ARTICLES, ESSAYS & REVIEWS
A few pieces to read first
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Is the Music Over at Mills College? The New York Times, March 30, 2021.
Louis and Bebe Barron’s Hidden Tapes. LA Philharmonic California Festival, Fall 2023.
Terry Jennings: Piece for Cello and Saxophone. 4Columns, June 2022.
The Beatles: Get Back. 4Columns, December 2021.
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network. 4Columns, November 2021.
Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground. 4Columns, October 2021.
Fire Music. 4Columns, September 2021.
Don Cherry. 4Columns, June 2021.
David Tudor. 4Columns, May 2021.
In Memoriam: Harold Budd. 4Columns, January 2021.
Jon Hassell and Farafina. 4Columns, January 31, 2020.
Tony Conrad: Writings. 4Columns, November 8, 2019.
Eliane Radigue. 4Columns, October 4, 2019.
Tate Modern: Takis. 4Columns, September 27, 2019.
Maryanne Amacher. 4Columns, April 26, 2019.
The Electrifying Rush of Mark Fisher’s K-Punk. Frieze, special anniversary issue, March 2019.
Aphex Twin’s best songs — ranked! The Guardian, February 28, 2019.
Robert Ashley. 4Columns, February 15, 2019.
Deben Bhattacharya. 4Columns, November 30, 2018.
Tony Conrad: On the Infinite Plane. Artforum, July 20, 2018.
Rammellzee. 4Columns, May 25, 2018.
Glenn Branca: Punk Composer Who Turned Minimal Maximal. The Guardian, May 15, 2018.
Brian Eno: A 70th Birthday Tribute. Rolling Stone, May 15, 2018.
In Memoriam: Cecil Taylor. 4Columns, April 20, 2018.
Milford Graves: Full Mantis. 4Columns, March 19, 2018.
‘I Call Them Divinities’: Charlemagne Palestine’s 18,000 Stuffed Animals. The Guardian, February 1, 2018.
Alvin Lucier. 4Columns, January 26, 2018.
Obituary: Mark E. Smith. NPR, January 25, 2018.
Roland Kayn. 4Columns, October 20, 2017.
Raymond Scott. 4Columns, August 4, 2017.
The Life and Work of Pierre Henry, Ceaseless Sonic Explorer. NPR, July 8, 2017.
Mika Vainio. 4Columns, June 23, 2017.
Alice Coltrane’s Spiritual Music. The Guardian, May 5, 2017.
Ty Segall on Black Flag, T Rex and Why The Kinks Made Sense in ’90s California. The Guardian, January 19, 2017.
Pauline Oliveros: 1932-2016. Frieze, December 3, 2016.
San Fran-disco: How Patrick Cowley and Sylvester Changed Dance Music Forever. The Guardian, October 26, 2016.
Don Buchla, Synthesizer Pioneer, Dies at 79. The Guardian, September 16, 2016.
A Sense of Time: An Interview with Phill Niblock. Frieze, August 23, 2016.
Indian Summer: Nazia Hassan and Bollywood Disco. Sight and Sound, June 2016.
The Music of Bell Labs. RBMA, May 30, 2016.
Tony Conrad: 1940-2016. Frieze, April 12, 2016.
On David Bowie, Part 1. Medium, January 15, 2016.
Kraftwerk on Cycling, 3D, ‘Spiritual Connection’ to Detroit. Rolling Stone, August 26, 2015.
Soundings: Oskar Sala and Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Sight and Sound, August 2015.
In Our Image: How InMoov, the Open-Source, 3D-Printed Humanoid Robot was Born. Make (cover story), June/July 2015.
Stockhausen in Japan. RBMA, October 2014.
Experimental Music and Performance: John Cage, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham. In Art or Sound, Germano Celant, ed. Exhibition catalogue, 2014 Venice Bienniale. Fondazione Prada, 2014.
Michael Jackson’s Hologram: The Phantom Menace. Vulture, May 22, 2014.
Holger Czukay. The Pitchfork Review, Spring 2014.
