Writing, talks
I am Editor of the Fibreculture Journal, now
affiliated with the Open
Humanities Press.
There is also writing on my
academia.edu
pages.
I am currently working on
two books, Differential
Media: Differential Culture and On Not Performing: Technology and Intensity.
Book
2003 Culture and Technology (co-authored
with John Potts) (London:Palgrave)
Articles and Book
Chapters
2012 with Lone Bertelsen
'Affect, Subtraction and Non-Performance', Peripeti: tidsskrift for
dramaturgiske studier, 'Affekt og
katastrophe', issue 17: 78-87
2012 ‘Hacking
the aesthetic: David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’s
new ecologies of signal’, Journal of
Aesthetics and Culture 8(1), <http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v4i0.18153>
2012 (with Michael Hardt,
Craigie Horsfield, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi)
'A Conversation' in de Zegher, Catherine and
McMaster, Gerald (eds.) All
Our Relations: 18th Biennale of Sydney
Sydney: Biennale of Sydney: 53-63
2011 ‘Models and the
Future’, The
World of the News Aarhus
University/Transmediale:20
2011 ‘On Not
Performing: the Third Enclosure and Fractal
Neofeudal Fantasies’, Scan 8(1),
<http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=156>
2011 with Adrian Mackenzie
and Mitchell Whitelaw ‘Editorial’, Trans issue, the Fibreculture Journal,
<http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/>
2010
'14 Theses
and 21 Ghosts for Locative and Mobile Media', Inflexions, 4
2010 'Deleuze,
Guattari and Neuroscience' in Gaffney, Peter
(ed.) Deleuze, Science
and the Force of the Virtual
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 330-367
2010 with Lone Bertelsen
'An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Félix
Guattari on Affect and the Refrain' in Gregg,
Melissa and Seigworth, Greg (eds.) The Affect Reader Durham:
Duke University Press: 138-157
2010 'Shadow's
Forces/Force's Shadows' in Bissell, David and
Fuller, Gillian (eds.) Stillness
in a Mobile World London: Routledge
: 21-37
2009 'Be
Good, Be Still, Be Cool: the ambivalent powers of
stillnes in an overactive world', M/C: a journal of media and
culture 12(1): <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/133>
2009 'Performance as the
Distribution of Life: from Aeschylus to Chekhov to
VJing via Deleuze and Guattari' in Cull, Laura (ed.)
Deleuze and Performance
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press:
221-239
2009 'Joyce Hinterding and
David Haines: High Res Resonations with the Milky
Way', ACM
Computers in Entertainment 7(2) June
2009 'Taking
Off the Gloves: Touch, Transcendence and Immanence
in Film' , Kinema,
31, Spring: 65-90 [on Paul Schrader, Ozu, Deleuze
and the syntax of aesthetics]
2009 'Escaping
Influence', catalogue essay on Joyce Hinterding and
David Haines Telepathy,
Sydney: The Performance Space.
