascade, lasers, EEG & 208r Programmable Meta-Organism
2020 Cracked Math III: Mock Up for trio of mobile performers of any instrumentation, large Gömböc, and prodder team
Cracked Math II: Gömböcâd for any instrumentation, at least three Gömböcs, equilibrium detectors, voltage-controlled Amplifier, and as many performers as necessary
Cracked Math I: Prime Time for trio of amplified strings
From My D.U.M.B. To Yours (Autocorrelation as Corroboration from Dulce Base to Mel’s Hole) for autotune, lapsteel, voice, and as many performers as necessary
Essential Parts I: Paracelsusâ Airway for DIY utterance robot, autotune, solenoid driven hand, laps steel, jars of synthetic blood, hair, fluids, and feedback
BASE/NET I: Auto Skimming for Paper Trail Accumulator, synthesis, and credit/debit cards of closed accounts
BASE/NET II: Compiled: History Habits Purchased for raw and HTML data of personal data vie sites relating or related to finances regarding the sales and purchases around musical production, and MIDI simulations unobtainable instruments
Snuffed Receiver I: Phantasm for Raudive Diode, RF Detector, gain, reverb, and time-based effects, and or radio belonging to a deceased person
Snuffed Receiver II: Reverse Haunting for Raudive Diode and favorite songs of a deceased acquaintance
at time of death
Snuffed Receiver III: Laying of the Hands: for Raudive Diode, lap steel, gain, reverb, and time-based effects
Listening Party, for Flat Ledge CDs, noise gate, electronics, and lap steel
2019 Smooth Sending: The Spectral ÂŹÂŹTelegraphic Right of Way Towards Dark Fibres, for electric guitars, RF detector, and electronics.
۱ÙÙ Royce ۱ÙŰ 91 I: âHead Canon for first memories of musical interest, first instrument, and recording device
۱ÙÙ Royce ۱ÙŰ 91 II: âGated Proof for first memories of music interest, recordings of first musical interest,
noise gate, reverb, and recording device
Millions In Prizes I: Self-Help for site of virulent amalgamation, objects that constitute the virulent amalgamation, recording device, sampler, organization, disposal, and permission
Millions In Prizes II: Closure for site of virulent amalgamation, room tone of former site of virulent amalgamation, recording device, sampler, organization, and permission
Cold Coda I: Prelude/Refrain to Annihilation for geographical coordinates of Nike Missile Bases of Southern California, Nike Missile Bases of Southern California Sine Waves, VCAâs, and the Pop Songs of the Year
2018 Post I: Memory Composition of Visceral Residue, for foley tools, electronics, video, and as many performers as necessary
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble IX: Abraxas, for sine waves, resultant frequencies, geographical coordinates, and Blinky resonator
Globster for any instrumentation and at least three performers
Galvanic Control SET/SIM for Galvanic Control Processor, pathos complicating animatronics, live feed, contact microphones, spring reverbs, Electronics, projector, and blood filter
(Give/Get/Crash) The Gate, for electric guitar(s), slide, noise gate(s), and electronics
Backpack for whatever fits in a backpack and can be publicly transported
Seeds of Distrust No. 2 (Raw Deal) for Simulacraceae, Wheatstone Bridge, water bottle, handheld speaker, âheavy metalâ, water bottle, and electronics
Swarms and Isolated Incidents for any instrumentation and any number of performers
2017 Closely No. 6 (PRFRMNC F WR: NTM LV VLNC F SHP KNLL VCTM; GD S T S NDLSS BLND DTS FR TH NGHTMR,) for at least two electric guitars, electronics, percussion, cv radio, foldable chair, flamethrower, synthetic meat percussion, paper, and any instrumentation
Closely No. 5 (BD N TH STL F DB FRM BHND TH MSK), for Plunderphonic album track Dab, Bad album track Bad (Dance Extended Mix Includes “False Fade”), granular synthesis, jangling metal/studs, forced air, and any instrumentation
Closely No. 4 (FRMNTSTHRTTHRSCNDS) for any instrumentation and noise gate/silencer
Closely No. 3 (TH TRTS, HS DRMS ND D N NGR GDD B TH RSNNT TRNSFRMR F TN CNRD+JHN CL) For amplified violin, amplified viola, picket sign, gong, oscillators, âInside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara (1965)â CD, 60 cycle hum, and applied acoustics
Closely No. 2 (DSSPR), for electric guitar(s) and EBow(s)
Closely No. 1 (M WR), for electric guitar(s) and EBow(s)
