Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2000, he has lived in New York City, where he works as an exhibit designer and writer. His poetry collections include THE SHIRT WEAPON (Germ, 2002), and DARK BRANDON (Faux, 2005). An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, DARK BRANDON // ETERNAL CLASSICS, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, LAKE ANTIQUITY, from which the work on Ink Node is drawn, will be published by Fence in November, 2009.
