Index

American Psycho is featured in Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Post-Digital Publishing in Times of Platform Capitalism, published by Spector Books (Leipzig) and edited by Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff. 720 pages.

American Psycho is included in Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023, a landmark anthology published by MIT Press and Counterpath Press, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort.

Panel discussion at Mornings in the Garden, LA Art Book Fair, discussing AI and bookmaking with Adam Lucas. Co-presented by Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Printed Matter.

AutoSummarize — A second edition published with Specific Ideas (Adam Swift Lucas), featuring a foreword by ChatGPT and a barcode by DALL·E. Launched at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair.

AutoSummarize is included in Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art, published by University of Alabama Press and edited by Stephen Tomasula.

I joined an interview and talk with Caroline Sinders at the University of Edinburgh, coordinated by Isabela Cabrera-Lalinde of Edinburgh College of Art.

Atmosphere, “a speculative fiction exquisite corpse under shelter in place” organized by my friend Elia Vargas, and which I contributed to back in the spring, is on exhibition at Accumulations curated by Daniel Lichtman.

I contributed to Atmosphere, “a speculative fiction exquisite corpse under shelter in place” organized by my friend Elia Vargas. On March 16, 2020, at the beginning stages of the global pandemic and social distancing, he initiated an “experiment in thinking together from afar with friends, artists, writers, and educators across five continents.” 42 people from across the planet participated and the final PDF was designed by Natalie Sims. You can find my short piece in the PDF by searching for “new voice task.”

Karl Wolfgang Flender analyzes American Psycho in “American Psycho: Reading an Algorithm in Reverse,” published in Interface Critique Journal No. 2, “Navigating the Human” (Heidelberg University Press, 2019), pp. 197–211.

I wrote a guide on How to make a website for your creative work for The Creative Independent. It’s purpose is to help creative folk get their work on the internet so they can share it with the wider world. Shout out to Sean Suchara for the illustrations. You can also find the post on Fast Company. Edited by Willa Köerner.

I have new work included in a drive-in sound exhibition titled “Away Message” at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. My piece will be broadcast alongside 45 international artists over a low-powered FM transmitter. It’s live from January 10 - February 23, 2019. If you’re driving through Dallas, tune in.

I led a Research Methods workshop at the Phase 1 launch of Lean Artist Chicago (Jeremy Bailey / The Moving Museum), November 11–12, 2017, with Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Jon Chambers, Oscar Gonzalez, and Mashaun Ali Hendricks — in partnership with Lost Arts and the SAIC Shapiro Center. Demo Day followed at MCA Chicago on June 23, 2018.

I’m an expert mentor for PRAKSIS R6: The Artist Entrepreneur in Oslo, May 21 – June 21, 2017 — a month-long residency developed with Jeremy Bailey, UKS, and The Moving Museum, directed by Nicholas Jones. I delivered a two-session workshop, “Empathy & Asking Open Questions,” alongside mentors including Nora O’Murchú, Stephanie Pereira, Marisa Olson, and Silvio Lorusso.

My diagrams were published in Living Room Light Exchange’s second publication State Change. It’s a collection of artists, friends, writing, and commissions focused on the technology and change. Liat Berdugo and Elia Vargas edited the book with design by Natalie Sims.

American Psycho and AutoSummarize are now held in the MoMA Library at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through its acquisition of the Library of the Printed Web — a collection of 244 items by 130 artists curated by Paul Soulellis.

I’m a selected vendor at Internet Yami-Ichi NY2 at Knockdown Center, New York, selling copies of AutoSummarize and 3D printed coins from the circles I showed at Shape Shapes. Organized by exonemo / IDPW, with fellow vendors including Paul Soulellis, Eva & Franco Mattes, Faith Holland, and Daniel Temkin. Covered by Inverse.

I’m giving an artist talk on work-life.tips at ISEA2016, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, hosted by City University of Hong Kong, May 18–21, 2016.

Circles is up at Shape Shapes, Seokhoon Choi’s single-page gallery for artists’ shapes — one show at a time, the whole exhibition an overlay on one web page. Mine came out of a long stretch of research into coins. I 3D printed a few of them later that year and sold them at the Internet Yami-Ichi.

I’m reading at Wordhack XVII on Thursday, November 19th at Babycastles — curated by Claire Donato, feat. Jonathan Basile, Jim Brown & Michael Russo, Flourish Klink and Me.

Five signed, limited edition copies of AutoSummarize will be exhibited at The Société in Belgium — opening October 8th, 2015.

An excerpt from work-life.tips is appearing at the Print Screen festival in the Holon Cinematheque in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 27th.