Baby Rattler, for at least four electric guitars, ball chains, and EBows
Seeds of Distrust, for organic plastic plant, synthetic plastic plant, early girl tomato, wheatstone bridge, Dektor Psychological Stress Evaluator, and electronics
Bottomless Veil of Tears No. 2, madrigal for human voices
Bottomless Veil of Tears No. 1, madrigal for synthetic human voices
The Hand of Glory, for nine hands of glory, violin, cello, electric guitar, percussion, and electronics
2016 Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble VI (for Mount Everest), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble V (for Double Negative), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble IV (for the rabbits of Ćkunoshima), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble III (for the Victims of the Roswell Crash Site), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble II (for California Condors), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble I (for the Manifest Memories of Vasquez Rocks), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Vasquez Rocks Large Ensemble 0 (for Continuous Performance), for plastic party whistle/kazoo
Time Appropriation, for performer, and time zone
Schopenhauer’s Drone, for performer, scalpel, and bulldog ant
Planarian Forms (to all Planarians Put Under The Knife) for any instrument and as many as necessary
Comfortable at 1.841 Hz, for parties
The Hand of Glory, for any number of Hand of Glory, performer, and electronics
Realization for The Unnamable and Unclaimable: Aria/Potential Threnody for The Critical And Pre-Taxonomized, for any instrument, critically endangered organism animatronic stand-in, and cryptozoological organism animatronic stand-in
2015 Three New Lives for Electric Chair for performer, electric chair, video graphics processor, and electronics
In the Field (Variant for Alan S. Tofighi) for plant, polygraph, wheatstone bridge, and tape
2014 Experiments in Primary Perception, Camaraderie, Trust, and Conscience in the Post-Vibrant for plant, polygraph, wheatstone bridge, and tape.
PUBLISHED AS AUTHOR
2025 Critical Bands (2014-2023) The Horse Press, (forthcoming)
2024 Can Dialectics Break Grids?: Utopian Realism in Matthew Wilkinsonâs Free Power/Ponzi Schemes (2019-2024), City Racing
Flat ledge Press Kit & Exhibition History (2010-2024). Flat Ledge Editions.
2023 Recursive Fields & Perceptual Games: The Interlocking Work and Works of Dickie Landry, The Horse
2022 A Casebook of Indeterminate Results & Coincidence Control (2013-2022) Shuffling, Cycling, and Flipping Accompanied by Demystified Retro(spection/causality). Flat Ledge Editions
Mechanized Idiocy: Writings on Reconstructed histories and the Subcultural industry. Flat Ledge Editions.
2021 Scott Benzel – Mindless Pleasures . Los Angeles Contemporary Archive.
Formalized Spittle, Abiogenetic Sludge, and Dregs of the Self: Physical & Computational Homunculi Method/Application, Flat Ledge Editions.
Rapid Stain Identification: Collected Positions, Genotypes, & Junk DNA Vol. I, Flat Ledge Editions
History, Variants, and Decline of âpatarchitecture in the Oncoming Virulent Amalgamation (Part. 1) OOPA vol.1
Culturcide – Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America. 33 1/3
2020 ALAN S. TOFIGHI PRODUCTS & EVENTSFALL 2010 – SPRING 2020. Flat Ledge Editions.
2019 NSU. Arazi Club vol. 2
Entropic Strategies of Imitation and the Plastic Pathetic: Notes on capitalism, memory, neoteny, and Commercial Songs 2003-2005. Flat Ledge Editions.
2019 The Role of Chess, Computation, and Organic/Mechanized/Feigned Intelligence in Compositional Structures: Notes on Electronically Assisted Composition and Extreme Computer Chess Music. Flat Ledge Editions.
2018 A Compendium of Lyrics from Various Zeuhl Musical Groups Compiling Kobian and Other Dialects for the Hermeneutical Audio Concretization Center for Encrypted Polemics (HACCEP). Volume III: Version I Edited by Alan S. Tofighi. HACCEP.
A Compendium of Resolved and Unresolved Ciphers, Cryptograms, and Encrypted Lines for the Hermeneutical Audio Concretization Center for Encrypted Polemics (HACCEP) Volume: II Version: I Edited by Alan S. Tofighi. HACCEP.
Information Concerning the Archive of the Permanent collection of Hermeneutical Audio Concretization Center for Encrypted Polemics (HACCEP) Volume I: Version I Edited by Alan S. Tofighi. HACCEP.
