The Work
His surviving video work — gathered from the damonzex666 channel and grouped by program — followed by the late conceptual writings. Dates are the original creation era; the uploads came later. Sensitive pieces sit behind a content note, and nothing plays until you press it.
The public-access anthology (c. 1992–2004) — the segments that made him a Columbus legend. Posted to YouTube years after they first aired.
Content note
Transgressive imagery and themes, presented as deliberate avant-garde provocation.
Zextalk era (c. 1992–2004) · uploaded 2007-01-08
A vampire-and-zombie parody that opens as homage to Ed Wood and Romero — among the most-cited Zextalk segments.
Zextalk era · uploaded 2007-01-10
The wine-soaked-cereal morning ritual, staged as absurdist endurance comedy.
Content note
Transgressive imagery and themes, presented as deliberate avant-garde provocation.
Zextalk era · uploaded 2007-02-11
Zex as an invented televangelist — a deliberately blasphemous satire of broadcast religion.
Content note
Transgressive imagery and themes, presented as deliberate avant-garde provocation.
Zextalk era · uploaded 2007-01-16
A campus favorite whose title was built to alarm — provocation as a way to keep you watching.
c. 1990s–2000s
An Orwellian piece about the screen that watches back; it reappears inside Checkmate.
His major late film (c. 2009) and the clips cut from it — near-silent, expressionist, and built on a chess motif. The film itself runs about 27 minutes (the DVD lists 30).
c. 2009
His major late film, part one of two: near-silent and expressionist, built on a chess motif and scored to Mahler.
c. 2009
The conclusion of his major late film — the chessboard meditation in full.
2009 · uploaded 2009-02-17
A clip from the final cut of Checkmate.
2009 · uploaded 2009-02-19
A short clip from Checkmate.
2009 · uploaded 2009-02-20
A clip from a recut of Checkmate.
Singular pieces and media-critique shorts from across the channel, including the satirical “Zex For President.”
c. 2007 · uploaded 2007-04-18
A later short performed before Zex's own pen-and-ink artwork — what he called a “yoga voodoo ritual.”
c. 2007 · uploaded 2007-06-09
Follow-up to Kundalini Killer (written by Zex, directed by James Dinan): “Yoga is for war.”
2007 (satire) · uploaded 2007-01-16
His 2007 satirical campaign video — a performance, not a literal run for office.
2010 · uploaded 2010-11-29
A late media-critique short skewering social networking — his most-viewed clip.
c. 2007 · uploaded 2007-05-15
A short with a thesis: “We have all been minimized.”
c. 2009 · uploaded 2009-02-25
Content note
Transgressive imagery and themes, presented as deliberate avant-garde provocation.
c. 2000s
c. 2007 · uploaded 2007-01-29
c. 2007 · uploaded 2007-01-10
A media-critique short.
The late conceptual writing (2012–2014) — the LiveJournal “ZexArt” manifesto and prose-poems, and the WordPress essays and scripts. The through-line proving the trained conceptualist was always underneath the shock.
2012 · Manifesto
His manifesto. Zex declares himself a conceptual artist and frames a years-long experiment in “completely using and investigating cyberspace,” citing his MFA thesis and advancing a genuine techno-mysticism — cyberspace as a contemporary astral plane, the networked computer slowly coming to life. The clearest proof that the provocateur was a systematic thinker all along.
2012
A ZexArt prose-poem — word-collage in the Burroughs-and-Joyce vein, language run until it fractures into image.
2012
Dense, punning prose-poetry from the ZexArt journal, where the syntax itself becomes the performance.
2012
A stream-of-consciousness prose-poem — associative and incantatory, closer to verse than to essay.
2012
Another of the ZexArt word-collages: meaning assembled and dismantled in the same breath.
2012
The title names the method — language as incantation, repeated until it turns strange.
2012
Punning, self-aware prose-poetry; the writing keeps commenting on its own making.
2012
A prose-poem that slides mid-piece into script and dialogue — the page treated as another broadcast channel.
“A portal a pin prick plastered a cluster star dangle…”
2012
A cosmological prose-poem — the ZexArt voice turned toward fate, chance, and the machinery underneath.
“A convoluted sequence incorrectly dragged innocent individuals into its turbulent whirlpool…”
2012
A late ZexArt prose-poem — compact, dense, and characteristically unmoored from ordinary syntax.
2014
From the WordPress journal — the later, essayistic side of his writing, the systematic thinker arguing in prose.
2014
A piece from the WordPress phase, where the writing turns reasoned and declarative.
2014
Later prose from the WordPress journal — Zex in full theorizing voice.
2014
Later prose framed around language itself — the maze to be navigated rather than merely used.
2014
A character-dialogue piece in the written-Zextalk lineage — invented voices in hermetic, theatrical exchange on the page.
2013
Later prose from the WordPress journal, reaching — as the title suggests — toward the philosophical.
2013
A short, late piece from the WordPress journal.
2013
Later prose from the WordPress phase — self-mythology in a grand key.
2012
An autobiographical-fictional reinvention narrative: shedding the “druggie rocker” crowd, turning to yoga and meditation, then answering a HELP WANTED ad to become a “secret agent.” Wry, self-mythologizing memoir-as-fiction.
2012
Zextalk reimagined as a text script — interview dialogues with invented guests (the Black Witch, Dr. Thought, Mistress Raven, the Demon Queen, the Arachnid Goddess) trading in hermetic magic and cosmic transgression. The television show's DNA translated to the page.
Writings
An early ZexArt prose-poem — dense and associative, recovered from the LiveJournal archive.
A few works survive only on the out-of-print 2-DVD set, The Best of Damon Zex — among them Damon’s Bloodfeast and Hate-O-Rama — and the earliest pieces (Cerebral Cortex Sellout, 1984; GLitznik, 1987) are not known to be online.