My interests span cultural studies, media theory, and aesthetics. Much of my writing explores how artists engage emerging mediums and formats. More recently, I’ve focused on musical instruments—electronic and digital, mass-market and DIY.
Recent Writing, Interviews, and Profiles:
- “Interview XR: Savannah Niles,” Québec/Canada XR
- “Tosca Terán Has a Brand New Spawn Bag,” Musicworks 135
- “Introducing COSA, the Clinic for Open Source Arts” (for COSA)
Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Essays:
- “New Twists in Circuit Bending,” Musicworks 131, 2018
- “The Music of Interface,” Musicworks 129, 2017
- “Divide-and-conquer: Jesse Colin Jackson’s Marching Cubes,” ESPACE 116, 2017
- “Trickle Down Aesthetics—Cellular Automata in recent works by Troika,” CreativeApplications.Net, 2017
- “It's About Time: Prototyping and Intent,” V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Blowup Reader 8, 2014
- “Can sound be spaceless?,” Surrounding Sound, 2014
- “War Rooms”, ICON 109, 2012
- “Critical Sections,” Vectors 3 (2), 2012 (with Erik Loyer)
- “Urban Screens: The Schematic City in Gaming and Architectural Representation,” 3:AM Magazine, 2010
- “Notes on Going Under: A DEVO Primer,” Rhizome, 2009
- “Information Visualization and Interface Culture,” Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics, 2009
Selected Catalogue Essays:
- “Parsing the Database of Ruin: Daito Manabe's Invisible War,” Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild (Paris, FRA), 2019 (with Alexander Scholz)
- “Our Gaze is the Projector Now—‘100% Cinema’ in Jeremy Rotsztain’s House of Shadow Silence,” Academy Theatre (Portland, USA), 2017
- “The Totally Superfluous Catalogue Essay for Zach Lieberman’s Instagram Account,” A-B-Z-INE 2, 2017
- “Flatland: Matthew Biederman's Serial Mutations (X-axis),” Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain Project Space (Montreal, CAN), 2014
- “Invisible Forces, Domestic Rhythms: Darsha Hewitt's Electrostatic Bell Choir,” Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montreal, CAN), 2013
- “Material, Immaterial: Jillian Ross & Liam Wylie's Double Back,” InterAccess (Toronto, CAN), 2012
- “Continuous City: Tori Foster’s The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian,” Convenience Gallery (Toronto, CAN), 2010