2017 Selected Scores by Alan S. Tofighi (2014-2017). Flat Ledge Editions.
Bottomless Vale of Tears: Effects of Random and Regulated Noise on Plant Growth. Flat Ledge Editions.
2016 Realization for the Unnamable and Unclaimable Aria/Potential Threnody for The Critical and Pre-Taxonomized.
Cryptozoology: Anomaly, Social Hierarchy/information-based stultification, willful disappearance, cultural Identity, endangered commodity, and the legality of existence. or in defense of the âHalf Real-Half Insaneâ Thesis by Alan S. Tofighi.
2015 I’m Still Not Sure What Punk Is. Aarum Alatorre & Alan S. Tofighi
Three New Lives for Electric Chair (The Synaptic Chaser) Reclaiming Sensation for Maximum Merging in Entertainment
Three New Lives for Electric Chair (Evolutionary Current) Electronic Therapy (Approximation from Inception to The Modern Age)
âThree New Lives for Electric Chairâ Composition by Alan S. Tofighi (For Electric Chairs, Inducer Prism, Enactor Wand, and Electronics)
2013 The Book of Scales: Countenance for the O.O.T.N.
The Book of Constriction and Release: Doctrine of the O.O.T.N., Alan S. Tofighi
2012 Pasteland
2010 Various Articles. Seancarnage.com
Taste the Chain an Interview with Francis Harold and The Holograms. Buddyhead.com
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Trio for Removal, Shuffled Mass, & Sifted Proof, video, color, sound 10 min.
Post-Unhomely: Hoarded Loop (2008-202), video, color, sound. 10 min.
2022 Third Sight, Catoptrics via Psychic Driving, video, color, variable sound. variable
2021 Minimax: Batched & Scoped (tryouts), video, color, variable sound. 5 min.
2020 Radically Litigious Composers Closely 1-6, video color, sound 58 min.
2019 Sample Packed Album Video, video, color, sound, 33 min.
Commercial Songs 2003-2005 Album Video, video, color, sound, 30 min.
Post I: Memory Composition of Visceral Residue, video, color, 13 min.
2018 Reformatted Artifice: Culturcide I-XIV, video, color, sound, 58 min.
Galvanic Control SET/SIM No.2 Control Bar (for Bob Baker), video, Color, 11 min.
Galvanic Control SET/SIM No.1 Cutting Room Floor (Red Cell) video, Color, Sound, 9 min.
TPL RDG DR (Three Views), video, color, sound, 15 min.
TPL RDG DR Living Room Stereoscopically Reprocessed, Google Cardboard VR.
TPL RDG DR, Kitchen Stereoscopically Reprocessed, Google Cardboard VR.
2017 Acumen Reducing Stream of Forged/Fatal Actions I (Animal Apocalypse), video, color, sound, 18 min.
Advanced and Implied Psychological Stress Evaluation for Simulacraceae, leprechaun Aglaonema, and Human No.1, video, color, sound, 3:34 min. loop.
Stereoscopic Critical Band I: The Hand of Glory, Google Carboard VR, video, color, sound.
Cryptozoological Survey No. 1, video, color, sound, 3 min loop.
2016 Operation of Three New Lives for Electric Chair (disembodied version), video, color, 40 second loop
2015 Six Visions (For Occult Self-Amputation. video, color, sound, 18 mins
2010 NASA Space Universe â BâWAP, video, color, sound, 2.5 min
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Wilkinson, Matt, Hoarderâs Folly
2023 Benzel, Scott, Forget the Labyrinth / Blood Jet is Poetry
2022 Benzel, Scott, Lazarus Canary: Thigmomorphogenesis, World Knots, and Psi Chicks in the deep-dive work of Alan S. Tofighi
2021 Wertheim, Christine, Alan Review-ACYUAL, MOTOR
Benzel, Scott, Mindless Pleasures, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Harvey, Doug, To Fighi or Not To FighiâŠ, Less Art
2019 Benzel, Scott, Hoard Inaugural, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in The Desert, exhibition catalog ed. Daniela Lieja Quintana, Harry Dodge, Michael Ned Holte, Ashley Hunt, Clara Lopez Menendez, Ines Schaber
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
2022 hex|manifest|ations of: Predictive Flows, Ideal viewers, Coincidence Control, & Psychic Drift I â Alan S. Tofighi. Flat Ledge.
