Archive

• Toward a Comparative Futurism, catalogue essay, Cosmological Arrows, Bonniers Konsthall + Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm (August 2019). #timetravel
• National Identity Meets Digital Nativity, a profile on Shabahang Tayyari, Canvas Magazine, no. 15, vol. 14 (July 2019).
• On the Installation Shots of Contemporary Art Exhibitions, catalogue essay, thing, aura, metadata. A poem on making., Parallel Platform, PhotoIreland Festival, PhotoIreland Foundation, Dublin (July 2019).
• review: Shilpa Gupta and Zarina at Ishara Art Foundation, art–agenda (June 2019).
• On the Works of Morteza Ahmadvand, Ghazaleh Hedayat, and Sahand Hesamiyan, catalogue essays, The Spark Is You, Parasol Unit, London and Venice (May 2019).
• CAD Conspiracy: Pattern Recognition in Contemporary Art (with Bahar Noorizadeh and Chris Tegho), Generative Adversarial Network, video-essay installation (2019–ongoing).
• Ethics of Time Travel: Toward a Comparative Futurism, lecture, Art After Culture, “The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism,” e-flux journal + La Colonie, Paris (February 2019). #timetravel
• Peer Pressuring the Past, Future-Fictioning the Present, brochure text, Bahar Noorizadeh: Governing Machines and the Future of Futures, Mercer Union, Toronto (October 2018).
• “What Was Gulf Futurism” (with Ahamd Makia), in ZIGG: Superficial (October 2018). #timetravel
• Notes From the Attic: Displaying the Material History of the CIA, Cabinet, issue 65 (Fall 2017–Winter 2018).
• A Postcard from Tehran, Spike Art Quarterly, No. 57 (September 2018).
• Tehran Behind the Screen, Domus, No. 1027 (September 2018).
• A Butterfly Effect Across the Chronosphere, lecture, Armen Avanessian & Enemies #30: Ethnofuturisms, Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin (September 2018). #timetravel
• Ethnofuturismen, co-edited with Armen Avanessian (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2018). #timetravel
• Instrumental Xenotation, blog post (September 2017).
• The Politics of Surplus: An Affirmative Strategy of Resistance, summative essay for MA special subject Geopoetics, Goldsmiths, University of London (August 2017).
• Objective Hyperreality vs. Hyperobjective Reality, blog post (July 2017).
• Despotic Ophidiophobia, blog post (July 2017).
• “Post-Capitalist Desire”, in The Fisher-Function (London: EGRESS, 2017), 13–17.
• This Is the Sea, Isn’t It?, catalogue essay for This Is the Sea at artmonte-carlo, Monaco (April 2017).
• Contract of Identification with Pain or A Child’s Instantaneous Desire for Aging, blog post (February 2017).
• 🚨💭, blog post (January 2017).
• The Exhibition Whisperer, Spike Art Quarterly, online (January 2017).
• The Aesthetics of Afterlife, blog post (November 2016).
• August 3, 2016: After Pak Sheung-Chuen, blog post (August 2016).
• Trans-Temporal Perspectives, PNYX (an autonomous imprint of Architectural Association, London), issue 24 (June 2016).
• An Alternative Entry in Five Moves, blog post (June 2016).