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Robert Ashley: 1930-2014. Frieze, March 12, 2014. Translated into German and reprinted in Musik Texte, 2014.
Free Samples: Is De La Soul’s Long Fight to Release Its Music Digitally Finally Over–Or Just Beginning? Slate, Feb 25, 2014.
Black Flag: A Re-Formation Gone Wrong. The Guardian, December 6, 2013.
Lou Reed’s Palm Pilot. Slate, October 28, 2013.
Secret Circuits: New York’s Early Electronic Music Mavericks. RBMA, June 2013.
The Beauty of Slow Deterioration: Boards of Canada. Slate, June 12, 2013.
Why ‘Neuroskeptics’ See an Epidemic of Brain Baloney. The Globe and Mail, April 13, 2013.
David Bowie’s The Next Day. Slate, March 12, 2013.
Conny Plank. Groove (Germany), March/April 2013.
Phreaks and Geeks: Exploding the Phone. Slate, February 1, 2013.
An Interview with Laurie Spiegel. Frieze, December 22, 2012.
Lost Cause: Beck’s Song Reader. Slate, December 6, 2012.
BASIC: Inside a Single Line of Code, a Labyrinth. Slate, November 30, 2012.
Deep in the Woods, A Reclusive Toymaker Builds His Robot Army. Wired, October 8, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and ‘Gangnam Style’. Wired, September 15, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions. Wired, September 14, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers are Almost Always Wrong. Wired, September 13, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords. Wired, September 6, 2012.
Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle. Wired, August 8, 2012.
Conny Plank. Frieze, June 2012.
Legends of Electronic Music: Tod Dockstader. Wired, June 7, 2012.
Meet Kraftwerk’s Original 3-D Animator, Rebecca Allen. Wired, April 20, 2012.
Interview: Dieter Moebius. Frieze, January 20, 2012.
Essay: Looking Back on Music in 2011. Frieze, January 2012.
Stan VanDerBeek at the List Visual Arts Center. Frieze, Summer 2011.
Interview: Max Mathews, 1926-2011. Frieze, May 2011.
Der Letzte Schrei. Die Tageszeitung (Germany), June 2010.
Music: A handful of DJ mixes and online experiments point the way to a more communal form of listening. Frieze, Summer 2010.
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Groove (Germany), July/August 2006.
“High-Tech Graffiti: Spray Paint is So 20th Century,” The New York Times, June 25, 2006. Reprinted in The International Herald-Tribune as “Devising Digital Techniques for Graffiti Artists,” June 23, 2006.
“Hey Ho Let’s Go (To Berlin).” The New York Times, September 25, 2005. Reprinted in the Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), October 2005.
“Berlin’s Indoor Mountain of Art and Protest,” The New York Times, August 25, 2005. Reprinted as “A Palatial Mountain of Protest Art,” The International Herald-Tribune, August 27, 2005.
Experimental music
In Memoriam: Phill Niblock. 4Columns, January 2024.
Terry Riley’s Early Years. LA Philharmonic California Festival, Fall 2023.
Maggi Payne. LA Philharmonic California Festival, Fall 2023.
Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood. 4Columns, May 2023.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12. 4Columns, January 2023.
Terry Jennings: Piece for Cello and Saxophone. 4Columns, June 2022.
Yoshi Wada. 4Columns, May 2021.
David Tudor. 4Columns, May 2021.
Is the Music Over at Mills College? The New York Times, March 30, 2021.
Graham Lambkin. 4Columns, March 2021.
In Memoriam: Harold Budd. 4Columns, January 2021.
Jon Hassell and Farafina. 4Columns, January 31, 2020.
Arthur Russell. 4Columns, January 14, 2020.
Tony Conrad: Writings. 4Columns, November 8, 2019.
Paul DeMarinis. 4Columns, June 26, 2019.
David Rosenboom. 4Columns, May 31, 2019.
Maryanne Amacher. 4Columns, April 26, 2019.
Robert Ashley. 4Columns, February 15, 2019.