2021 Totalized: Grotesques, Abduction, & Junk DNA Haze/Dropped LeakÂŹ â Alan S. Tofighi, Flat Ledge.
2020 âReverse Haunting â Snuffed Receiver, Flat Ledge.
Auto Skimming â BASE/NET, Flat Ledge.
Closely â Alan S. Tofighi, Flat Ledge.
2019 Sample Packed â Millions In Prizes, Flat Ledge.
Everyday Synergy â Alan S. Tofighi, Flat Ledge.
Commercial Songs 2003-2005 â Alan S. Tofighi & Ù Royce ۱ÙŰ 91, Flat Ledge
2018 Synthetic Slice, â Alan S. Tofighi, Flat Ledge.
Audio Compiled/Processed via Data from Three Exhibitions of the T.O.F.I.G.H.I. MACHINE â T.O.F.I.G.HI. Plays Tofighi, Flat Ledge.
2017 Selected Audio from Selected Scores by Alan S. Tofighi â Various, Flat Ledge.
Planted Evidence â Alan S. Tofighi & The Seeds of Distrust, Flat Ledge.
2016 Realization for The Unnamable and Unclaimable Aria/Potential Threnody for The Critical and Pre-Taxonomized â Alan S. Tofighi & The Cryptozoorchestra, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
In A Cave/Trial by Fire â Alan S. Tofighi & The Hand of Glory, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
2016 C108 â Alan S. Tofighi & The $75,000 Studio Plaque, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
2015 Toy Killer â Alan S. Tofighi & Toys Not Music, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
Three New Lives for Electric Chair â Alan S. Tofighi & Nouroboros, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
Intelligent Design â Alan S. Tofighi & Toys Not Music, Nouroboros Industrial Concern
2013 Alan S. Tofighi Conducts the Nouroboros Octet â “Two Does Not Equal Eight” â Alan S. Tofighi & The Nouroboros Octet, Nouroboros Industrial Concern.
SELECTED CURATION
2024 Heart Attack Gun Vol. 4, co curated with Dylan Lusetich, Melrose Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Heart Attack Gun Vol. 2, co curated with Dylan Lusetich
2023 Heart Attack Gun Vol. 1, co curated with Dylan Lusetich, Quarterâs Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 EVERYTHING MUST GO, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Alberto Koessian, and Adam Otto Lutz. MOTOR, Los Angeles, CA
MOTOR, Los Angeles
2021 MOTOR FM, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Alberto Koessian, and Adam Otto Lutz, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedo, CA
Interstice, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Alberto Koessian, Adam Otto Lutz, and Sarah Umles.
MOTOR, Los Angeles, CA
Road Test, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Alberto Koessian, and Adam Otto Lutz, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Skip Tracing: Homunculi Physically & Computationally Grafted, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Alberto Koessian, and Adam Otto Lutz, MOTOR, Los Angeles
2020 Practical Transparency â Symposium on art/work/life, Coaxial, Los Angeles
2019 WORKSPACE ONLY/NO OVERNIGHTS, co curated with Jinseok Choi, Art in the Park, Highland Park, CA
2010 Alan Fest III, Push Xchange, Santa Clarita, CA
SELECTED TEACHING HISTORY
2024 Visiting Artist â Improvisation Practicum, Herp Albert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2019 Visiting Artist – School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Visiting Artist – Herp Albert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2018 Program Directing Assistant, Art and Technology, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017-18 Teaching Assistant, Art and Technology, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA
2016-18 Audio Editing Instructor/Technician, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2016 Teaching Assistant, School of Art, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
2010-14 College Media Assistant, Media Entertainment Arts Program, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
SELECTED GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2024 The Horse Artist in Residence, The Horse, Dublin
2022 The Horse Artist in Residence, The Horse, Dublin
2021 Lightning Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation, New York
MOTOR Artist in Residence, MOTOR, Los Angeles
2020 Artists Relief Grant, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
Transparency Press Artist in Residence Series, Transparency Press, Los Angeles
2019 Inner Experience Fellowship, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
Official California Institute of the Arts Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2018 Deanâs Reserve Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Provost’s Merit Award, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 Provost’s Merit Award, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Deanâs Reserve Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 Provost’s Merit Award, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CalArts Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CalArts Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Deanâs Reserve Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 CalArts Commission for Sustainability Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
School of Art Award, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2015 CalArts Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Deanâs Reserve Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014 School of Art Award, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CalArts Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Deanâs Reserve Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
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