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SELECTED TEXTS:

(2010) Democracy 2.0 [PDF, 131KB] in Concept Store #3, Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. 60-64.

(2009) On Premediation, interview with Richard Grusin, in Concept Store #2: Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures, Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. .

(2009) Review of Tactical Media by Rita Raley, in Leonardo Reviews (Aug).

(2009) Critique of Software Security with Martin Knahl [PDF, 4.4MB] in Wolfgang Sutzl & Geoff Cox, eds., Creating Insecurity: Art and Culture in the Age of Security, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 27-43.

(2008) All Property is Theft [PDF, 108KB] in Nav Haq & Tom Trevor, eds. Concept Store #1: Art, Consumerism and the Experience Economy, Bristol: Arnolfini, pp. 45-50.

(2008) Antisocial Applications: notes in support of antisocial notworking [PDF, 68KB] in CONT3XT ed. Curediting Vague Terrain online journal.

(2008) Internet governance: towards a non-representational democracy with Martin Knahl [PDF, 568KB] in International Journal of Web-Based Communities, Vol. 4, No. 3, Geneva: Inderscience, pp. 319-333.

(2008) Review of The Exploit: A Theory of Networks by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, in Leonardo Reviews, (May) and in print 42:2.

(2008) Perl (with Adrian Ward), in Matthew Fuller, ed. Software Studies: a Lexicon, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

(2008) Review of Organized Networks by Ned Rossiter, in Leonardo Reviews, (June) and in print 41:1.

(2007) Software Art Has No History introduction to 'Cybernetic Histories of Artistic Practices', for re:place, second international conference on histories of media, art science and technology, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

(2007) Review The Circular Story of Black Arts Policy of Richard Hylton's 'The Nature of the Beast' for Mute.

(2007) Generator: The Value of Software Art [PDF, 896 KB] in Judith Rugg, ed., Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol: Intellect.

(2007) Sub disorder(): after The Author as Producer [PDF, 480KB] in Matthew Beaumont, John Roberts, Andrew Hemingway & Esther Leslie, eds., As Radical as Reality itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, London: Peter Lang.

(2006) Software Actions [PDF, 4.4MB] in Joasia Krysa, ed., Curating Immateriality, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 69-79.

(2005) Introduction to 'The Author as (Digital) Producer' with Joasia Krysa [PDF, 284KB] in, also ed. Engineering Culture, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 7-29.

(2005) System Error: economies of cultural production in the network society with Joasia Krysa [PDF, 204KB] in Malcolm Miles, ed. New Practice - New Pedagogies: a reader London: Routledge, pp. 29-38.

(2004) Introduction to 'The (Digital) Culture Industry' with Joasia Krysa & Anya Lewin [PDF, 120KB] in, also ed. Economising Culture, New York: Autonomedia, pp. 7-21.

(2004) Coding Praxis: reconsidering the aesthetics of code with Alex McLean & Adrian Ward [PDF, 872KB], in Olga Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin, eds., Read_me: Software Art & Cultures, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, pp.161-174; earlier version presented as part of Programmation Orientee Art, University of Paris, Sorbonne.

(2004) Anagrams of Orderly Disorder (for the new Global Order) with Joasia Krysa & Adrian Ward [PDF, 444KB] in Crisis Media: The Sarai Reader 4, Sarai & de Waag, pp. 415-420.

(2003) Software Art jury statement with Casey Reas and Kate Rich, for transmediale 04, Berlin [PDF, 32KB].

(2003) Art as Engineering: Techno-Art Collectives and Social Change with Joasia Krysa [PDF, 320KB] in Art Inquiry, Lodzkie Towazystwo Naukowe, Lodz, Poland.

(2003) On Immaterial Curating: the Generation and Corruption of the Digital Object with Joasia Krysa [PDF, 1.6MB] in Zeszyty Artystyczne, no. 11, University of Poznan, pp. 104-115 (published in Polish as O zadaniach kuratorow wobec obiektow niematerialnych: generowanie I uszkadzanie obiektow cyfrowych trans. Marta Walkowiak).

(2003) Why Look at Artificial Animals? with Adrian Ward, [PDF, 352KB], in Roy Ascott, ed., (2005) Engineering Nature, Bristol: Intellect, ISBN 184150128X, pp. 115-119.

(2002) Generating Orderly Disorder: or, suggested upgrade of 'the author as producer' (and alternative version Generation and Corruption) [PDF, 132KB] conference paper, Marxism and the Visual Arts Now, University College London.

(2001) The Aesthetics of Generative Code with Adrian Ward & Alex McLean [PDF, 60KB] for Generative Art 00 conference, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - http://www.generative.net/papers/aesthetics/index.html, also in Eugene Thacker, ed, Hard_Code: narrating the network society, Boulder, CA: Alt-X Press [hardcode.pdf, 64KB].

(2001) Cover Versions: The Communist Manifesto in Cabinet magazine, issue 4, Fall; and reprinted (2004) in What, How & For Whom, Zagreb: Arkzin, pp.12-25.

(2000) Manifest: Reframing False Consciousness with Tim Brennan [PDF, 96KB] Consciousness Reframed, conference paper, University College Newport, Wales, & Phenomenology conference, University College, Cork, Eire.

(1999) The Authorship of Generative Art with Adrian Ward, for Generative Art 99 conference, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - http://www.generative.net/papers/authorship/index.html

(1999) Agent Provocateur: questions of human-machine agency and on-line ethnographic arts practice for Invencao conference, ISEA-Leonardo-ITAU, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

(1999) Crowd Code: collectivity and connectivity with Mark Winstanley, in Living in the Material World, conference proceedings, Coventry University.

(1999) The Digital Crowd: some questions on globalisation & agency [PDF, 36KB] in Design Issues, volume 15, number 1, Spring, MIT Press.


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