Books: Author
2026 AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (Lund Humphries, UK). Part of the New Horizons in Contemporary Art Series.
2019 Seeing, Naming, Knowing, published by The Brooklyn Rail. (PDF Linked). Designed by Mike Tully. Translated into Spanish by Diego Gerard in Mexico City and published as Ver, Nombrar, Saber by diSONARE.
2017 Fear Indexing the X-Files, co-authored with Steven Warwick, published by Primary Information, New York, NY. (PDF Linked).
Books, Commissioned Essays: Author,
2026 On Jacolby Satterwhite, for Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman, an exhibition on AI, performance, and surrealism to be exhibited at the Frist Museum in 2026. Published by MIT Press. Curator: Mark Scala.
2026 On artist Lynne Marsh, for She Moves Me | Performance, Moving Image, and Lynne Marsh’s Lens. Published by Inventory Press. Edited by Sylvie Fortin.
2023 On artist Josh Kline, for his Whitney Museum Solo Exhibition, Project for a New American Century. Published by Yale University Press.
2023 “Mirroring, Recognition and Possibility,” Gold Art Prize Catalog Essay, on the finalists for Gold Art Prize: Tishan Hsu, Mire Lee, Ami Lien and Enzo Camacho, Gala Porras-Kim, and Wangshui. Published by Wkshps.
2021 On Raphael Hefti, Salutary Failures, Published by Lenz Press, on occasion of Kunsthalle Basel solo exhibition. Translated into German. Invited by Fabian Schöneich.
2021 “At the frontier of land and sea,” on Jakob Steensen’s Liminal Lands, Luma Foundation. Translated into French. Invited by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Senior Curator.
2021 “Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence,” revised for 2021, in Atlas of Anomalous AI, edited by Kenric McDowell and Ben Vickers. Published by Ignota Books.
2020 “Narrating the World,” monograph in Collective Intelligence, Agnieszka Kurant. MIT and Sternberg Press.
2019 “Imagining Their Belief,” in artist Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy Reader, published by Information Office. Translated into German.
2019 “Towards Universal Pattern Recognition,” Jeremy Shaw, published by Centre Pompidou and Swiss Institute, Exhibition Catalogue for Phase Shifting Index, Centre Pompidou. Translated into French.
2019 “Notes on Disassociative Systems,” in Low Form: Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, CURA Books, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy.
2019 “Spiritual Debts,” For Agnieszka Polska, The Demon’s Brain, Cornerhouse Publications. Translated into German.
2018 “Past the Incomputable,” in Entangled Realities: Living with Artificial Intelligence, HeK Basel.
2018 “Acquisition: God Object; Acquisition: Source Code,” in Sondra Perry: Typhoon Coming On, published by Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books. Commissioned by curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad. Alongside essays by Elizabeth Alexander, Hito Steyerl, Soyoung Yoon, and Hannah Black.
2018 “Young Ancient,” in Emissaries Guide to Worlding, Ian Cheng, published by Serpentine Galleries, Koenig Books, and Fondazion Sandretto Rebaudengo. Commissioned by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rebecca Lewis.
2018 “Simulating Control,” in Becoming Dangerous, published by Fiction and Feeling, UK.
2017 “Moving Past Eyelessness,” in If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen With Your Eyes, Katja Novitskova, published by Sternberg Press on the occasion of representing Estonia in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
2016 Dawn Mission, artist’s book by Katja Novitskova, for Novitskova’s solo exhibition, Dawn Mission, Kunstverein in Hamburg, and published by Mousse Publishing.
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