Selected writing on media art and visual culture
Essays
“Our Violent Commons \ The Territory of Listening,”
World Records Vol. 4: In The Presence of Others, Edited by Nicholas Gamso and Jason Fox, Fall 2020
Responding to: “Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s rethinking of the relationship between violence and the commons in contemporary cultural production and political organizing.“
Documenting Place: Collective Storytelling, Community Engagement and Documentary Practice, Part 3: “Place of the Big River: Entangled Stories from and Altered Landscape,” Pluralities Nonfiction Journal Vol 2: Spaces, Places Belonging, Documentary Film Institute, San Francisco State University, 2019
“The Image of Empathy and Becoming in 1970s Star Trek Cosplay,” ELSE Journal, Issue 2, “The Imperceptible Self,” March 2017
“Cinematic Time Replayed – On two exhibitions: Hubbard and Birchler’s Méliès at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and Christian Marclay’s The Clock at Paula Cooper Gallery” (essay/review), Millennium Film Journal 54, November 2011 – PDF
“The Family Analog: Borrowing and Ordering the Many” – A talk on the digital archiving of images of people, presented on the panel “Family Resemblances, Personal Archives,” Visible Evidence 18, NYU, NYC, August 2011. PDF
“The High Line: Monument to Modern Ruin” (essay)
Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 38, Issue 2, Oct/Nov 2010 PDF
“Katrin Sigurdardottir” (artist profile for special issue on art and architecture) Contemporary-Magazine no. 87, 2006
Reviews
“Jenny Perlin: The Wonder,” review of exhibition at the James Gallery, Millennium Film Journal #83, Round and Round, Spring 2026
“Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP,” review of MoMA exhibition, Millennium Film Journal #82, Real Life, Fall 2025
“Studio Visit with Jen Liu,” Millennium Film Journal #74,
Fact / Artifact, Spring 2021
“The Image You Missed and Empty Metal at RIDM,” Millennium Film Journal #69, Deep Cuts, Spring 2019
“The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing: Dustin Grella and Dusty Studio” (cover story and inaugural studio visit feature on stop-motion animator Dustin Grella), Millennium Film Journal 68, Fall 2018
“Naeem Mohaiemen’s Tripoli Cancelled” (review of exhibition at PS1 MoMA, NYC), Millennium Film Journal 67, Spring 2018
“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” (review of exhibition at The New Museum, NYC), Millennium Film Journal 65, Spring 2017
“Omer Fast” at James Cohan Gallery (review of exhibition) Millennium Film Journal 64, Image Machines, Fall 2016
“Hito Steyerl at Artists Space” (review of exhibition) Millennium Film Journal 62, New Books, Fall 2015 – PDF
“Amie Siegel: Provenance” (review of film installation) Millennium Film Journal 61, World Views, May 2015 – PDF
“Our Nixon” (essay/review of the film) Millennium Film Journal 59, part II of the Since ’78 and Beyond anniversary issue, May 2014 – PDF
“JODI: Street Digital” (essay/review on exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image) Millennium Film Journal 56, October 2012 – PDF
“The Territory of Images – Harun Farocki, Images of War at a Distance” (essay/review on the exhibition at MoMA) Millennium Film Journal 55, March 2012 – PDF
“The World According to New Orleans,” Ballroom, Marfa, Marfa, Texas,
…might be good e-journal #169, 2011
“Hubbard/Birchler,” Tonya Bonakdar Gallery, NYC
…might be good e-journal #162, 2011
“Ecotopia, International Center for Photography, NYC”
Contemporary-Magazine no. 88, 2007
Flash Art Reviews
“Guy Ben-Ner: Stealing Beauty & I’d give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it,” Postmasters, NYC, Flash Art International, Mar/Apr 2008
“Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project,” Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC,
Flash Art International, Jan/Feb 2007
“Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing,” Whitney Museum, NYC, Flash Art, Mar/Apr 2004
“Momoyo Torimitsu,” Swiss Institute, NYC, Flash Art, Mar/Apr 2004
“Jan Mancuska,” Andrew Kreps, NYC, Flash Art, #235, Mar/Apr 2004
“Omer Fast,” Postmasters, NYC, Flash Art, May/Jun 2003