Before we reach too far into 2026, I want to look back on a few events that closed out 2025.

On December 5, I appeared live on WGXC, a non-commercial radio station in New York’s upper Hudson Valley, where I was interviewed by photographer Lucy Bohnsack about Photo Obscura. Our conversation focused on how experimental practices in photography have always challenged and expanded conventional definitions of what a photograph can be.

On December 10, I moderated a forum organized by IMPULSE Magazine and hosted by Magenta Plains Gallery in NYC called Material Philosophy: Thinking Through the Noise, which brought Joseph Nechvatal’s exhibition Information Noise Saturation into dialogue with François Laruelle’s concept of non-philosophy and its rejection of essentialized thought.

Finally, I published two things: “Hand-Held Theater: Experiments in Gestures of the Digital,” an essay examining the artist duo eteam’s experimental practice and their inquiry into the relationship between traditional Taiwanese puppetry and hand-held digital devices; and I reviewed the Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.