Two sets of images are included in Printed Web 3, curated by Paul Soulellis: excerpts of my research for real-beauty.pics, and the cable pictures I had been collecting from Reddit threads — the ones tagged FAILS, comms rooms that got away from someone — which six years later became Cable. Paul received over 370 files against the open call. You can read more about the third issue in Paul’s essay Poor Media on Demand: All the files of Printed Web 3 at Rhizome.

Kaja Marczewska writes about American Psycho in “Erasing in the Algorithmic Extreme,” published in the Spring 2015 issue of Media-N, the journal of the New Media Caucus — a special issue on “The Aesthetics of Erasure” edited by Paul Benzon and Sarah Sweeney.

I’m speaking on a panel titled Narrative Fragments: Art, Language, and Algorithm about American Psycho and new work with Mimi Cabell, Nicholas O’Brien, and Liat Berdugo at &Now: Blast Radius at CalArts in Santa Clarita, CA on March 27, 2015.

Lea Muldtofte Olsen wrote about American Psycho in “A Peer-Reviewed Journal About,” out of Aarhus University’s Digital Aesthetics Research Center in partnership with transmediale. She reads it through Derrida and Bernard Stiegler and a concept called grammatization.

A few copies of American Psycho are available at the Yvon Lambert Bookshop in Paris, FR this month. Get them while you can.

American Psycho is featured in It Narratives, an exhibition curated by Brian Droitcour and Zanna Gilbert about art, mail, and the internet on view at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, CT, from September 6th - November 9th, 2014

American Psycho is featured in a write up on Electric Lit. Maru Pabón writes, “It’s a fascinating and unsettling object, a testament to the possibilities of combining digital aesthetics and the traditional book form.”

My work appears in Issue 1 of The Enemy, edited by Charlie White, alongside contributions from Roe Ethridge, Hedi El Kholti, Mike Kelley, Michael Smith, and David Robbins.

The New Britain Museum of American Art published an artist interview with me about The Road Not Taken ahead of the exhibition’s opening reception.

I’ll be giving an artist talk at the New Britain Museum of American Art on Friday September 6th, 2013 at 6:00pm. I’ll be discussing The Road Not Taken and a few other works.

The Road Not Taken is in an upcoming exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT. It runs from July 27 to December 8, 2013. Opening reception is Friday September 6th, 5:30pm to 8:00pm.

I’m a jury member for the Wassaic Artist Residency this season. Check out their current residents.

Endless Opportunities is included in Toonskin, curated by Kenya Robinson at Artspace in New Haven — May 11 to June 30, 2013. The show brought together nineteen artists reinterpreting Blackness, and otherness more broadly, within an animated context, reading sequential art against the minstrel underpinnings of Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse.

I’m a guest critic at the Wassaic Artist Residency Saturday, April 13, 2013. Check out their current residents.

My essay, Beyond the Surface: 15 Years of Desktop Aesthetics, is included in Link Editions “Best of Rhizome 2012” edited by Joanne McNeil.

Endless Opportunities is included in Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, curated by Domenico Quaranta at 319 Scholes in Brooklyn — October 18 to November 4, 2012, alongside JODI, Jon Rafman, Ryan Trecartin, Penelope Umbrico, Clement Valla, Oliver Laric, Constant Dullaart, and Eva & Franco Mattes. The exhibition began at Spazio Contemporanea in Brescia in 2011; the catalogue is published by Link Editions.

American Psycho — A conceptual artist’s book with Mimi Cabell published by Traumawien (Vienna). The entire text of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel was sent through Gmail, collecting Google’s contextual ads which became footnotes, with Ellis’s text then erased. Now has its own Wikipedia article.

American Psycho is featured in the exhibition Erreur d’impression in Jeu de Paume’s online exhibition space, curated by Alessandro Ludovico – October 23, 2012 to March 2014.

I showed work at BYOB Cincy on November 4, 2011 — a one-night bring-your-own-beamer exhibition in the lobby and lower level of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, organized by Jordan Tate, Aaron Walker, and Chris Collins. Everyone hauled in their own projector. Clement Valla came out from Providence with me.

The Story of Art is included in gif. jpg. png. tif., curated by Jess Ramsay at HEREart in New York — opening March 3, 2011. The book sat on a shelf I built and carried down on the bus, with copies of AutoSummarize out on the desk to be handled. Also in the show: Jordan Tate and Adam Tindale, Seyhan Musaoğlu, and Giselle Zatonyl.

AutoSummarize — Algorithmic summaries of the top 100 most downloaded copyright-free books from Project Gutenberg, each reduced to 10 sentences using Microsoft Word’s AutoSummarize function. Featured in The New Yorker and The Rumpus.