My writing is centred on art, media, and technology. I’m interested in how artists weaponize ‘new media’ and challenge notions of obsolescence, and how the involved technologies make subjects of us all.
Recent Writing:
- “Parsing the Database of Ruin: Daito Manabe's Invisible War,” Apr 2019 (with Alexander Scholz)
- “Learning from LUST,” Back Office 2, Apr 2018 (with Michèle Champagne)
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:
- “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,” 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