Index

Upcoming

Talk · November 16, 2026

I’m a guest speaker at the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York on Monday, November 16, 2026, 4pm.

Interview · November 2026, date TBD

Mimi Cabell and I will be interviewed about American Psycho on Preserving Disorder, a Chicago books and literature show on Lumpen Radio hosted by Jeremy Kitchen. Rescheduled to November 2026, date to be announced.

Past

Talk · August 13, 2023

Panel discussion at Mornings in the Garden, LA Art Book Fair, discussing AI and bookmaking with Adam Lucas. Co-presented by Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Printed Matter.

Published · August 1, 2023

AutoSummarize: a second edition with Specific Ideas (Adam Swift Lucas), with a foreword by ChatGPT and a barcode by DALL·E. Launched at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair.

Talk · August 15, 2021

I joined an interview and talk with Caroline Sinders at the University of Edinburgh, coordinated by Isabela Cabrera-Lalinde of Edinburgh College of Art.

Writing · June 1, 2020

I contributed to Atmosphere, “a speculative fiction exquisite corpse under shelter in place” organized by Elia Vargas. He started it on March 16, 2020, as an “experiment in thinking together from afar with friends, artists, writers, and educators across five continents.” 42 people took part. Natalie Sims designed the PDF. My piece is under “new voice task.”

Exhibition · January 9, 2019

I have new work included in a drive-in sound exhibition titled “Away Message” at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. My piece will be broadcast alongside 45 international artists over a low-powered FM transmitter. It runs January 10 to February 23, 2019. If you’re driving through Dallas, tune in.

Workshop · November 11, 2017

I led a Research Methods workshop at the Phase 1 launch of Lean Artist Chicago (Jeremy Bailey / The Moving Museum), November 11–12, 2017, with Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Jon Chambers, Oscar Gonzalez, and Mashaun Ali Hendricks, in partnership with Lost Arts and the SAIC Shapiro Center. Demo Day followed at MCA Chicago on June 23, 2018.

Mentorship · May 21, 2017

I’m an expert mentor for PRAKSIS R6: The Artist Entrepreneur in Oslo, May 21 to June 21, 2017, a month-long residency developed with Jeremy Bailey, UKS, and The Moving Museum, directed by Nicholas Jones. I delivered a two-session workshop, “Empathy & Asking Open Questions,” alongside mentors including Nora O’Murchú, Stephanie Pereira, Marisa Olson, and Silvio Lorusso.

Collection · January 15, 2017

American Psycho and AutoSummarize are now held in the MoMA Library at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through its acquisition of the Library of the Printed Web, a collection of 244 items by 130 artists curated by Paul Soulellis.

Event · November 6, 2016

I’m a selected vendor at Internet Yami-Ichi NY2 at Knockdown Center, New York, selling copies of AutoSummarize and 3D printed coins from the circles I showed at Shape Shapes. Organized by exonemo / IDPW, with fellow vendors including Paul Soulellis, Eva & Franco Mattes, Faith Holland, and Daniel Temkin. Covered by Inverse.

Artist Talk · May 18, 2016

I’m giving an artist talk on work-life.tips at ISEA2016, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, hosted by City University of Hong Kong, May 18–21, 2016.

Exhibition · January 16, 2016

Circles is up at Shape Shapes, Seokhoon Choi’s single-page gallery for artists’ shapes, one show at a time, each an overlay on a single web page. Mine came out of a long stretch of research into coins. I 3D printed a few of them later that year and sold them at the Internet Yami-Ichi.

Citation · April 1, 2015

Kaja Marczewska writes about American Psycho in “Erasing in the Algorithmic Extreme,” published in the Spring 2015 issue of Media-N, the journal of the New Media Caucus, a special issue on “The Aesthetics of Erasure” edited by Paul Benzon and Sarah Sweeney.

Citation · February 1, 2015

Lea Muldtofte Olsen wrote about American Psycho in “A Peer-Reviewed Journal About,” out of Aarhus University’s Digital Aesthetics Research Center in partnership with transmediale. She reads it through Derrida and Bernard Stiegler and a concept called grammatization.

Press · August 30, 2014

American Psycho is featured in a write up on Electric Lit. Maru Pabón writes, “It’s a fascinating and unsettling object, a testament to the possibilities of combining digital aesthetics and the traditional book form.”

Published · January 15, 2014

My work appears in Issue 1 of The Enemy, edited by Charlie White, alongside contributions from Roe Ethridge, Hedi El Kholti, Mike Kelley, Michael Smith, and David Robbins.

Exhibition · May 11, 2013

Endless Opportunities is included in Toonskin, curated by Kenya Robinson at Artspace in New Haven, May 11 to June 30, 2013. The show brought together nineteen artists reinterpreting Blackness, and otherness more broadly, within an animated context, reading sequential art against the minstrel underpinnings of Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse.

Published · September 1, 2012

American Psycho: an artist’s book with Mimi Cabell, published by Traumawien, Vienna. Ellis’s novel sent through Gmail, Google’s ads kept as footnotes, the text then erased. It now has its own Wikipedia article.

Event · November 4, 2011

I showed work at BYOB Cincy on November 4, 2011, a one-night bring-your-own-beamer exhibition in the lobby and lower level of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, organized by Jordan Tate, Aaron Walker, and Chris Collins. Everyone hauled in their own projector. Clement Valla came out from Providence with me.

Exhibition · March 3, 2011

The Story of Art is included in gif. jpg. png. tif., curated by Jess Ramsay at HEREart in New York, opening March 3, 2011. The book sat on a shelf I built and carried down on the bus, with copies of AutoSummarize out on the desk to be handled. Also in the show: Jordan Tate and Adam Tindale, Seyhan Musaoğlu, and Giselle Zatonyl.

Published · August 1, 2010

AutoSummarize: algorithmic summaries of the 100 most downloaded copyright-free books on Project Gutenberg, each reduced to ten sentences by Microsoft Word’s AutoSummarize function. Featured in The New Yorker and The Rumpus.