publications

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Books

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, February 2016)

Edited Collections

Materials and Media of Infrastructure, co-edited with Rafico Ruiz. Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication 42(2). May 2021.

Biometrics: Mediating Bodies, co-edited with David Grondin. Special issue of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. no. 60 (Spring 2020).

Technologies of Wonder, Special section in Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, CAA Conference Edition, Summer 2015.

LAND/SLIDE: Possible Futures: A Public Art Intervention, co-edited with Janine Marchessault, Chloë Brushwood Rose, and Jennifer Foster (35 artist statements, interviews, archival reproductions and 6 critical essays) (Toronto: PUBLIC Books, 2015).
· Review in Hyperallergic

Public? Special 20th Anniversary Issue, co-edited with Janine Marchessault and Jason Rovito,  PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. no. 37 (Fall 2008).

Articles

“The Perfect Cut: Talking with Myriam Dion,” with Juliette De Maeyer, in collaboration with Ghislain Thibault and Alysse Kushinski, Inscriptions no. 2: 65–72. Online

Paper Infrastructures: Learning from The Bowater Papers, 1953–1958, with Rafico Ruiz. Canadian Journal of Communication 46(2): 315–343.

The Intrinsic Value of Valuable Paper: On the Infrastructural Work of Authentication Devices,” Theory, Culture & Society, First online publication, April 2020.

Don’t Copy That: Security Printing and the Making of High-Tech Paper,” Convergence, The International Journal into New Media Technologies special issue on Rethinking the Distinction Between Old and New Media (2019), Vol. 25(4): 590–­606.

Storing Authenticity at the Surface and into the Depths: Securing Paper with Human- and Machine- Readable Devices,” Intermédialités/Intermediality, no: 32 (Fall 2018) issue on Cacher/Concealing.

On the Concept of Recognition in Media Art: Emotional Reactions, Empathetic Interactions,” Proceedings from EVA Copenhagen 2018 (Politics of the Machine: Art and After), Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), British Computing Society, September 2018.

“Nano-Optical Image-Making: Morphologies, Devices, Speculations,”  Leonardo, no. 53(2) (April 2020): 167–173. Accepted (First Online) January 2018. 

“Audible Walls, Breathing Vaults, and the Fantastic Sites of Re-Imagination,”  Acoustic Space 15: OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society,  October 2016, pp. 200-210.

“Seeing Nano: Vision, Optics, and the Sight of Impossible Things,” Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, Summer 2015.

“Designing Nano-Media Across Disciplines: Circular Genealogies and Collaborative Methodologies at the Optical Frontier,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Vancouver Summer 2015.

“The Heritage Village: Sifting through Immaterial Histories of Land,” with Janine Marchessault, Transformations Journal. no. 25: New Immaterialities (Fall 2014).

“Site-Specificity in the Post-Socialist City: Mediation and Memory in the Work of Polish Artists Rafal Jakubowicz and Aleksandra Polisiewicz,” Space and Culture. vol. 16, no. 4 (Nov 2013): pp. 416–434. doi: 10.1177/1206331212452350.

“Here, But Not Now: A Local Tour of a Global Future in The Afterlife of Buildings,” with Eva Woyzbun. Material Culture Review. vol. 71 (Spring 2010): 98–110.

“Locating the Ephemeral: Capturing the Fleeting Moment in Digital Arts,” International Journal of Arts and Technology: Special Issue on Digital Art. vol. 2, no. 1/2 (2009): 40–50.

Chapters in Books

“Real and Virtual Histories of Past and Future in the Heritage Village,” with Janine Marchessault, Land/Slide: Possible Futures: A Public Art Intervention (Toronto: PUBLIC Books, 2015), pp. 180–193.

Book Reviews

“Media Theory at the Limits of Communication,” Review of Excommunication: Three Inquires into Media and Mediation by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker and McKenzie Wark (MIT Press: 2013). Reviews in Cultural Theory, January 2015.

“Shared Time and Experiences of the Present in Antinomies of Art and Culture,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. no. 22 (Fall 2009).

“Towards an Urban Aesthetics,” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. no. 37 (Fall 2008): 176–180.

Other

Introduction to Materials and Media of Infrastructure, special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication, with Rafico Ruiz. Canadian Journal of Communication 46(2): 143–150.

Introduction, with David Grondin, special issue of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas on Biometrics: Mediating Bodies, co-edited with David Grondin, no. 60 (Spring 2020), pp. 7–13.

“Technologies of Wonder,” Introduction to CAA special section, Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, Summer 2015.

“Mediating Poles: Media Art and Critical Experiments of the Polish Site, 2004–2009,” Top-Rated LABS Abstracts, Leonardo Abstract Service 2014; Leonardo Journal and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Early Access July 30, 2015.

“Precarious Theories of Labour in the Cultural Sphere,” Kapsula. Acting Out 3.3 (December 2014): 36–37.

“Nanotechnology goes PUBLIC,” PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. no. 50 (Fall 2014): 3.

“A PUBLIC Retreat,” with Sarah Blacker. The Capilano Review. vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 226–227.

“Interview with Aneta Szylak, Director of Wyspa Institute of Art,” Art Margins (June 2011).

“Collect My Junk: An Experiment in Urban Methodology,” with Angela Joosse and Shana Macdonald. PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas. no. 37 (Fall 2008): 97–100.

Translation

Translation from the Polish of “Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case” by Bohdan Kosiński, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tomasz Zygadło (1971), with Monika Murawska. In Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology, ed. Scott MacKenzie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), 464–468.