ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
“Dreams on the Skin: Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Octopus Aesthetics.” In Tuomas A. Laitinen. Artist monograph. Berlin: K. Verlag, 2026 (forthcoming).
“Touching Infinity.” In Alice Wang: The Touching Touched, by Alice Wang. Artist monograph. Los Angeles: Sming Sming Books, 2026, catalogue of the exhibition at UCCA Dune, https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/alice-wang/ (forthcoming).
“Artifice and Effigy.” In A Bouquet: How to Digest an Eternity, by Kim Schoen. Artist monograph. Los Angeles, 2025.
“Marcus Zúñiga’s Cycle of Meaning.” In Gila Emplacement, Marcus Zúñiga, catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles. 2020.
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SHORT ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
“Notes on S. Billie Mandle’s Asunder.” Contact Magazine, February 2026 (forthcoming).
“Environmental Humanities: Reflections on the Future.” UC Irvine School of Humanities, April 26, 2024. https://www.humanities.uci.edu/news/environmental-humanities-reflections-future
“Catherine Opie, harmony is fraught.” 1000 Words, February 2024. https://www.1000wordsmag.com/catherine-opie/
“Art After Ecology.” Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (blog), January 19, 2022. https://fciny.org/news/art-after-ecology-korol-gold
“Helen Pashgian, Blue Secret.” Monthly Muse. UC Irvine Institute and Museum of California Art, August 2021. https://imca.uci.edu/blue-secret/.
“Reading Notes from the Arctic: An Oecologies Reading Group” (with Laura Hutchingame) Oecologies Blog, April 20, 2021. https://oecologies.com/2021/04/20/reading-notes-from-the-arctic-an-oecologies-reading-group/.
“Lita Albuquerque at the Huntington.” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, October 27, 2020.
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CONFERENCES, INVITED LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS
“Relations and Aesthetics in the work of Pierre Huyghe,” Work in Progress, lecture series, UC Irvine Visual Studies, 2025
“Environmental Antagonism in Pierre Huyghe’s Variants (2021-ongoing),” Network Ecologies Reimagined: A Digital Humanities Exchange Conference, UC Irvine, 2025
“How to Digest and Eternity,” moderator with Michael Marder and Kim Schoen, David Horvitz’s Garden, Los Angeles, 2025
“Dreams on the Skin: Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Octopus Aesthetics,” Flora and Fauna, UC Irvine, 2025
“Regenerative Agriculture and Art.” Panel discussant, Various Small Fires Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1970-1971, The Harrison Studio, 2024
“Cyborg City: Metabolism’s Vision of Cybernetic Architecture,” In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure, UC Irvine, 2024
College Art Association (CAA), February 2024
“Arts at Burns Piñon,” coauthored with Liz
Stringer and Jesse Colin Jackson
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), February 2024
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), June
2023
“Plasticity, or the Anarchy of Art.” Respondent to Amanda Boetzkes, Anarchy, Plasticity, Worldbuilding Symposium, UC Irvine, May 2023
“Garden: Curating Art After Ecology,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, panel: Gardening the Edge, September 2022
“Broken World Pictures of the Applications Technology Satellite 3,” Astral Poetics, UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Conference, April 2022
“Fukuoka Masanobu’s Nature Aesthetics,” Edible Undercurrents, UCLA Graduate Symposium, November 2021
“Dog People: A conversation on the
possibilities of artist-dog collaboration.” Organizer and moderator. Institute
For Interspecies Art And Relations at Heavy Manners Library. Artist panel with
Andy Bennett, Sarah M. Rodriguez, and Nina Sarnelle. September 2022