2008 'Ghosted
Publics - the "unacknowledged collective" in
the contemporary transformation of the circulation
of ideas' in Nat Muller and Alessandro Ludovico
(eds.) The Mag.net reader 3 San Sebastian:
arteleku/London/OpenMute: 102-110
2008 'Clone
Your Technics: Research creation, radical
empiricism and the constraints of models', in Inflexions: A journal for
research-creation 1(1)
2008 with Ross Harley
'Australian Electronica: A Brief History' in Shane
Homan and Tony Mitchell (eds.) Sounds of then, Sound of Now:
Popular Music in Australia Hobart;
Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies: 93-111
2008 with Adrian Mackenzie
'The
Two Cultures Become Multiple? Sciences, Humanities
and Everyday Experimentation' in Australian Feminist Studies,
Special Issue on Science and Culture 22(5): 87-100
2008 with Ross Harley 'Electronica
in Australia', Music
in Australia Knowledge Base
2007 'Mobility,
Work and Love' in Hjorth, Larissa waiting for immediacy IDP
Printers/ Yonsei University: 16-19 (blog
version here)
2007 with Ross Harley 'Australian
Electronica: A Brief History' in Culture Machine, 9
2007 'The Fallen Present: Time in the Mix' in
Hassan, Robert and Purser, Ron (eds.) 24/7:Time in the Network
Society Stanford: Standford
University Press
2007 (with Anna Munster) 'Assembling
Collective Thought' in Aminima,
20: 88-97 (Spanish and English)
2007 'Struck', Catalog essay for Michele Barker and
Anna Munster's video installation Struck at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales
2006 '"Brain-Magic":
Figures of the Brain, Technology and Magic' in
Edward Scheer and John Potts (eds.) Technology and Magic
(Power:Sydney): 112-124
2006 'Vibrations
in the Air: performance as interactive technics'
in Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall (eds.) The End of the 60s:
Performance, Media and Contemporary Culture
Performance Paradigm Publications (republication):
98-112
2006 'Locating Media Tyrannies' (review of Matthew
Fuller's Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in
Art and Technoculture) American
Book Review 27:4:32
2006 [as Enrdju Merfijs] "Izplatiba Un Salikums
Dzoisa Hinterdingas Un Deivia Heinsa Darbos" in Terra: Saistosi Par
Dabaszinatnem Un Tehnologijam,
July/August:40-42 (Latvian translation of work I
have done on the Australian artists Joyce Hinterding
and David Haines)
2005 'The
Mutation of "Cognition" and the Fracturing of
Modernity: cognitive technics, extended mind and
cultural crisis', Scan
2, 2 (September) [Special issue on memory, media,
and embodied cognition]
2005 'Differential
Life, Perception and the Nervous Elements:
Whitehead, Bergson and Virno on the Technics of
Living', Culture
Machine 7
2005 'Vibrations
in the Air: performance as interactive technics',
Performance Paradigm
1
2004 'Life Already: Interaction as the Enjoyment of
Assemblage'. Interaction:
Systems, Practice and Theory,
University of Technology, Sydney, Creativity and
Cognition Studios Press: 305-327.
2004 'The
World as Clock: The Network Society and
Experimental Ecologies' (on Lars Von Trier's
Verdensuret, media and other ecologies, Guattari and
lobsters) in Topia:
Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies,
Spring, special issue on technology and culture:
117-139
2004 'Vertiginous
Mediations: sketches for a dynamic pluralism in
the study' Media
International Australia February,
110:73-95
2003 'When
Fibre Meets Fibre: networking as ritual meeting of
body, brain' in M/C:
A Journal of Media and Culture [
'Fibre' issue] 6, 4.
2003 'Negotiating Presence:Performance and New
Technologies' in Philip Auslander (ed.) Performance: Critical Concepts
in Literary and Cultural Studies
London:Routledge
2003 'Electronicas:
Differential Media and Proliferating, Transient
Worlds', fineart
forum 17:8 August. (republication)
2003 'Electronicas:
Differential Media and Proliferating, Transient
Worlds'. Proceedings
of the Fifth International Digital Arts and
Culture Conference. RMIT, Melbourne,
Australia. May 19 - 23, 2003.
2003 'The
Enchantments of Cultural History: A Review of
Simon During's Modern
Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular
Magic', Australian
Humanities Review
2003 'The Electronica Presence of Absence:
Remediating Media Theory' (review of Jeffrey
Sconce's Haunted Media), Theory & Event
7(1)
2002 'Putting
the Virtual back into VR', in Brian Massumi
(ed.) A Shock to Thought:
expression in the philosophy of gilles deleuze
and felix guattari
(London:Routledge) (republication).
