Selected Writing

architecture, art, body politics, design, film theory, speculative futures, technology

 

27/05/22 Spinners of Fate with One Broken Face

Deepfake portraiture.

27/05/22 BATSHIT TIMES Volume 3: Fall of Rome

Letter from the Editor, roleplaying as a town herald in ancient Rome.

21/01/22 BATSHIT TIMES WAS HERE

Reflections on the first two years of BATSHIT TIMES Magazine, online and off.

23/10/20 The New Interface

Photoessay on the Modern Man — a fully breathing, functioning plastic machine.

9/5/18 This Is Not Graffiti: Media Projections

Multimedia work combining graffiti, sequential animation, and projection, exploring the role of ephemeral art in public space.

3/5/18 Constructing Incest in Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénega

On how the notion of incest can be constructed using dysmorphic composition, abstracted voice narration, and telephoto versus wide-angle lenses.

9/3/18 The Erasure of Street Art by the Artist Himself

On street artist Blu and the private ownership of graffiti versus mural art.

15/2/18 Luis Buñuel and Spectatorship

Analysis of poverty aesthetics in Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned).

18/4/17 Intangible Heat

On how to photograph a dancer with “hot dance moves.”

17/2/17 Flammable Graffiti

Mixed-media pyrotechnic collage exploring the connections among graffiti artists, materials, and objects.

9/12/16 Echoes of Rage in Romantic Embraces: Kim Ki-duk’s The Isle

On the uncanny horror of leitmotifs.

7/11/16 CGI in Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge

On metalepsis and intermediality across three formats: analog film, videotape, and computer-generated imagery.