Things I’ve written and presented.
BOOKS + BOOK CHAPTERS
[FORTHCOMING, 2025]: Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography (Intellect, Ltd.).
[FORTHCOMING, 2024]: “The New Cameraless, Composite, Synthetic, Post-Photographic, Statistical Image” in Teresa Cruz and Philipp Teuchmann, Eds. Digital Ecology in Arts and Humanities: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Politics (Amsterdam University Press).
2024: “Becoming Camera in Virtual Photography: A Player-Game-Camera Triangularity” in Ali Shobeiri and Helen Westgeest, Eds. Virtual Photography (Transcript Verlag).
2022: “Curating the Digital” in Lu Ann De Cunzo & Catherine Dann Roeber, Eds. Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies (Cambridge University Press).
2015: Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects (Intellect, Ltd.)
2015:‘Digital Steps of Protest, Re-enactment, and Networked Interaction: Joseph DeLappe’s Salt Satyagraha Project’ In Denise Doyle, Ed. New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds (pp. 73-89) Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2023: “Reimagining Archives: Radically Rethinking Design, Identity, and Multiplicity,” Public, Volume 34, Issue 68, Dec 2023, p. 28-38.
2023: “The Ghostwriting Substrate of Creative AI”, FLAT Journal, Issue 03: After Tomorrow.
2022: "Flexibility, Flâneurie, and Affinity in the Metaverse" Baltic Screen Media Review, vol.10, no.2, pp.235-251.
2021: “A Robust Flatness”, FLAT Journal, Issue 02: Touch.
2020: '“A gaze of cruelty, deferred: Actualizing the female gaze in Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome (2017)”. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 7(1).
2018: 'Media Shy: The Perils of Bashfulness in the Digital Age, an Era of Speed, Satisfaction, and Spectacle' in Inês Amaral, Maria João Barata & Vasco Almeida Eds. Interações: Sociedade e as Novas Modernidades (pp. 92–112). Coimbra: Instituto Superior Miguel Torga (in English).
2017: 'The Splintered Self, Digital Otherness and Free Will' in Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, & Ana García López Eds. Con La Red/En La Red: Creación, Investigación y Comunicación Cultural y Artística en la Era de Internet (pp. 403–420). Granada: Universidad de Granada; Downhill Publishing NY (in English).
2016: 'Self-made: Constructing identity at the threshold between virtual and physical realms' in Denise Doyle and Yacov Sharir, Eds. Metaverse Creativity Journal (now Virtual Creativity Journal) Volume 6: Issue 1 (pp. 7-24). Bristol: Intellect, Ltd.
2015: ‘The Importance of Abstraction’ First Person Scholar.
2015: ‘The Language of Repetition’ InterArtive: Original vs. Copy Special Issue #75.
2015:. ‘Mapping the Spaces in Between’ in Chloe Sugden & Christopher Williams-Winn, Eds. Dissect Journal Issue #2.
2014: ‘The In-Betweenness of Cinema’ Alice, Journal of the Department of MFA Photography, Video and Related Media (Visual Arts Press)
EXHIBITION TEXTS + CATALOGUE ESSAYS + ARTIST MONOGRAPHS
2024:. SHENG 生 2.0, catalogue essay for group exhibition curated by Snow Yunxue Fu and Daughter Ice presented in the online digital media platform CIFRA.
2024: Ida Kvetny and Diana Veslasco’s Future Fossils: Exploring Virtual Realms exhibition at Centre Pompidou Málaga, Málaga, SP.
2024: Select texts in Ida Kvetny’s artist monograph Hybrid Realms, Copenhagen: IK Studio.
2023: SHENG 生, catalogue essay for group exhibition curated by Snow Yunxue Fu and Daughter Ice presented in the metaverse space VR WSPark, created by Fu and co-hosted by DSLCollection.
2022: “The Counterpoetics of Joseph DeLappe” in Resistance, Work, Memory and Play: The Work of Joseph DeLappe [Exhibition Catalogue]. Norman, OK, US : Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
2022: “Suspended dislocations” in Laure Catugier’s artist monograph, Architecture is frozen music. Paris: NAIMA Editions.
ART REVIEWS
2024:. Review of eteam + lololol at PS122: “Semi-conducting Hand-held Moons”, Millennium Film Journal, Issue 79, Re-presentation.
2023:. eteam’s“Our Non-Understanding of Everything” at CREATE Gallery Review, Chronogram.com.
2023: “The Power of Small Hidden Networks”, Institute of Network Cultures.
2023: “Donna Dennis’s Ship/Dock/Three Houses and the Night Sky Takes Over the Private Public Gallery” Review, Chronogram.com.
2023: “Fern T. Apfel’s ‘Abide With Me’ at the Arts Center of the Capital Region” Review, Chronogram.com.
2022: “The Moving Picture Show” Review, Millennium Film Journal, Issue 76: Worlds.
2022: “‘A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco’ at Thomas Cole National Historic Site” Review, Chronogram.com.
2021: “The Strangely Familiar in Wen-Han Chang’s Strange World’” Review, Ultra Dogme.
2021: “Seeing the Possibilities, Seeing Red” Kolaj Magazine, #34.
2021: “Performing the Archive: On Carla Gannis’s wwwunderkammer”, Institute of Network Cultures.
2020: “Within the Spectrum of a Gaze: Tooraj Khamenehzadeh’s Inspired Tableaux Vivants” Photography Magazine, Vol. 2. (translated to Farsi for publication; available here in English)
2007: ‘Game Art Installation ‘Ripon’’ New Media Fix.
2007: ‘War in Videogame Art: What If We Played A War And Nobody Won?’ Furtherfield.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS
2024: “Ontologies of AI Photography," Helsinki Photomedia 6th International Photography Research Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI.
2023: “The new composite, cameraless, statistical, post-photographic, synthetic image," Arts & Humanities in Digital Transition Conference, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT.
2023: "A Metaverse of Fluidity, Inclusivity + Plurality," Science, Technology and Society (STS) Conference, Graz University of Technology, Graz, AT (online).
2018: "A Gaze of Cruelty, Deferred: An Examination of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome (2017)," Society for Media and Cinema Studies Conference, Toronto, ON.
2017: “The Balancing Act Between Machine and Emotional Intelligence,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2016: “Inside the Internet: On Making the Invisible Visible,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2015: “The Importance of Abstraction,” Different Games Conference, Brooklyn, NY.
2015: “Database Aesthetics: How Computer Logic Shapes the Moving Image in Digital Art,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2014: “The Color of Absence,” Rendering the Visible (II): Figure Conference, Moving Image Studies Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2014: “A Cinema of Perpetual Invisibility,” Film Theory and Aesthetics area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2013: “Crowding Digital Space,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2012: “The Presence and Absence of Engagement,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2011: “Being Without Being: A Philosophical Exploration of Temporal and Spatial Dimensions in Video Games,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.
2011: “First Culture in Second Life,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.