2001 'Is Philosophy
Ever Enough?' (extended review of Gregory
Flaxman's The Brain is
the Screen:Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema
) on the very grand Film-Philosophy
Site v5, n38
2001 'A Requiem for Postmodernism: The New Media
Adjusters from Sokal to Starship Troopers' in
McKenzie Wark (ed) Thinking
Media (Sydney:Pluto)
2000 'Computers are not Theatre: The Machine in the
Ghost in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's
thought', a reprint of the article below, in Gary
Genosko, (ed.) Deleuze
and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading
Philosophers London:Routledge
2000 'Sound
at the end of the world as we know it: Nick Cave,
Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and a
Deleuze-Guattarian ecology of popular music',
a reprint of the article below, in Gary Genosko,
(ed.) Deleuze and
Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading
Philosophers London:Routledge
2000 'The Dusk of the
Digital is the Dawn of the Virtual' in Enculturation 3:1
(Post-Digital issue) at (on the virtual, digital,
Stelarc and Rebecca Horn)
1998 'Flowing - theories and taboos in Popular Music
Studies' in Perfect Beat:
the pacific journal of research into
contemporary music and popular culture
v3 n4, January:85-92
1998 'I'm Not
Joking --Lacanian Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To
Be' a review of Zizek's Everything You
Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid
to Ask Hitchcock) on the very grand Film-Philosophy
Site
1997 'Editorial: Machinic Theory' in Convergence: the Journal of
Research into New Media Technologies
v3 n2, Summer:5-8 (for an issue I edited)
1997-1998 'Putting
the Virtual back into VR' in Canadian Journal of
Comparative Literature: Revue Canadienne de
Littérature Comparée, an issue on
Deleuze, Guattari and expression.
1996 'Computers are not Theatre: The Machine in the
Ghost in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's
thought' in Convergence:
the Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies v2 n2, Autumn:80-110
1996 'Sound
at the end of the world as we know it: Nick Cave,
Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and a
Deleuze-Guattarian ecology of popular music'
in Perfect Beat: the
pacific journal of research into contemporary
music and popular culture v2 n4,
January:18-42
1992 with Edward Scheer, 'Capital, Culture and
Simulation - Dance Parties in Sydney from 1985-1990'
in Hayward, Philip From
Pop to Punk to Postmodernism Allen
and Unwin, Sydney
1990 'Negotiating Presence: Performance and New
Technologies' in Hayward, Philip (ed.) Culture, Technology and
Creativity: in the late twentieth century
John Libbey, Arts Council of Great Britain, London
1988 'The Body in Performance: Small Moments in
Cultural Production' Spectator
Burns 2:63-71 (on Deleuze, Guattari,
the body and performance)
1987 'Lost in the Fatherland: Naturalism, Theatre
and the Body' Spectator
Burns 1:10-23 (on gender issues,
Lacan and Ibsen)
Editing
I am Editor (ongoing) of the
Fibreculture Journal, now affiliated with the
Open
Humanities Press. Issues I have personally
edited:
2011 Issue 18 – Trans
(with Adrian Mackenzie and Mitchell Whitelaw)
2009 Issue 14 – Web
2.0 (with Anna Munster)
2008 Issue 12 – Metamodels
(with Gary Genosko)
2006 Issue 09 – General
Issue
2005 Issue 06 – Mobility
(with Larissa Hjorth, Gillian Fuller and Sandra
Buckley)
2004 Issue 03 – General
Issue
2003 Issue 02 – New
Media, New Worlds?
2003 Issue 01 – The
Politics of Networks
Conference
Papers/Presentations/Workshops/Art
2011 ‘Cognitive, business
and other models and Deleuze’s theory of
subtraction’, In/compatible markets and methods
panel, In/compatible conference and
workshop, Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin, November 17
2011 ‘The World as Medium’,
Affect, Art, Politics Department of
Aesthetics and Communication, Nordisk Institut,
Århus University, Denmark, October 14
2011, workshop participant,
Generating the Impossible, the Senselab,
Concordia University, July 3-10
2011 [Keynote] 'On
Not Performing' Unacceptable
conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 1
2011 'Differential
Cognition/Ghosted Publics and Unacknowledged
Collectives', Bodies in/ex situ
conference, ADFA, UNSW, Canberra, February 1
2010 'Dynamic Media Network
Project', Data Dynamics Workshop,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, December 3
2009 (run, with Thomas
Markussen) Master Class in interaction design at
Kolding Design School, December 2-3
2009, (July) workshop
participant, The Society of Molecules,
Senselab, Concordia University (international)
2009 'Between Seeing,
Affecting and Being Affected: Vision, Proprioception
and Modeling in interaction design', Kolding
Design School, Kolding, Denmark, November 25
2008 with Anna Munster
(December 9) 'Innovation and Aversion: the
dispositif of contemporary socio-technical
assemblage and the ambiguities of Exodus', Thinking
Things Through workshop, University of New
South Wales, Sydney.
