USCO

American, b. 1964

USCO (Company of US) is a collective of mainly artists, poets, filmmakers, and engineers that formed in the fall of 1964. As artist and USCO member Dion Wright writes, “The aim of USCO was to have a mutual association without an executive head on it; a true brotherhood of equal opportunity from which visionary projects might emerge by general agreement and a sort of spontaneous combustion.”

The founding members of USCO were poet Gerd Stern, electronic technician Michael Callahan, and ex-Pop art painter Steve Durkee (aka Stephen Durkee, later known as Nooruddeen Durkee).