Writings on Contemporary Art and New Media

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Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2009) Reviews

Telematic Embrace:
Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness
Edited collection of essays by  Roy Ascott (U Cal Press, 2003). Reviews

“Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography” (2009).

“Technogenesis: Aesthetic Dimensions of Art and Biotechnology”
16.7MB .pdf (with S. Anker, S. Lindee, D. Nelkin, 2008).

“Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon” in Media Art Histories, MIT Press, 2007.

“Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms” (2005).  Video of lecture at UCLA Art|Sci Center (Realplayer)

“Hot2Bot: Pygmalion’s Lust, the Maharal’s Fear, and the Cyborg Future of Art” (2005).

“Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art” (2002).

“Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s” (2002).

“Telematic Embrace:  A Love Story?  Roy Ascott’s Theory of Telematic Art” (2001).

“Missing in Action: Agency and Meaning in Interactive Art” (2000, with Kristine Stiles) unpublished.

“Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning” (2000).

“Life as We Know It, and/or Life as It Could Be: Epistemology and the Ontology/Ontogeny of Artificial Life” (1998).

“The House that Jack Built: Jack Burnham’s Concept of Software as a Metaphor for Art” (1998).

“From Drips to ZOOBS: The Cosmology of Artist/Inventor Michael Grey” (full text w/ footnotes, 1998) ArtByte article (juicy design), 1998.

“Gemini Rising, Moon in Apollo: Art and Technology in the US, 1966-1971” (1997).

“Technology and Intuition – A Love Story?  Roy Ascott’s ‘Telematic Embrace’” (1997).

“Virtual Perspective and the Artistic Vision: A Genealogy of Technology, Perception and Power” (1996).

<< Reviews and Catalog Essays >>

“Inventing the Future:  Art and Net Ontologies,” with Annet Dekker, 2009.

“The Video Mirror and Its Genetic Double:  Richard Kriesche’s Twins as Reflected Through Benjamin’s ‘Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,’” 2008.

“The Imploding Cube Meets the Beating Heart: The Gestalt of Andres Ramirez Gaviria’s ‘0.’ And ‘Resonance, ’” 2008.

“PICNIC 2008: ‘Three Days of Miracle and Wonder?’” (2008).

SONAR 2006 Review (2006).

“Lowell Boyers: Inhale Exhale” (2006).

“Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Headless Two-Headed Hydra, or, the Art of Michael Rees” (2005).

“Pioneers of Art and Science: Metzger (review of Gustav Metzger DVD)” (2005).

Telematic Embrace: A Love Story? Roy Ascott’s Theories of Telematic Art (2001).

“Divided We Stand: Interactive Art and the Limits of Freedom” (1997).

“Jeffrey Shaw’s Golden Calf: Art Meets Religion and Virtual Reality” (1994).

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