Image After the Physical Trace: On "Ontological Disclosure"
Analyzing Johannes Grenzfurthner's 'Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace': ontological disclosure, indexicality, and the hand mark in the age of synthetic imagery.
Beeple, MMoCA, and Feeding a Museum Collection to the Machine
Examining the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art controversy: training AI models on permanent collections for Beeple, institutional ethics, and artist consent.
Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026): The Body of Repetition
Appraising Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026): polka dots, self-obliteration, infinity mirror rooms, and the paradox of dissolution in the age of personal visibility.
Sliman Mansour (1947–2026): The Man Carrying a City on His Back
Commemorating Sliman Mansour (1947–2026): 'Jamal al-Mahamel', natural earth materials during the Intifada, and the figure as collective memory in Palestinian art.
Memory in Figurative Painting: What Does a Portrait Hold?
Thinking memory in portraiture through gaze, surface, time, and composition; an approach to figurative painting beyond mere resemblance.
What Is Post-Digital Art? Thinking Canvas and Code Together
A perspective on post-digital art uniting canvas and code across materiality, production, circulation, and spectator experience.
Looking at Figurative Painting for the Collector: From Surface to Context
A connoisseurship guide for collecting figurative painting: tactile surface, anatomical tension, provenance documentation, and temporal endurance.
The Viewer in Interactive Art: Collective Portraiture Through Person A
Audience participation, evolving imagery, and collective portraiture through Person A: the individual and multiplicity in interactive art.
On Aniconism, Likeness, and Representation in Art
Distinguishing aniconism from iconoclasm: the boundaries of likeness, figuration, and representation emerging from Islamic art objects.
Photography and Memory: What Lies Inside and Outside the Archive
A critical essay examining the photographic trajectory from framing to archive through practices of memory and representation.