A treatise on urban futurism & universal subculture.

ØRGΛN C1TY

"Because that’s what it takes to read this book—you need to rethink how you consume art and what art can do. "

Review: ØRGΛN C1TY: metarhythm

"The book’s illustrations depict a future city that is both beautiful and chaotic."

Press Release: Kahlil Crawford’s ØRGΛN C1TY Explores Urban Futurism & Artistic Expression

"Kahlil Crawford and Mariette Papić collaborate on a visionary exploration of art and music."

Review: ØRGΛN C1TY: A Visual Journey Into Urban Futurism & Sonic Metarhythms

"Some Indigenous and minority creatives translate visual stimuli into existential narratives that elevate their nations and communities. Globally, these designers form a “diaspora” of visionaries committed to advancing the state of their people."

Essay: Diasporic Design - A Straight-Ahead Approach

"...reads like memoir in a sparse approximation of verse, where meta is “less about time / and more about movement” and is either generative for or by EDM genres..."

Review: Organs Without Bodies

"...utilize futuristic concepts to build positive technology and rebuild our urban environments in a way that elevates children, lower-income people, and minorities."

Spotlight: Kahlil Crawford

"... maintain organicity amidst perpetually rapid technological advancements that often eclipse the fact that human hands, hearts and minds built the internet (i.e., it is not self-sustaining) ..."

KAHLIL: A Tech Life

"If a book is portable why, then, does a bookstore pose "a problem of space?" Perhaps it is because books are an illusion."

Review:  In Praise of Good Bookstores

"Kessler is a dark bard, ruminating somewhere between Poe and Osbourne. He is immersed in nocturnal omens and heavy metal. His verses are cloaked in despair yet whisper light, weaving through mythical knots and ebony currents..."

Review: Damnation and Cotton Candy

"It captures the pure abstraction of infinity of Malevich!" - J.Galmitz

Poetry: Supreme Ekphrasis

"By helping to build and align the knowledge bases of data activists and journalists, technologists can empower them to jointly mobilize data equality initiatives and mass communications to the effect."

Books

Selected work