Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics. Abstract: The rapid spread of generative AI tools has sparked urgent debates about ethics, governance, and even existential risk. These concerns are real, but they often miss a prior and constitutive dimension: the aesthetic.

Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.

I'm excited to announce that GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimals! -- BOVINE, part of a larger series of collaborations between me and Karin Denson, will be installed at GearBox Gallery in Oakland. The opening is Saturday, November 1 (1-4pm), and it will be on view through December 6 (with a closing event and artist talk starting at 2pm). The installation comprises a set of paintings and custom software that runs a real-time generative audiovisual experience. You can read more about the piece here. And here are a couple of installation shots from a recent show at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley:

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My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the…