My interests span cultural studies, media theory, and aesthetics. Much of my writing explores artists’ weaponization of emerging mediums and formats. More recently, I’ve been focusing on musical instruments—electronic and digital, mass-market and DIY—and sound.
Recent Writing:
- “Tosca Terán Has a Brand New Spawn Bag,” Musicworks 135
- “Intersections—The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Celebrates its 30th Anniversary,” CreativeApplications.Net
- “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