Broken Music. 4Columns, October 12, 2018.
Haruomi Hosono. 4Columns, September 21, 2018.
Glenn Branca: Punk Composer Who Turned Minimal Maximal. The Guardian, May 15, 2018.
Brian Eno: A 70th Birthday Tribute. Rolling Stone, May 15, 2018..
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Electronica Album. The Guardian, March 27, 2018.
David Behrman: Music with Memory. 4Columns, February 16, 2018.
Alvin Lucier. 4Columns, January 26, 2018.
150 Great Albums Made by Women: Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Alice Coltrane. NPR, July 24, 2017.
Lou Harrison. 4Columns, May 24, 2017.
Pauline Oliveros: obituary. Translated into German and reprinted in Musik Texte (Germany), March 2017.
Ambient Pioneer Midori Takada: “Everything On This Earth Has a Sound.” The Guardian, March 24, 2017.
Brian Eno: Reflection. 4Columns, January 13, 2017.
Pauline Oliveros: 1932-2016. Frieze, December 3, 2016.
Julius Eastman. The Wire (UK), October 2016.
On Location: Saying Goodbye to Other Music. The Wire (UK), September 2016.
A Sense of Time: An Interview with Phill Niblock. Frieze, August 23, 2016.
Tony Conrad: 1940-2016. Frieze, April 12, 2016.
Tony Conrad: Five of the Best Moments by Dream Syndicate Drone Pioneer. The Guardian, April 12, 2016.
The Drones that Bridged a Generation Gap. In Epiphanies: Life Changing Encounters with Music. Tony Herrington, ed. Strange Attractor Press, 2015.
Stockhausen in Japan. RBMA, October 2014.
Picture Piece: The Audium. Frieze, October 2014.
Experimental Music and Performance: John Cage, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham. In Art or Sound, Germano Celant, ed. Exhibition catalogue, 2014
Venice Bienniale. Fondazione Prada, 2014.
Peter Gordon: The Love of Life Orchestra Founder’s Formative Years. RBMA, June 23, 2014.
Robert Ashley: 1930-2014. Frieze, March 12, 2014. Translated into German and reprinted in Musik Texte, 2014.
Invisible Jukebox with Ellen Fullman. The Wire, March 2014.
Music: On eavesdropping, Muzak, and the sound of Bitcoin. Frieze, March 2014.
Secret Circuits: New York’s Early Electronic Music Mavericks. RBMA, June 2013.
Surround Sound. Frieze d/e, April/May 2013.
Music To Sleep To: Brian Eno’s Lux, Reviewed. Slate, November 16, 2012.
It’s in the Cards. Cabinet, Issue #45 (Games), Spring 2012.
Got a Moment? Listen to a 744-Hour-Long Radio Show. Wired, March 9, 2012.
Peter Gordon and the Love of Life Orchestra. NPR, October 2010.
Conjuring Sound: Music, Magic and Mysticism. Rhizome, October 2010.
An Interview with David Toop. Rhizome, April 2010.
Sound and Vision. Bookforum, March 2010.
“Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics.” Rhizome, October 2009.
“Discover the Recipes You Are Using and Abandon Them: Brian Eno in the Kitchen.” In Loops. London: Faber & Faber. July 2009.
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Sound and Music, July 2009.
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Groove (Germany), July/August 2006.
Brian Eno’s 14 Video Paintings. The Village Voice, January 2006.
Kitsch Klatch: The Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle. Seattle Weekly, September 2005.
In Praise of the Riff (contributor). The Wire, December 2004.
Epiphanies. The Wire, September 2004.
Die Haut’s Burnin’ the Ice. The Wire, August 2004.
Stephen Vitiello’s Melatonin: Meditations on Sound in Sleep. The Wire, August 2004.
Among the Tuareg of Libya. The Village Voice, April 2004.
John Fahey’s Vampire Vultures. The Wire, February 2004.
“The True Sound of Asia,” The Wall Street Journal Asian edition, December 2004.
