This article was originally published by Fabrik in February 2018. In Hương Ngô’s latest exhibition, Reap The Whirlwind, the artist samples archival documents, vintage pulp novels, film sequences and historic postcards to recover representations of Indochinese women. Using distinct material reproduction techniques, Ngô questions the politics… +
The following article was first published by The Seen in December 2018. Currently on view at Monique Meloche Gallery is new work by Ebony G. Patterson, …for those who bear/bare witness…, a solo show that explores the slip between human visibility and invisibility within our societal and material conditions. Patterson’s… +
The following article was first published by the Chicago Reader in November, 2018. Chicago isn’t immediately associated with technology’s vanguard in the popular imagination. But Gallery 400’s current exhibition, “Chicago New Media 1973-1992,” focuses on the city’s contribution to new media history through a broad installation… +
Happy to be included in this new book, edited by Giovanni Aloi, and published by Brill (Nov 2018). Winner of the 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in… +
“Does the digital envy the analog, the haptic sense of its excesses, the paper trail’s disarray? Is it nostalgic for the language and forms that filled the briefcases of bureaucracy? Does it envy the overflow of books and paper onto desks and floors and burgeoning… +