Academic inquiry and writing are essential parts of my practice as an artist. In addition to an undergraduate degree in design and terminal studio art degree, I hold a humanities-based PhD from Trinity College Dublin, and continue to write articles, chapters, reviews and artist perspectives for various mainstream and academic publications, as well as the spaces between. My writing, like my practical work, combines traditional art historical trajectories with contemporary understandings of interactivity, participation and media, in order to bring new insight to art and art criticism. My texts on contemporary art provide in-depth descriptions not only of what we see and experience, but how we move-in-relation, and what is at stake in such gestures.

I have written on new media for both mainstream publications such as Rhizome, Artthrob, Art South Africa and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and academic presses like Rodopi, the Institute of Network Cultures (University of Amsterdam) and Leonardo (MIT Press). These take the form of: academic treatise on my own work, such as my chapter “Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act” for the book Wikipedia: CPOV (with Scott Kildall); critical analyses and in-depth case studies of others’ work, like my article “The Implicit Body as Performance: Analyzing Interactive Art” in the Leonardo Journal (currently being in turned into a monograph with Gylphi Press); the integration of disparate theories in order to further both my art work and the field of media art at large, as seen in my chapter “The Implicit Body,” in Cyberculture and New Media (with Nicole Ridgway); and book and exhibition reviews, covering volumes and shows that engage with curatorial practice, video art, interactivity, design and more - for example, “New Media, New Modes: On ‘Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media‘” and “Action, Reaction, and Phenomenon” on Rhizome.org. Here I tie my own research and production to broader fields and ongoing and long-standing discourses and dialogs.

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See my CV for various other publications