The 25th Anniversary of the New Music, New York Festival. The Wire, June 2004.
On Location: Brooklyn’s No Fun Fest. The Wire, May 2004.
David Byrne’s Grown Backwards. The Wire, April 2004.
OOIOO’s Kila Kila Kila. The Wire, March 2004.
John Fahey’s Vampire Vultures. The Wire, February 2004.
In Memoriam: Phill Niblock. 4Columns, January 2024.
Terry Riley’s Early Years. LA Philharmonic California Festival, Fall 2023.
Maggi Payne. LA Philharmonic California Festival, Fall 2023.
Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood. 4Columns, May 2023.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12. 4Columns, January 2023.
Terry Jennings: Piece for Cello and Saxophone. 4Columns, June 2022.
Yoshi Wada. 4Columns, May 2021.
Is the Music Over at Mills College? The New York Times, March 30, 2021.
Graham Lambkin. 4Columns, March 2021.
Jon Hassell and Farafina. 4Columns, January 31, 2020.
Arthur Russell. 4Columns, January 14, 2020.
Tony Conrad: Writings. 4Columns, November 8, 2019.
Paul DeMarinis. 4Columns, June 26, 2019.
David Rosenboom. 4Columns, May 31, 2019.
Maryanne Amacher. 4Columns, April 26, 2019.
Film
Peter Jackson's Get Back. 4Columns, December 2021.
Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground. 4Columns, October 2021.
Fire Music. 4Columns, September 2021.
Jonas Mekas. (with Carolee Schneemann and Jeff Preiss.) Frieze, February 1, 2019.
Tony Conrad: On the Infinite Plane. Artforum, July 20, 2018.
When the Beat Drops. The Guardian, June 22, 2018.
Milford Graves: Full Mantis. 4Columns, March 19, 2018.
Paul Clipson: 1965-2018. Frieze, February 12, 2018.
Interview with Paul Clipson. Medium, February 5, 2018.
Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest. 4Columns, November 4, 2016.
A Sense of Time: An Interview with Phill Niblock. Frieze, August 23, 2016.
Indian Summer: Nazia Hassan and Bollywood Disco. Sight and Sound, June 2016.
Tony Conrad: 1940-2016. Frieze, April 12, 2016.
Soundings: Oskar Sala and Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Sight and Sound, August 2015.
Interview: Grouper and Paul Clipson Discuss ‘Hypnosis Display.’ KQED, April 7, 2015.
Louis and Bebe Barron: The Isle is Full of Noises. Sight and Sound, February 2015.
Robert Ashley: 1930-2014. Frieze, March 12, 2014. Translated into German and reprinted in Musik Texte, 2014.
Surround Sound. Frieze d/e, April/May 2013.
Chris Marker, French Filmmaker Who Inspired Modern Sci-Fi, Dies at 91. Wired, July 30, 2012.
See Raymond Scott’s Fantastical Music Machines. Wired, July 25, 2012.
Recovered 1927 Metropolis Film Program Goes Behind the Scenes of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece. Wired, July 13, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
New Documentary ‘Are We Not Men?’ Digs Deep Into Devo. Wired, July 6, 2012.
3-D For Your Ears: Building the Dolby Atmos System for Brave. Wired, June 28, 2012.
New Doc ‘I Dream of Wires’ Celebrates Modular Synths, Retro Gear. Wired, June 13, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
Creating Prometheus’ Alien Sounds, With Parrots and Pop Rocks. Wired, June 12, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
Clouds, a Documentary Shot with Kinect, Explores Beauty of Code. Wired, June 8, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK/Wired Japan.
Review: With Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson Crafts a Living Instagram Photo. Wired, June 1, 2012.
Ben Burtt on Star Wars, Forbidden Planet and the Sound of Sci-Fi. Wired, May 25, 2012.
Meet Kraftwerk’s Original 3-D Animator, Rebecca Allen. Wired, April 20, 2012.
New Gerhard Richter Documentary Shows Abstract Art in Action. Wired, March 15, 2012.
