These texts support the research around my work and address themes of fractured archives, speculative history, artificial intelligence as an unreliable historian, and the materiality of ruins.
1. Literature, Archives & the Nature of Knowledge
- Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. Translated by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, New Directions, 1962.
A collection of short stories exploring infinite archives, labyrinthine knowledge systems, and the instability of truth, including “The Library of Babel,” which directly informs my speculative codices and AI-generated artifacts as flawed historical records.
- Eco, Umberto. Ur-Fascism. The New York Review of Books, 1995.
A critical essay analyzing the traits of fascism and its use of mythologized history to sustain ideological power, relevant to my interrogation of historical erasure and the aesthetics of authority.
- Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Zero Books, 2009.
Examines how late capitalism flattens history and repackages nostalgia, a theme I engage with in her critique of utopian failures and material entropy.
- Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith, Pantheon Books, 1972.
A foundational text analyzing how history is structured, rewritten, and controlled, paralleling my engagement with fractured archives and digital mediation.
- Krauss, Rosalind. Grids. October, vol. 9, Summer 1979, pp. 50–64.
Explores the conceptual and aesthetic function of the grid in modern and contemporary art, which aligns with my use of codices, mosaics, and structured tablet works.
- Ngai, Sianne. Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting. Harvard University Press, 2012.
Analyzes contemporary aesthetic perception and how media shapes our understanding of art, resonating with my interrogation of digital culture and AI-generated narratives.
2. AI, Simulation & the Digital Archive
- Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser, University of Michigan Press, 1994.
A seminal text on the collapse of historical authenticity in an era of simulation, directly informing my use of AI as a generator of speculative artifacts that blur fiction and truth.
- Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. Routledge, 1991.
Explores the hybridity between human and machine, aligning with my fusion of organic and digital processes in her sculptures and AI-driven works.
- Jones, Caroline A. Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art. MIT Press, 2006.
Analyzes how technology mediates sensory perception and material engagement in contemporary art, providing a framework for my hybridization of AI-generated imagery and physical sculpture.
- Paglen, Trevor. Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You). The New Inquiry, December 2016.
Discusses AI and machine vision’s impact on contemporary image-making, crucial for understanding my use of AI as an unreliable archive of history.
- Steyerl, Hito. The Wretched of the Screen. e-flux and Sternberg Press, 2012.
Examines digital aesthetics and the role of poor images in shaping historical narratives, relating to my engagement with algorithmic distortions and speculative archives.
3. Materiality, Ruins & Spolia
- Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1951.
An examination of political power and historical manipulation informs my critique of controlled narratives and erasure.
- Ballard, J.G. The Drowned World. Berkley Books, 1962.
A speculative novel depicting a world overtaken by climate disaster and submerged ruins, mirroring my fascination with lost civilizations and material decay.
- Riegl, Alois. The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin. Oppositions, vol. 25, Fall 1982, pp. 21–51.
Explores how societies preserve and interpret ruins, informing my engagement with architectural spolia and historical instability.
- Smithson, Robert. The Monuments of Passaic. Artforum, December 1967.
A meditation on entropy, decay, and industrial ruins, aligning with my exploration of abandoned structures and speculative futures.
- Woods, Lebbeus. Radical Reconstruction. Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.
Speculative architectural interventions addressing political and historical upheaval are relevant to my engagement with Brutalist forms and dystopian narratives.
4. Myth, Codices & Speculative Archaeology
- Ancient Texts – The Orphic Hymns. Translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
A collection of hymns exploring cosmic creation myths, particularly the Cosmic Egg—a recurring motif in my sculptural works.
- Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
A speculative dystopian novel that aligns with my cautionary approach to failed utopias and historical instability.
- Dead Sea Scrolls. Translations by Geza Vermes, Penguin Books, 1962.
A key example of fragmented historical texts, paralleling my codices and AI-generated manuscripts.
- Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian. Translated by Grace Frick, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1951.
A literary meditation on empire, historical legacy, and architectural ruins, resonating with my sculptural explorations of power structures.
5. Poetry & Lyrical Texts
- Borges, Jorge Luis. The Other Tiger. El otro tigre, in El Hacedor, Emecé Editores, 1960.
Explores the tension between representation and reality, reflecting my engagement with digital simulation and speculative artifacts.
- Carson, Anne. Nox. New Directions, 2010.
A fragmented visual-poetic text that mirrors my codices and speculative historical reconstructions.
- Celan, Paul. Death Fugue. Translated by Pierre Joris, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
A meditation on loss, memory, and language that parallels my engagement with historical trauma and digital erasure.
- Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. Hogarth Press, 1922.
Explores historical fragmentation and cultural memory, resonating with my sculptural and digital reconstructions.
- Heaney, Seamus. Bogland. North, Faber & Faber, 1975.
Addresses excavation, history, and material preservation, themes that align with my speculative archaeology.
- Sappho. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Translated by Anne Carson, Vintage Canada, 2003.
Carson’s translation preserves the gaps in Sappho’s verses, emphasizing how history is pieced together from ruins.
6. Film & Media Influences
- Marker, Chris. La Jetée. Argos Films, 1962.
A post-apocalyptic time-travel narrative constructed from still images, engaging with memory and archival distortion—key themes in my practice.
- Scott, Ridley. Blade Runner 2049. Alcon Entertainment, 2017.
Examines AI, simulation, and the instability of historical records, paralleling my AI-driven works.
- Tarkovsky, Andrei. Stalker. Mosfilm, 1979.
A philosophical sci-fi film about an enigmatic zone that rewrites reality, aligning with my speculative ruins and portals.