2008 (September 2) 'Open?
Access? Publishing?: a new world for humanities
publishing is a new world for the humanities' at the
Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future
symposium, Centre for Cultural Research, University
of Western Sydney
2007 (December 14) '14
theses and 21 ghosts for locative and mobile media',
The Poetics of Mobilities Symposium, Centre
for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine
Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
2007 (October 2) 'The
Virtual, Interactive Design and Cognitive Models' Kolding
Designskolen, Denmark
2007 (August 20-25)
Workshop Participant, Housing the Body,
Dressing the Environment, Senselab, Concordia
University
2006 (November 29)
'Auditland: Education and Cognitive Labour' at a
workshop run by the Centre for Research on Social
Inclusion, Macquarie University on "The Concept of
Labour".
2006 [with Anna Munster] (August 12) 'assemblage for
collective thought (act)' VJ/DJ performance at ZeroOne
San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
/ 13th International Symposium of Electronic Arts
(ISEA2006)
2006 (June 21) 'Hebbing the System (with Bernays
Sauce): the new technics of brain-body performance'
Critical and Cultural studies Corpographies
Seminar series, Macquarie University Sydney
2006 (May 4) 'Thought and 'Cognition' - New-ish
Orders, Virtual Cognition and the Possibility of a
Radical Empiricism' UTS Cultural Studies Research
Group, Sydney.
2005 (October 24) 'Virtual cognition, politics and
the mutation of the modern' Centre for Contemporary
Art and Politics seminar series, College of Fine
Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
2005 (July 9) 'Hacking the Aesthetic: Distributed
Aesthetics in the work of Joyce Hinterding and David
Haines' Transforming Aesthetics
conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2005 (June 15) 'Virtual Cognition and the Forces
that Constitute Microbrains' Australian Society
for Continental Philosophy conference,
University of New South Wales, Sydney.
2005 (April) Invited Guest,
Dancing the Virtual, Senselab, Concordia
University
2004 (December 3) 'Media, Cognition, Life: The
mutation of ‘cognition’ and the end of ‘modern
culture’' - Memory, Media and Social Theory
workshop, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie
University, Sydney.
2004 (November) 'Life Already - Interaction as the
Enjoyment of Assemblage' - Interaction,
Systems, Practice and Theory, a Creativity
and Cognition symposium hosted by the Dynamic Design
Research Group, University of Technology, Sydney.
2004 'Ants' Nests and Tea Ceremonies: space,
synthesis and memory within network ecologies',
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT,
Melbourne.
2004 (with Mat Wall-Smith, September 15) 'Always
Living, Sometimes Conscious: Thinking Network
Ecologies', Schools of Media and Theatre, Film and
Dance, University of New South Wales, September 15.
2003 'Virtual and Differential Ecologies' - Biophilosophy
and the Politics of Life, the Humanities
Research Centre, Australian National University,
July
2003 'Electronicas: Differential Media and
Proliferating, Transient World' StreamingWorlds
- Digital Arts and Culture, Melbourne, May
2002 'The World's Acid: Emergence and Structure
within the Digital Aesthetics' at the Strange
Weather conference, November, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney (on Lars Von Trier's
Verdensuret and the digital aesthetic).
2002 'Becomings of a Spiritual Automaton: Deleuze,
Film and New Media' (on Deleuze's Cinema 2 and
computer media) at the Deleuze and Cinema
conference, September, University of New South
Wales.
2000 'Another Fine Mesh: The Threshold of Absolute
Immanence' at the Australasian Society of
Continental Philosophy conference, Sydney, November
1998 'Getting in Touch: touch, lost horizons and the
problem of the transcendent/immanent distinction in
film, philosophy and the Internet' at the
Australasian Association of Philosophy conference,
Sydney, July.
1996 'Becoming-Minor and the web' at the International
Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in
Rotterdam, September, 1996.
1987 'Softbody' Politics of the Body conference,
The Performance Space, Sydney.
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