research & art criticism available for online reading or downloading
2023:
Copies Without Originals ↪
Spike Art Magazine – Art criticism
tags: AI art, intellectual property
Taxation without Representation ↪
Outland.art – Art criticism
tags: blockchain art, NFTs, digital commons, smart contracts, financialisation
RSE Case study: Improving awareness of issues at the intersection of ‘gamification’ and ‘financialisation’ ↪
The Royal Society of Edinburgh – Case study
tags: gamification, financialisation, research
A Digital Art Revolution? ↪
Resource - The Royal Society of Edinburgh – Commentary
tags: blockchain art, NFTs, digital commons, smart contracts, financialisation
Structures of Belonging ↪
Aksioma Postscriptum series – Art criticism
tags: digital art, blockchain, DAOs, NFTs, digital commons, token-gating, NFTs
2022:
Blockchain Vitalism ↪
Outland.art – Art criticism
tags: blockchain art, NFTs, non-human agency
The Politics of Visual Indeterminacy in Abstract AI Art ↪
Leonardo – Journal article
tags: AI art, visual indeterminacy, abstraction, image recognition
Agential Assemblage & Tactical AI – Two Contributions to ‘Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition’ ↪
Chimeras (Onassis Foundation) – Book chapter
tags: AI art, agency, posthumanism, tactical AI, agential assemblages, digital art
Towards a Non-Totalizing Metaverse ↪
TBD – Book chapter
tags: metaverse, virtual Reality, VR, interface experiments, digital art
AI Art as Hyperobject-Like Portal to Global Warming ↪
xCoAX 2022 Proceedings – Essay
tags: AI art, hyperobjects, anthropocene, global warming, digital art
2021:
Generative Adversarial Copy Machines ↪
Culture Machine (special issue on machine intelligence) – Journal article
tags: AI art, GANs, posthumanism, agency, intellectual property
OUT NOW: Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property ↪
Meson Press – Monograph
tags: AI, AI art, digital art, intellectual property, agency, posthumanism, tactical media
‘Chaotic Lawful’: Teaching Videogames in a Licensing and Permissions Lacuna ↪
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) Teaching Media Dossier – Journal article
tags: game studies, COVID-19, online teaching, educational licensing, intellectual property
2020:
Emerging ownership models on the blockchain ↪
Frontiers in Blockchain – special issue
tags: blockchain, fintech, ownership, intellectual property, creative industries
2019:
Rethinking Affordance ↪
Media Theory – journal special issue
tags: affordance theory, digital art, design, media theory, media art history
Survival Interventions in GTA & the Limits of Performance in Virtual Environments ↪
Video Game Art Reader Vol. 2 – journal article
tags: performance art, game art
‘Vertiginous Data’ curatorial essay, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea ↪
Vertiginous Data (exhibition catalogue) – essay
tags: crypto, digital art, blockchain, copyright, curatorial essay
2018:
Plotting Critical Research Practice in Digital Art ↪
Parsing Digital – book chapter
tags: digital art, computer art, creative coding, research-practice
First as Snapshot, Then as Decentralised Digital Asset ↪
Unthinking.Photography (online journal) – online article
tags: crypto, digital art, fintech, photography, blockchain
Digital Art as ‘Monetised Graphics:’ Enforcing IP on the Blockchain ↪
Philosophy & Technology – journal article
tags: copyright, digital art, financialization, blockchain, art market
Digital Art Between Algomysticism & Fintech Activism ↪
MoneyLab Reader Vol. 2 – book chapter
tags: crypto, digital art, blockchain
2017:
Métic Action in Digital Culture ↪
Platform Journal – journal article
tags: cunning, biopower, metis, activism
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know about the Blockchain* (*But Were Afraid to Ask Mel Ramsden) ↪
Artist Re:Thinking the Blockchain – book chapter
tags: crypto, digital art, conceptual art, fintech
2014:
Live Coding the Law: Improvisation, Code & Copyright ↪
Computer Music Journal – journal article
tags: music, live coding, IP, copyright
2013:
Chiptuning IP Between Creative Commons and Moral Economy ↪
IASPM Journal – journal article
tags: music, IP, copyright, Creative Commons