Writings on Contemporary Art and New Media
Books
Essays & Choice Morsels
“Notes on Art and Healing: Shamanism, New Media, and Technoshamanism“(2023)
“Deus ex Poiesis: The End of the World and the Future of Art and Technology”
(Eng/Span, 2022)
“A Sounding Happens: Pauline Oliveros, Expanded Consciousness, and Healing” (2017)
“Tipping the Scales: The Harrisons and the Force Majeure” (2017)
“Contemporary Art and New Media: Hybrid Discourse
or Digital Divide?” (2016) <Portuguese Trans>
Yolande Harris: Listening to the Distance (exhib cat). Ed. and essay (2016)
“Love Is a Good Place to Start: A Conversation with Ken Feingold” (English/Polish) (2015)
“In Forming Software: Software, Structuralism, Demythification” (2014)
“Bringing To and Bringing Out: Art, Culture, and Social Media”
Whitney Shared Spaces symposium, 2014.
135MB .pptx and Video of talk
Computing, Aesthetic (Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2014)
“Broken Circle &/ Spiral Hill: Smithson’s Spirals,
Pataphysics, Syzygy, and Survival” 2013. ISEA 2012 presentation .pdf
“In Forming Software: Software, Structuralism, Dematerialization” (2012)
“Investigatory Art: Real Time Systems and Network Culture” (2012)
Hohenberg Chair lecture presentation .pdf (2.5MB)
“Tuning in and Spacing Out: Notes on the Presentness of Sound” (2012)
“Contemporary Art and New Media: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?” (2011)
“Alternative Nows and Thens to Be: Re-imagining History to (Re)View the Future – Photography, New Media, and Art Historical Revision” (2011)
<Spanish translation, 2011> <Polish translation, 2014>
“The History and Future of the Lab: Collaborative Research at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology” (2010) Catalan: “Història i Futur del Laboratori…”
“Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography” (2009)
“Technogenesis: Aesthetic Dimensions of Art and Biotechnology” (2008)
“Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method, Firing a Canon” (2007)
Portuguese: “Historicizar Arte e Tecnologia…”
Italian: “Storicizzando arte e tecnologia…”
Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary
Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms” (2005). Video of lecture.
“Hot to Bot: Pygmalion’s Lust, the Maharal’s Fear, and the Cyborg Future of Art” (2005)
Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s (2002).
“Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art” (2001).
Italian: “L’arte nell’era dell’informazione…”
Realplayer Video of talk at UCLA Design|Media Arts, 2000.
“Telematic Embrace: A Love Story? Roy Ascott’s Theory of Telematic Art” (2001) “L’abbraccio telematico: Una storia d’amore?” (Italian)
“Missing in Action: Agency and Meaning in Interactive Art” (2000-11)
“Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning” (1.8MB .pdf) (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” (1998) ArtByte (juicy design, no footnotes 9MB .pdf); Full draft with notes (350k .pdf)
“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)
Other Tasty Tidbits
“Sporadical Fallout: The World After Us” (spoken word performance, 2022)
“Sporadical Fallout: The World After Us” (poem, 2019)
“Conversa com Edward Shanken” (interview D Gasparetto, Portuguese, 2014)
“The $34.2 million Question:
Writing Histories or Staging Alternative Futures” (2013)
“Not Just Smoke and Mirrors: rAndom International” (2013)
“Betwixt and Between, or Notes on Observing:
Michael Joaquin Grey’s Between Simonetta”(1.5MB .pdf, Ger/Eng 2011)
“Edward Shanken on ‘Is New Media Accepted in the Artworld?'” (2011)
“Response to Domenico Quaranta’s ‘The Postmedia Perspective'” (2011)
“Contemporary Art and New Media: Outline for Developing a Hybrid Discourse” (2010) 
“Knowing Art/Transcending Science:
Perception, Consciousness, Synchronicity and Transgnosis” (2010)
“Art and Science: A Renewed Unity! Collaborative Research,
Transdisciplinary Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms,” (2009)
“Inventing the Future: Art and Net Ontologies,” (2009)
“Lev Manovich on ‘Cultural Analytics’ at Paradiso” (2009)
“The Video Mirror and Its Genetic Double: Richard Kriesche’s Twins Reflected through
‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,’” (Eng/German, 2008
)
“The Imploding Cube Meets the Beating Heart: The Gestalt of
Andres Ramirez Gaviria’s ‘0.’ And ‘Resonance’” (2008)
“Review: 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)
Dissertation
Art In The Information Age: Cybernetics, Software, Telematics and the
Conceptual Contributions of Art and Technology to Art History and Aesthetic Theory. Duke University, 2001.
Videos of Lectures
- “Surveillance Culture: Art and Critical Social Practice,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2014.
- “Bringing To or Bringing Out: Art, Culture, New Media,” Whitney Museum, 2014.
- “The History and Future of the Lab: Collaborative Research at the Intersections
of Art, Science, and Technology,’ Art Center College of Design, 2012. - “Alternative Nows and Thens to Be: Photography, New Media,
and Art Historical Revision,” UC Santa Barbara, 2012.
Documentary Film
Free Space: Process – Collaboration – Performance (28 min, color, 2003)
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