A multi-media artist living near San Antonio, TX, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, glitch video, sticker art, mail art, and pop surrealism paintings. His most recent books are Floral Float Flume (experimental novel), Robot Speak (poems), and Gonch Poems. Book covers showcase his video work or paintings. His other books include a collection of limericks based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, naturally entitled Cthulhu Limericks; a four-part series of erotic dark fantasies set in Ancient Egypt; an on-going series about a dishwasher in space; and the science fiction novels Computing Angels, The Toothpick Fairy, and Kill Claus!. These books and more are available via Amazon, Lulu, and Barnes and Noble.com.

His text and visual work has appeared in Adbusters, Utne Reader, Chiron Review, Otoliths, Ranger, Son of Angry Old Man, Slipstream, Futures Trading, Stepaway, Rusty Truck, The Five-Two, Midnight Lane Boutique, River River, Ex-Ex Lit, H&, Zoomoozophone Review, Empty Mirror, In Between Hangovers, Streetcake, Clockwise Cat, Your One Phone Call, Zombie Logic Review, Full of Crow, Exquisite Corpse, Open 24 Hours, Malefact, Spoonfed, Shattered Wig Review, and other literary journals. As a freelance writer, he has published articles and reviews in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Utne Reader, Option, and other periodicals. As a mail artist, he has sent work around the world and regularly contributes to several assembling magazines, including Arthole, Attic Zine, Braincell, Circulaire 132, Jirafa en llamas, KART, Nada Zero, Rubber Postcard, StampZine, WIPE, and WowNow.

As a musician, he has performed in several music projects including Tone Ghosting (solo electronics), Stylus (turntable ensemble), Mercury Fools the Alchemist (free improvisation trio), For Official Use Only (electronics trio), Bionic Eyes (electronics duo), and Alzo Boszormenyi and the Acid Achievers (7 piece improvising rock band). Mercury Fools the Alchemist’s CD “The Science of Unobtainable Results” and Tone Ghosting’s “Plastic Voice” and “Unfolding” CDs are also available via Amazon. The Tone Ghosting tape “Private Jet Experience” is available from Become Eternal tapes. Complete Tone Ghosting discography here. Recent electronic music can be sampled at SoundCloud here.

Glitch video works, including video poems and music videos, can be found at the Bionic Eyes YouTube channel.

For 30 years he worked in the DC arts underground, where he was a street artist, zine editor/publisher, and concert organizer. He produced 13 issues of Mole magazine; organized the Electric Possible concert series (and two issues of an offshoot assembling magazine documenting the scene); performed in numerous music ensembles (both ongoing projects like turntable ensemble Stylus and one-off collaborations like JJJJEEEEFFFFFFFF (with Jeff Surak, Jeff Carey, and Jeff Barsky), Noumenal Lingham, BLKw/Bear (Jim Adams), Lung Mountain, Starry Chatter (duo with Dave Vosh) and For Official Use Only (trio with Dave Vosh and Logan Mitchell, Sr.); organized two large mail art exhibitions; organized two exhibitions of thrift store art; etc.