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Installation view, RTRU*  *Raudive Technocultural Research Unit at Kaje, Brooklyn, 2026
Raudive Diodes, 2026, (upper left) in RTRU* at Kaje, Brooklyn
Raudive Diode, 2026, (detail) as part of RTRU* at Kaje, Brooklyn
Breakthrough/ELpH, 2025, in psychomanteum, at Kaje Brooklyn and Phase Gallery Los Angeles
V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (cryonized head of Walt Disney), 2019, The Sublevel, CalArts, 2026
Happy Birthday Gunther and Walt, 2026, The Sublevel, Calarts, 2026
Happy Birthday Gunther and Walt, 2026, The Sublevel, Calarts, 2026
Clock, 2026, part of The Deer Park, Paramount-ArtCraft Los Angeles
Saturn Enquirer, 2026, part of The Deer Park, Paramount-ArtCraft Los Angeles
Go Faster!, 2025, in psychomanteum, Phase Gallery Los Angeles
Faun Pharmacy, 2025, in psychomanteum, Phase Gallery Los Angeles
Psychomanteum (Freak-in) (detail), 2025
Psychomanteum (Honeypump) (detail), 2025
Psychomanteum (Unica), 2025
Typhon (Gyre), 2025, stacked risograph on paper, band, acrylic case, printed by Special Effects
Typhon (Gyre), 2025, stacked risograph on paper, band, acrylic case, printed by Special Effects
Forget the Labyrinth / Blood jet is poetry / ilovebees.exe (detail), 2024, installation view, Treignac Projet
Forget the Labyrinth / Blood jet is poetry / ilovebees.exe (detail) and Hives..., 2024,  installation view,, Treignac Projet
Forget the Labyrinth / Blood jet is poetry / ilovebees.exe (detail), 2024,  installation view, Treignac Projet
Hives, North Tawton, Devon, 1961 (detail), 2024,  installation view, Treignac Projet
Symbols of the divine show up in this world initially at the trash stratum (detail), in Parallel Worlds: Scott Benzel Norman Klein,  installation view, Phase Gallery Los Angeles, 2024
Parallel Worlds: Scott Benzel Norman Klein, installation view, Phase Gallery Los Angeles, 2024
Forget the Labyrinth..., 2024, installation view, Phase Gallery Los Angeles
The Secret Rise of Skunk Works, Norman Klein and Patrick Vogel, 2022, in Parallel Worlds: Scott Benzel Norman Klein, Phase Gallery Los Angeles, 2024
Labyrinth, 2024, American Letter Mail Co. stamp circa 19th C, celluloid, tape, pushpin, in situ, David Horvitz's Garden
Aviary, 2024, aluminum, wood, electronics, lcd display, Fate magazine April 1991
Symbols of the divine show up in this world initially at the trash stratum (detail), The Hammer Museum, 2023
Symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum (detail), The Hammer Museum, 2023
Symbols of the divine show up in this world initially at the trash stratum (detail), 2020-present, installation view, Hammer Museum, 2023
Symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum, 2020-ongoing
Symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum, 2020-ongoing
Given 1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating... (detail), 2023, as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Atonist Order, 2023, as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Triadic Muse, 2023,  as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Triadic Muse, 2023,  as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum (‘No Traces Behind’), 2023,  vaporware ‘dark pool’ tracker
Le Double Monde/Lathe of Heaven, 2023, wireless brainwave entrainment headset, responsive oscilloscope drawing, electronics
Dark Pool, letterpress print, 2023
Vestigia, 2023, as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Tuesday, 2023, as part of Vestigia, The Horse Dublin
Hybrid Monte Carlo, 2020, installation view, Bel Ami Los Angeles
Mindless Pleasures, installation view, Bel Ami Los Angeles, 2020
Hybrid Monte Carlo (detail), 2020
N'abolira, 2020, and Figurative, 2020, installation view, Bel Ami Los Angeles
