about

This is the website of Adrian Guzman. I am a student and artist interested in web development, sample-based music, and digital collage.

I'm currently studying the ANSI Common LISP programming language, learning Spanish, and staying up with my lifetime commitment to education through reading and writing.

As long as we remain urged toward over-specialization and isolation, I will remain in its opposition, attempting to both disintegrate externally imposed bonds and enact novel methods of personal evolution.

Therefore, you'll find a variety of content and context on this website. I'm especially interested in design, but also psychoanalysis, religion, art history, painting, digital media, literature, communications, poetry, transcendentalism, mysticism, philosophy, anti-capitalism, D.I.Y., technology, sociology, psychology, old-tech programming, web design, music, systems theory, computer science, outsider art, writing, photography, cybernetics, deep ecology, anthropology, cybersecurity and...

...anything that can invoke a sense of divinity.

Why does this website look like this?

Before I was conscious of the overreaching surveillance, sale of my private data, and data-science informed addiction cycle, I often felt frustrated by both the lack of expressive capability and the homogeny of content on mainstream social media. The concept of a personal webpage, then, appealed to me on several levels.

You have a higher degree of control over the dissemination and presentation of your media when you handcode a website to your specificity as opposed to the relatively static options most social media websites offer. You can better control not only your content, but your context.

Isn't it a miracle that we live in an age with cheap, semi-permanent, and democractic publishing? Although websites rest on certain powers outside of my control, (i.e. my ISP), I feel far more comfortable that my data will not be censored or lost here as opposed to if I had chosen a corporate-backed option.

I am also quite attracted to the idea of doing things slowly. The sense of satisfaction I have gotten from incrementally furthering a personal project is healing to me in an age where nearly every institution urges you towards rapid destitution.

I prefer to iterate and upload in real time. I've accepted that this project is forever a work in progress. As such, there will occasionally be broken webpages and links!

So, again, why does this website look like this? Because I made it.