Idle Screenings Chops Hollywood Movies Into Sea of Animated GIFs. Wired, March 7, 2012.
Found Soundtracks: Decoder. Sound and Music, July 2011.
Stan VanDerBeek at the List Visual Arts Center. Frieze, Summer 2011.
Brion Gysin at the New Museum. The Wire, October 2010.
Sunsetcorp: The Films of Oneohtrix Point Never. Frieze, August 2010.
Sound and Vision. Bookforum, March 2010.
“The Maharaja of Pop: Michael Jackson and Bollywood.” In The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, Mark Fisher, ed. London: Zer0 Books. 2009.
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Sound and Music, July 2009.
Robotics in Movies: One Step Ahead of Reality. American Museum of the Moving Image: Sloan Science and Film, January 2008.
Brian Eno’s 14 Video Paintings. The Village Voice, January 2006.
Kitsch Klatch: The Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle. Seattle Weekly, September 2005.
Mass Mentality: Cinematic Resonance Imaging. The Village Voice, March 2004.
Among the Tuareg of Libya. The Village Voice, April 2004.
Jazz
The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69. 4Columns, September 2022.
Fire Music. 4Columns, September 2021.
Don Cherry. 4Columns, June 2021.
In Memoriam: Cecil Taylor. 4Columns, April 20, 2018.
Milford Graves: Full Mantis. 4Columns, March 19, 2018.
150 Great Albums Made by Women: Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Alice Coltrane. NPR, July 24, 2017.
Alice Coltrane’s Spiritual Music. The Guardian, May 5, 2017.
Rites of Passage: the Pyramids. The Wire (UK), July 2016.
On John Coltrane, and San Francisco. Medium, February 25, 2016.
Alice Coltrane (short obit), Vibe, January 2008.
“Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda.” In Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs, ed. Phil Freeman. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2007.
Visual art
In Memoriam: Phill Niblock. 4Columns, January 2024.
Conrad Schnitzler in the 1980s. Essay for Kunsthalle Düsseldorf exhibition catalog, 2023.
Coded at LACMA. 4Columns, April 2023.
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network. 4Columns, November 2021.
Johanna Went. 4Columns, February 28, 2020.
Tony Conrad: Writings. 4Columns, November 8, 2019.
Tate Modern: Takis. 4Columns, September 27, 2019.
Jonas Mekas. (with Carolee Schneemann and Jeff Preiss.) Frieze, February 1, 2019.
Looking to Sound for Inspiration. Essay for the Liverpool Biennial (UK), 2018.
Tony Conrad: On the Infinite Plane. Artforum, July 20, 2018.
Rammellzee. 4Columns, May 25, 2018.
Thinking Critically about Sound Art. Nasher Sculpture Center, 2018.
Paul Clipson: 1965-2018. Frieze, February 12, 2018.
‘I Call Them Divinities’: Charlemagne Palestine’s 18,000 Stuffed Animals. The Guardian, February 1, 2018.
Thinking Machines at MoMA. 4Columns, November 17, 2017.
Pauline Oliveros: 1932-2016. Frieze, December 3, 2016.
The Choice is Yours: Artist Hacks Voting Machines for US Election-Themed Show. The Guardian, November 8, 2016.
Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest. 4Columns, November 4, 2016.
Tony Conrad: 1940-2016. Frieze, April 12, 2016.
Ryoichi Kurokawa: Ordered Disorder. Essay for exhibition at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, 2015.
On Site: Alien She. The Wire, April 2015.
Interview: Julian Oliver. Electronic Beats (Germany), Winter 2015.
Experimental Music and Performance: John Cage, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham. In Art or Sound, Germano Celant, ed. Exhibition catalogue, 2014 Venice Bienniale. Fondazione Prada, 2014.
Robert Ashley: 1930-2014. Frieze, March 12, 2014. Translated into German and reprinted in Musik Texte, 2014.
Music: On eavesdropping, Muzak, and the sound of Bitcoin. Frieze, March 2014.
