Best of: Stepford Apps / Workoholic Holograms/ Postcards from the Futch / The Junk Ships on Alibaba / My Broken iPhone/ Touch to Feel / Overfutured / Tiny Proofs / The Never Forgotten House / Movies to See Alone / Mirror with Memory and a Blind Spot / The Internet of Things Will Ruin Birthdays / In Aura / Screenshots as POV / o<
Book:
LURKING, coming soon.
Publications:
Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes Contributor (New Documents, 2016), Borrowing, Poaching…., Contributor, (The Piracy Project/AND Publishing, 2015), The Atlas of Contemporary Networks, Contributor, (IUAV Venice, 2015), Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, Contributor (Walker Center/Coffee House, 2015), Art and the Internet, Contributor (Black Dog Publishing, 2014), The Junk Ships on Alibaba, Author, (Piracy Papers/AND Publishing 2014), SQM: The Quantified Home, Contributor (Lars Müller Publishers, 2014), App Art, Contributor (ZKM, forthcoming), Best of Rhizome 2012, Editor (Link Editions)
Fiction:
- The Newcomer, Failed States, 2019
- Users, Noon Magazine, 2018
- After the Eclipse on Paragon Hill, Eclipsecore, 2017
Articles/Essays/Criticism:
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- When 2019 Was the Future, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2019
- The Windshield and the Screen, Unthinking Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, February, 2019
- All the Work Without the Workers, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter 2019
- Building a Digital Hospice, NiemanLab, Predictions for Journalism 2019
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- Big Brother’s Blind Spot, The Baffler, July/August 2018
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- Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers, NiemanLab, Predictions for Journalism 2018
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- Listening to a Face,Unthinking Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, December 2016.
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- Why Do I Have to Call This App ‘Julie’? New York Times, Sunday Review section, December 20, 2015
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- Fear of Zero Bars Haunted Machines, March 2015
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- The Patriotic Face Saturated Space, December 2014
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- The Dads of Tech, (co-written with Astra Taylor) The Baffler, Winter 2014
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- Watching Foam Rise Dirty Furniture, Issue 1
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- Dronism, (co-written with Ingrid Burrington) Dissent, Spring 2014
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- Look Inside, Frieze, January 2014
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- A Real Horrorshow, Hysterical Literature, December 2013
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- The Price You Pay, Medium, September 23, 2013
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- Tiny Proofs of the Existence of the Eiffel Tower, Medium, September 2, 2013
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- A Dispatch From Manning’s Conviction The Atlantic, August 14 2013
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- Manning on Trial, Jacobin, July 23, 2013
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- Mirror with Memory and a Blind Spot, Medium, July 8, 2013
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- Prêt à travailler: workaholic holograms, Domus, May 2013
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- On the intricacies of Hollywood archaeology, Wired UK, July 2012
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- Tacita Dean, The Paris Review, June 25, 2012
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- In lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self, Los Angeles Times, June 03, 2012
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- Lygia Pape, Modern Painters, May 2012
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- Escape the Map, Semionaut, April 2012
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- Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith Frieze, April 20, 2011
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- Where are the iPhone Addicts and Facebook Stalkers in Contemporary Fiction? Mediaite/Huffington Post, Oct 13, 2010.
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- Tracking memes on their native turf Nieman Lab, May 5, 2010
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- There’s an app for this The Boston Globe, January 10, 2010
- Grain Thing Significant Objects, August 26, 2009
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- Death of a Dystopian: The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard Reason, July 2009
Column: Medium’s The Message (personal archive) 2014 – 2015. Selected essays: The Internet of Things Will Ruin Birthdays: Birthday harassment from brands and data tracking disguised as warm wishes, Postcards from the Futch: Nothing looks like the past like talking about “the future” of the internet, The Apple Watch is a Watch: Apple design after Steve Jobs, Sound and Memory: We need an Instagram for field recordings, iPhone Dreams: Renders from 2006 tell us everything about what we used to think a phone could be, The Internet is Real: Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road trial, and the quasi-fictions of internet culture, Block by Block: Learning to love the block button. Learning to love being blocked, The Facebook Bully: what happens when the platform itself is the source of online abuse Clothing as SOS: The challenges of building wearables for personal safety without burdening a victim, Harassed by Algorithms: A user recommended as “similar to you” might be dangerous, Screenshots as POV: Your point of view from the GoPro camera to the screen, In Aura: Migraine aura illustrations as online folk art (full archive...)
Misc:
- All My Stars newsletter
- jomc.links rss / Internet of Dreams rss
- The Tomorrow Museum (2008-2011, link to Internet Archive)
Catalog essays:
- The Windshield and the Screen, Unthinking Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, February, 2019
- The Community of Everybody and Nobody, I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA, 2018
- You May Also Like: Robert Stadler, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Brühlsche Terrasse, 2017
- The Simplest Forms of Communication, Schirn, Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
- Jon Rafman’s 9 Eyes, Contributor, Fillip/New Documents, 2016
- Olia Lialina’s My Boyfriend Came Back From The War. Online since 1996, House of Electronic Arts (HeK) Basel, 2016
- Albertine Meunier, My Google Search History, the book: Volume 2, 2016
- Listening to a Face, Unthinking Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, December 2016
- Borrowing, Poaching…., The Piracy Project/AND Publishing, 2015
- The Atlas of Contemporary Networks, IUAV Venice, 2015
- Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Hard Copy, NOME, 2015
- Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, Walker Art Center/Coffee House Press, 2015
- Fear of Zero Bars Haunted Machines, March 2015
- The Patriotic Face Saturated Space, December 2014
- Art and the Internet, Contributor, Black Dog Publishing, 2014
- The Junk Ships on Alibaba, Author, Piracy Papers/AND Publishing, 2014
SQM: The Quantified Home, Contributor, Lars Müller Publishers, 2014 - Touch to Feel, TTTT, Jerwood Space, 2014
- The Dust of the Future, Maurice Carlin’s Performance Publishing: Regents Trading Estate/ The State, 2014
- Best of Rhizome 2012, Editor, Link Editions, 2013
“Endless Archive” Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age Spazio Contemporanea, Corsetto Sant’Agata, 22 – Brescia September 24 – October 1, 2011 - Overfutured for Free exhibition The New Museum, October 20, 2010 ~ January 23, 2011
A selection of posts for the Rhizome.org blog:
Architectural Uncanny Valley / A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem / The Artist Google Street View Photographed Twice / Jeff Noon’s Sporecast / The Eternal Internet Brotherhood / Improving Prometheus / Artist Profile: Adam Harvey / Past and Present in “Strange Simultaneity”: Mark Fisher Explains Hauntology at NYU / Put a Corinthian Column on It / Artist Profile: Adam Harvey / Artist Profile: Ed Fornieles / Snapshots of Occupy Wall Street / Stranger Interactions with Kio Stark / Cole Stryker, Author of “Epic Win for Anonymous” on Interior Semiotics, Context Collapse, and “You Rage You Lose” / Connecting at ContactCon / Artist Profile: James Howard / Artist Profile: Duncan Malashock