Figurative, 2020
N'abolira (detail), 2020
N'abolira (detail), 2020
California Split / La Forchette du Cavalier (detail), 2020, Bel Ami Los Angeles
California Split / La Forchette du Cavalier (detail), 2020, Bel Ami Los Angeles
California Split / La Fourchette du Cavalier schematics (detail), 2020
The Ace in 'The Queen of Spades', 2020, Bel Ami Los Angeles
Mindless Pleasures, mongraph, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2021
New Uses of Common Objects (cherry bombs and tacks grenades), 2019, ceramic, paint, tacks, fuse
New Uses of Common Objects (soda can (Vernor's), powder, steel bb with fuse grenade), 2019, steel, bb's, fuse
Scott Benzel, New Uses of Common Objects, 2019
Mathesis and Mathematikoi, performance, Mt. Wilson Observatory, 2017
Mathesis and Mathematikoi, 2017, performance, Mt. Wilson Observatory
Magnified / Erased, 2014, electron microscope photograph of a flake of cocaine from the book ‘Magnifications,’ video of rotoscopic erasure of a flake of cocaine from Neil Young’s nostril from the film ‘The Last Waltz,’ flatscreen, media cart
Work 59
The Trip, original film posters with original censorship stickers, 2014
Work 61
Bison Dele, Last Game-Worn Jersey, 2014, nylon jersey
Work 63
Kiosk, 2014, Maccarone New York
Counterfeit Nike 'Heaven's Gate' SB Dunks, 2011 / 2014, steel, glass
Altered Circulatory Systems, 2016, original CIA counterfeit Cuban peso note, Bay of Pigs era; original 'Breton fisherman' Franc note collage w German stamp
Installation View, Everyday War, Ashes Ashes Los Angeles, 2016
Ekphrasis / Extended Phenotype: A rebour, La bas, et al., 2016
Installation View, Everyday War, 2016
Recombinatory System (Gog-Magog), glass, disguised pipe, Coca Cola bottle, vintage breast pump, vintage oil test bottle, 2016
ISBN 978-0-9913772-0-6, perfect bound book, 2016
Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement V, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2014
Programmatic Architecture Displacements VI-VIII (Capitol Spire, Randy's Donuts), foamcore, paper, 2014
Installation View, "LAAIR / The Traveller's Companion Addenda", Shanaynay, Paris, 2013
Installation View, "LAAIR / The Traveller's Companion Addenda", Shanaynay, Paris, 2013
LAAIR, The Traveller's Companion Addenda, 2013, silkscreen ink on perfect-bound book
ACR CIT,  The Traveller's Companion Addenda, 2013, silkscreen ink on perfect-bound book
Work 78
Defaced / Effaced Case, 2014, Human Resources Los Angeles
Doubles and Counterfeits (for Gerard de Nerval), 2013, glass, seawater, Human Resources Los Angeles
Doubles and Counterfeits (for Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 2013, newton's cradles, Human Resources Los Angeles
Beach Boys Drummer Drowns, 2013, installation view, Autocenter Berlin
(with Mark Hagen) East Coast / West Coast, 2012, book, coprolite bookends
(with Mark Hagen) Jobs, 2012, book, coprolite bookends
(with Mark Hagen) Against Trilogy, 2012, book, coprolite bookends
"The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis", installation view, Public Fiction Los Angeles, 2012
"The Academy/The Chthonic at Eleusis", installation view, Public Fiction Los Angeles, 2012
Untitled (Cerberus), unfired sclay, fluorescent tube, 2012
Black Hole, printed by Colby Poster Printing, 2012
In the Good Name of the Company: Artworks and ephemera produced by or in tandem with the Colby Printing Company, ForYourArt, 2013
In the Good Name of the Company: Artworks and ephemera produced by or in tandem with the Colby Printing Company, by Christopher Michlig (Editor), Brian Roettinger (Editor), Jan Tumlir (Editor), 2013

Installation view, RTRU* *Raudive Technocultural Research Unit at Kaje, Brooklyn, 2026