MakersPlace Essays & Interviews

In my 2+ years at MakersPlace, I've written dozens of essays and art genre guides and conducted nearly 200 interviews. This is what I consider to be my best work of that large chunk of output.

Selected Essays

Reading Operator’s “Human Unreadable”

Urs Fischer: Mundanity as Concept

Pak’s "404" and the Presence of Absence

Language, Lineage, and Transhumanism in Sasha Stiles’ "FOUR CORE TEXTS"

Imagining the Never-Was with Brendan Dawes’ "Collisions" Series

Osinachi and the Well-Furnished Room of Art Voices

The Rebellious Loves of Leo Crane

The Neon Neo-Expressionism of marubu

The History of the Death of Art (Or is AI the End of Art As We Know It?)

How To Look At Art And Develop A Personal Connection To It

Selected Art Genre Guides

A Rough Guide to Every Digital Art Genre We Could Think Of

Guide to Data Art

Guide to Experiential Art in Web3

Guide to Land Art & Site-Specific Work in the Digital World

Guide to On-Chain Conceptual Art

What is Trash Art?

Guide to Dynamic Digital Art

Low-Res Masterpieces: 9 Pixel Art Virtuosos You Need to Know

Selected Interviews

Meaning Making, Automata, and DAOs — Interview with Simon Hudson of Botto DAO

Any Data Can Be Art and Anything Can Be Data — Interview with Brendan Dawes

Embracing Failure, Celebrating Joy, & Pushing Poetry Further Out — Interview with Vincent D’Onofrio & Laurence Fuller

Turning Mallets into Paintbrushes & Using Tech to Create a Total Artform — Interview with Maria Finkelmeier

Anamorphosis, Land Art, and Giant Tardigrades — Interview with Patrik Proško

Lonely Astronauts, Average Creatures, and Abandoned Buildings — Interview with Photographer Karen Jerzyk

GIF as the Silent Medium for Philosophy and Music — Interview with A.L. Crego

Art as Scientific Hypothesis — Interview with Michal Nesazal

Interview with Nigerian Digital Artist Osinachi

Interview with Glitch Artist sgt_slaughtermelon