Writing
Some of the writing on this page is unpublished and has not been peer reviewed or edited. Please feel free to share comments using the Contact link.
Consensus on the Canon: Towards a Historiography of New Media (2019)
Derived from one chapter of my Master’s thesis, this essay was delivered at RE:SOUND - the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Arts, in Aalborg, Denmark, August 19–23, 2019.
A Vessel, a Veil (2019)
Essay published on the occasion of the exhibition A Vessel, a Veil: New Works by A. Faysal Altunbozar and Martha Poggioli at Space p11, Chicago, USA.
ATS@50: Art and Technology Studies 1969–2019 (2019)
Co-edited with Eduardo Kac. Includes the original essay “Disruptive Generation.” Additional essays by Lee Blalock, John Dunn, Peter Gena, Eduardo Kac, Judy Malloy, Judd Morrissey, Dominique Moulon, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Jacob Tonski, Joan Truckenbrod, Steve Waldeck, and Stephen Wilson. Published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
1:1 (2019)
Catalog essay for the exhibition Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen: My Object Becomes the Shadow of Their Object at Pixlart, Copenhagen, Denmark. Additional essays by Natalie Koerner (DE) and Frederik Rørmann Jørgensen (DK). Published by Spine Studio and Kulturaftale Nordjylland.
The Branding of the Nation: Commercial Nationalism and Shanzhai Culture in Miao Ying’s Chinternet Plus: A Counterfeit Ideology (2018)
An abridged version of this essay was delivered at the ASIA//TECHNICS symposium in Chicago, USA, April 13, 2019.
Anechosis (2018)
Essay originally published in Rehearing/Rehearsing, an artist’s book/catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition William Wiebe: Chekov’s Gun at 062 Gallery, Chicago, USA. Additional essays by Daisy Charles (UK), Daniel Uncapher (US), and William Wiebe (US).
Gilles Deleuze & Gucci Mane: Minor Literature becoming meme (2017)
"Jumping on the Deleuzian academic-bandwagon, let’s ask Gilles for some insight on Gucci Mane."
Projecting Success (2016)
"Examining the performed identities of two contemporary artists—Fahamu Pecou and Jake Patterson—demonstrates how artists occupy “structures of visibility” traditionally reserved for performing celebrity in traditional and non-traditional media."
Portraits of a Post-Internet Society (2015)
"Yung Jake’s use of emoji as a medium, viral images of internet celebrities as subjects, and an exploitation of this celebrity status as a means of artistic dissemination enters the series into contemporary debates regarding language, identity and attention economics."