Essay: On Structure. Lef(t), a broadsheet displayed at the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
How the Artist Who Built the ‘Chuck Close Filter’ Got Slammed by Chuck Close. Wired, July 10, 2012.
Hacked Medical Machines Join Forces in The Immortal. Wired, May 17, 2012.
For Stelarc, Extreme Body Mods Hint at Humans’ Possible Future. Wired, May 2, 2012. Reprinted in io9.
Meet Kraftwerk’s Original 3-D Animator, Rebecca Allen. Wired, April 20, 2012.
Artist Makes Drawing ‘Bot Out of Hacked Turntables. Wired, March 23, 2012.
Meet CERN’s New Artist in Residence, Julius von Bismarck. Wired, March 19, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
New Gerhard Richter Documentary Shows Abstract Art in Action. Wired, March 15, 2012.
Review: Manfred Mohr. Frieze d/e, Winter 2011-12.
Angus MacLise: Dreamweapon. Frieze, October 2011.
Conrad Schnitzler: 1937-2011. Frieze, August 2011.
Stan VanDerBeek at the List Visual Arts Center. Frieze, Summer 2011.
Searching for South Asia in New York City convenience stores. The New City Reader: A Newspaper of Public Space. December 2011. Displayed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City as part of the “Last Newspaper” exhibition.
Brion Gysin at the New Museum. The Wire, October 2010.
Review: Carsten Nicolai. Frieze, June 2010.
Landscapes of Quarantine. Frieze, Summer 2010.
Sound and Vision. Bookforum, March 2010.
6 Posters on the Swiss Minaret Vote. Print, December 2009.
“Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics.” Rhizome, October 2009.
“The Album Covers of Brian Eno.” Print , October 2009.
End Product: The Book I Drew, Print, November/December 2006.
“The End of the World As We Know It?” The Associated Press, August 17, 2006.
River Dance: Down the Mississippi with the Miss Rockaway Armada. The Village Voice, August 3, 2006.
“High-Tech Graffiti: Spray Paint is So 20th Century,” The New York Times, June 25, 2006.
Reprinted in The International Herald-Tribune as “Devising Digital Techniques for Graffiti Artists,” June 23, 2006.
“Altered States: Carsten Höller,” Res, January 2006.
Brian Eno’s 14 Video Paintings. The Village Voice, January 2006.
“Hey Ho Let’s Go (To Berlin).” The New York Times, September 25, 2005. Reprinted in the Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), October 2005.
“Berlin’s Indoor Mountain of Art and Protest,” The New York Times, August 25, 2005. Reprinted as “A Palatial Mountain of Protest Art,” The International Herald-Tribune, August 27, 2005.
The Design of Dissent at SVA Gallery. The Village Voice, June 2005.
What Sound Does a Color Make? at Eyebeam. The Village Voice, June 2005.
Before Victoria at the NYPL. The Village Voice, May 2005.
Mass Mentality: Cinematic Resonance Imaging. The Village Voice, March 2004.
“Creativity Now at Cooper Union,” The Wire, January 2005.
Stephen Vitiello’s Melatonin: Meditations on Sound in Sleep. The Wire, August 2004.
Amelia Jones’ Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of Dada. The Village Voice, July 2004.
Science and technology
The Choice is Yours: Artist Hacks Voting Machines for US Election-Themed Show. The Guardian, November 8, 2016.
The Music of Bell Labs. RBMA, May 30, 2016.
In Our Image: How InMoov, the Open-Source, 3D-Printed Humanoid Robot was Born. Make (cover story), June/July 2015.
InMoov Around the World. Make, June/July 2015.
Deep brain stimulation (in-depth feature story) for special issue on the brain, Maclean’s (Canada), September 2013.
Why ‘Neuroskeptics’ See an Epidemic of Brain Baloney. The Globe and Mail, April 13, 2013.
Phreaks and Geeks: Exploding the Phone. Slate, February 1, 2013.
BASIC: Inside a Single Line of Code, a Labyrinth. Slate, November 30, 2012.
