Actor

Brion Gysin

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Movies: 10Series: 0

TMDB ID: 550260

IMDb ID: nm0350531

Known for: Acting

Born: January 19, 1916

Died: July 13, 1986

Age: 70

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1966 - 2025

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 7

Wikidata: Q917570

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Biography

Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."

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