Writing

I wrote a piece for Outland about the similarities between CowParade and NFT PFP projects.

I wrote a piece for Outland about NFT projects where I coined the term “ectogame.”

PAK’S POLITICS on the political implications of blockchain art, for Outland.

CURATION UNDER CONSTRAINT on the promise and pitfalls of curating NFTs, for Outland.

In 2021 I wrote about the crypto art boom for Artforum.

At the end of each year I used to write about the best artworks and exhibitions I saw that year. Here’s 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 (part 1, part 2).

In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic shut down ArtPrize. I reflected on how that happened and what it means for the future of the organization in a piece called Is ArtPrize Over?

In 2018 I completed my masters thesis by writing Collapse and Recovery: Failure as Curatorial Strategy in dOCUMENTA (13).

In 2016 I wrote a series for Michigan Quarterly Review called Lolo the Donkey and the Avant-Garde That Never Was: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

I wrote a review of Carson Davis Brown’s photographs called Anti-Retail Therapy for MN Artists in 2014.

For MN Artists I wrote a history of Cabin Time, a nomadic artist residency in 2013.

(Larger writing archive coming soon.)