Things I’ve written and presented.
PUBLICATIONS:
Chuk, Natasha (2024). Review of eteam + lololol at PS122: “Semi-conducting Hand-held Moons”, Millennium Film Journal, Issue 79, Re-presentation.
Chuk, Natasha (2024). Select texts in Ida Kvetny’s artist monograph Hybrid Realms, Copenhagen: IK Studio.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). “Reimagining Archives: Radically Rethinking Design, Identity, and Multiplicity,” Public, Volume 34, Issue 68, Dec 2023, p. 28-38.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). eteam’s“Our Non-Understanding of Everything” at CREATE Gallery Review, Chronogram.com.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). “The Power of Small Hidden Networks”, Institute of Network Cultures.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). “The Ghostwriting Substrate of Creative AI”, FLAT Journal, Issue 03: After Tomorrow.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). “Donna Dennis’s Ship/Dock/Three Houses and the Night Sky Takes Over the Private Public Gallery” Review, Chronogram.com.
Chuk, Natasha (2023). “Fern T. Apfel’s ‘Abide With Me’ at the Arts Center of the Capital Region” Review, Chronogram.com.
Chuk, Natasha (2022). "Flexibility, Flâneurie, and Affinity in the Metaverse" Baltic Screen Media Review, vol.10, no.2, pp.235-251.
Chuk, Natasha (2022). “The Moving Picture Show” Review, Millennium Film Journal, Issue 76: Worlds.
Chuk, Natasha (2022). “‘A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco’ at Thomas Cole National Historic Site” Review, Chronogram.com.
Chuk, Natasha (2022). “Curating the Digital” in Lu Ann De Cunzo & Catherine Dann Roeber, Eds. Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies (Cambridge University Press).
Chuk, Natasha (2022). “The Counterpoetics of Joseph DeLappe” in Resistance, Work, Memory and Play: The Work of Joseph DeLappe [Exhibition Catalogue]. Norman, OK, US : Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Chuk, Natasha (2022). “Suspended dislocations” in Laure Catugier’s artist monograph, Architecture is frozen music. Paris: NAIMA Editions.
Chuk, Natasha (2021). “A Robust Flatness”, FLAT Journal, Issue 02: Touch.
Chuk, Natasha (2021). “The Strangely Familiar in Wen-Han Chang’s Strange World’” Review, Ultra Dogme.
Chuk, Natasha (2021). “Seeing the Possibilities, Seeing Red” Kolaj Magazine, #34.
Chuk, Natasha (2021). “Performing the Archive: On Carla Gannis’s wwwunderkammer”, Institute of Network Cultures.
Chuk, Natasha (2020). “Within the Spectrum of a Gaze: Tooraj Khamenehzadeh’s Inspired Tableaux Vivants” Photography Magazine, Vol. 2. (translated to Farsi for publication; available here in English)
Chuk, Natasha (2020). A gaze of cruelty, deferred: Actualizing the female gaze in Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome (2017). Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 7(1).
Chuk, Natasha (2018). 'Media Shy: The Perils of Bashfulness in the Digital Age, an Era of Speed, Satisfaction, and Spectacle' in Inês Amaral, Maria João Barata & Vasco Almeida Eds. Interações: Sociedade e as Novas Modernidades (pp. 92–112). Coimbra: Instituto Superior Miguel Torga (in English).
Chuk, Natasha (2017). 'The Splintered Self, Digital Otherness and Free Will' in Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho, & Ana García López Eds. Con La Red/En La Red: Creación, Investigación y Comunicación Cultural y Artística en la Era de Internet (pp. 403–420). Granada: Universidad de Granada; Downhill Publishing NY (in English).
Chuk, Natasha (2016). 'Self-made: Constructing identity at the threshold between virtual and physical realms' in Denise Doyle and Yacov Sharir, Eds. Metaverse Creativity Journal (now Virtual Creativity Journal) Volume 6: Issue 1 (pp. 7-24). Bristol: Intellect, Ltd.
Chuk, Natasha (2015). Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects (Intellect, Ltd.)
Chuk, Natasha (2015). ‘Digital Steps of Protest, Re-enactment, and Networked Interaction: Joseph DeLappe’s Salt Satyagraha Project’ In Denise Doyle, Ed. New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds (pp. 73-89) Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Chuk, Natasha (2015). ‘The Importance of Abstraction’ First Person Scholar.
Chuk, Natasha (2015). ‘The Language of Repetition’ InterArtive: Original vs. Copy Special Issue #75.
Chuk, Natasha (2015). ‘Mapping the Spaces in Between’ in Chloe Sugden & Christopher Williams-Winn, Eds. Dissect Journal Issue #2.
Chuk, Natasha (2014). ‘The In-Betweenness of Cinema’ Alice, Journal of the Department of MFA Photography, Video and Related Media (Visual Arts Press)
Chuk, Natasha (2007). ‘Game Art Installation ‘Ripon’’ New Media Fix.
Chuk, Natasha (2007). ‘War in Videogame Art: What If We Played A War And Nobody Won?’ Furtherfield.
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
2024: “Ontologies of AI Photography," Helsinki Photomedia 6th International Photography Research Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI.
2023: “The new composite, cameraless, statistical, post-photographic, synthetic image," Arts & Humanities in Digital Transition Conference, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT.
2023: "A Metaverse of Fluidity, Inclusivity + Plurality," Science, Technology and Society (STS) Conference, Graz University of Technology, Graz, AT (online).
2018: "A Gaze of Cruelty, Deferred: An Examination of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome (2017)," Society for Media and Cinema Studies Conference, Toronto, ON.
2017: “The Balancing Act Between Machine and Emotional Intelligence,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2016: “Inside the Internet: On Making the Invisible Visible,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2015: “The Importance of Abstraction,” Different Games Conference, Brooklyn, NY.
2015: “Database Aesthetics: How Computer Logic Shapes the Moving Image in Digital Art,” Computer Culture area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2014: “The Color of Absence,” Rendering the Visible (II): Figure Conference, Moving Image Studies Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2014: “A Cinema of Perpetual Invisibility,” Film Theory and Aesthetics area of Southwest/American Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2013: “Crowding Digital Space,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2012: “The Presence and Absence of Engagement,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2011: “Being Without Being: A Philosophical Exploration of Temporal and Spatial Dimensions in Video Games,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.
2011: “First Culture in Second Life,” SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.