Deep in the Woods, A Reclusive Toymaker Builds His Robot Army. Wired, October 8, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
Why Polaroid Was the Apple of Its Time. Wired, October 4, 2012. Reprinted in Wired Taiwan/Wired Japan.
Embracing 3-D Printers, Manufacturer Tells Customers to Print Their Own Parts. Wired, September 29, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK/Wired Taiwan/Wired Japan.
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords. Wired, September 6, 2012.
Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PINs, Other Personal Data. Wired, August 29, 2012.
Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle. Wired, August 8, 2012.
How the Artist Who Built the ‘Chuck Close Filter’ Got Slammed by Chuck Close. Wired, July 10, 2012.
3-D For Your Ears: Building the Dolby Atmos System for Brave. Wired, June 28, 2012.
Clouds, a Documentary Shot with Kinect, Explores Beauty of Code. Wired, June 8, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK/Wired Japan.
The Long History of a Little Gadget: MP3. Frieze d/e, Summer 2012.
Geekiest Uses (So Far) of Google’s Moog Synthesizer Doodle. Wired, May 23, 2012.
For Stelarc, Extreme Body Mods Hint at Humans’ Possible Future. Wired, May 2, 2012. Reprinted in io9.
Meet Kraftwerk’s Original 3-D Animator, Rebecca Allen. Wired, April 20, 2012.
From Transistors to Telstar, Idea Factory Traces Bell Labs’ Legacy. Wired, April 4, 2012.
Artist Makes Drawing ‘Bot Out of Hacked Turntables. Wired, March 23, 2012.
Meet CERN’s New Artist in Residence, Julius von Bismarck. Wired, March 19, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK.
Control a Giant Modular Synthesizer From the Comfort of Your Home. Wired, March 15, 2012. Reprinted in Gizmodo.
Idle Screenings Chops Hollywood Movies Into Sea of Animated GIFs. Wired, March 7, 2012.
Japanese Speech-Jamming Gun Designers Reveal Details, Inspiration. Wired, March 6, 2012.
New Video Shows Japanese Speech-Jamming Gun in Action. Wired, March 2, 2012. Reprinted in Wired UK and Wired Japan.
A Homemade, Open-Source Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope. Popular Science, July 30, 2010.
Landscapes of Quarantine. Frieze, Summer 2010.
Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear. Rhizome, January 2010.
“Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics.” Rhizome, October 2009.
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Sound and Music, July 2009.
MiFare RFID Crack More Extensive than Previously Thought. Computerworld, April 15, 2008.
How They Hacked It: The MiFare RFID Crack Explained. Computerworld, March 19, 2008.
Robotics in Movies: One Step Ahead of Reality. American Museum of the Moving Image: Sloan Science and Film, January 2008.
Quick Study: Faraday Cages. Computerworld, September 26, 2006.
“The End of the World As We Know It?” The Associated Press, August 17, 2006.
“Hacker Event Closes with Social Engineering, Jello,” Computerworld, July 24, 2006.
“Arrest Mars Second Day of HOPE,” Computerworld, July 23, 2006.
“Throngs Gather to Restore HOPE,” Computerworld, July 22, 2006.
“High-Tech Graffiti: Spray Paint is So 20th Century,” The New York Times, June 25, 2006.
Reprinted in The International Herald-Tribune as “Devising Digital Techniques for Graffiti Artists,” June 23, 2006.
“A Sheep at the Wheel,” Intersection (UK), February 2006.
“Design for Living,” The Village Voice, January 2006.
“Music and the Brain.” Groove (Germany), November 2005.
“Brave New Hamburger,” The Village Voice, August 2005.
Peter Shapiro’s Turn the Beat Around. The Village Voice, June 2005.
What Sound Does a Color Make? at Eyebeam. The Village Voice, June 2005.
“The Essay: I, Robot,” The Village Voice, February 2005.
“The Acid Test,” The Village Voice (cover story), January 2005.
“Yury and His MagicBike,” The Village Voice, August 2004.
Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open. The Village Voice, March 2004.