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.