alex cruse is an antidisciplinary artist and writer currently based in Santa Cruz. 

author of CONTRAVERSE (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017), zero energy experimental pile (Compline, 2020), and solo for world system (Antiphony Press, forthcoming 2028). 

A PhD. student in Film and Digital Media at UCSC, cruse programs Indexical’s TILT-SHIFT, a sporadic screening series on militant cinema’s poetics and praxes. Since 2015,  cruse has performed with Kevin CK Lo as multimedia performance experiment DROUGHT SPA. Writing, art, and criticism can be found inSocial Text,LOGIC Mag,SFMOMA Open Space,SPAM Zine,Post-Crisis Poetics,Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, among other places.