Bibliography

2024

• "Zach Blas: From Appalachia to Artificial Intelligence," Works In Progress, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
• Katrin Köppert, "Postdigital Camp: Zach Blas’s "Too-Muchness"," DIAPHANES Download PDF
• Caterina Avataneo, "Zach Blas: CULTUS," CURA.
• Nicole Scheyerer, "Tanze den Atomtest! Gehorche dem KI-Gott! Zweimal Darkness in der Secession," Falter
• Julia Anna Wittmann, "Technoreligiöse Beschwörung: Zach Blas in der Secession," gallerytalk
• "Artists: Zach Blas in conversation with Christian Luebbert," Secession Podcast
• alejandro t. acierto and KT Duffy, "May your rage inform your actions: Embodying the monster and trans nonbinary praxis in creative coding," Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus, 20.1

2023

• Camille Crichlow, "ArtSchool Podcast x The Educational Web: Zach Blas," Afterall
• ksenia fir, "Breaking Out of the Known," Art Journal, 82.3
• Jayne Wilkinson, "The Cinematic Universe of Zach Blas," Millenium Film Journal, 78 Download PDF
• Omar Kholeif, "artpost21 Podcast: Zach Blas," artpost21
• David R. Gruber, "Toward a Rhetorical Theory of the Face: Algorithmic Inequalities and Biometric Masks as Material Protest," Rhetoric Review, 42.2
• Constanza Salazar, "Challenging the “Data Body” in New Media Art, 1990s–Present," Afterimage, 50.2
• Marco Marcuso, "L’arte contro il determinismo dei corpi," cheFare
• Amy Hale, "Zach Blas' Tales from a Stony Troll and the Shady Mystics of Silicon Valley," Data Relations, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
• Auryn Reeve, "Rendering queer bodies against the automated gaze," CLOT

2022

• Magdalena Kröner, "Digital Bodies," Kunstforum International, Vol 284
• Camille Intson, "Zach Blas," Art Monthly, 459, September
• Magdalena Kröner, "The Transparent World," Los Angeles Review of Books
• Kevin Brazil, "Zach Blas’s “Unknown Ideals”," Art Agenda
• Zara Dinnen, "Interview with Zach Blas," The White Review, No. 32

2021

• Alice Bucknell, "Zach Blas: Silicon Traces Trilogy," New Mystics
• Katrin Köppert, "Queere Ästhetiken des Algorithmischen in Zach Blas’ Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033," Cultural Inquiry, 22 Download PDF
• Jordan Sjol, "Alumni Profiles Series: Zach Blas," Duke University Graduate School
• "Mirror with a Memory Podcast: Biometrics," Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art

2020

• Miriam Kienle, "Facing Others," Archives of American Art Journal, 59.2, Fall
• Paddy Johnson, "Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Paddy Johnson on How Digital Art from 2016 Foreshadowed Our Current Crisis," Los Angeles Review of Books
• William Kherbek, "The Uncanny Valley Episode II - The Firewall Next Time: Belief, Power, and AI," Flash Art
• Jared Davis, "Queer Psychedelic Age," AQNB
• C.L. Quinan and Hannah Pezzack, "A Biometric Logic of Revelation: Zach Blas’s SANCTUM," M/C Journal
• "A.I. Fantasies and Beliefs with Zach Blas," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
• Rea McNamara, "Look closer at this notorious pro-Trump Twitter bot," Now Toronto

2019

• Magdalena Kröner, "Digital. Virtuell. Posthuman?," Kunstforum International, Vol 265
• Joel McKim, "How a small German city became a leading home for new media art," Apollo Magazine
• "Zach Blas: An Interview," Video Data Bank
• "The Digital Human: Faceless," BBC Radio 4
• Julia Hollingsworth, "Why protests are becoming increasingly faceless," CNN
• Jennifer Rhee, "Toying with the Future: AI, Fantasy, and Zach Blas's Icosahedron," Walker Reader
• "Nadja Millner-Larsen in Conversation with Zach Blas," critical correspondence
• James Bridle and Steve Urquhart, "New Ways of Seeing: Digital Justice," BBC Radio 4
• Alicia Eler, "A giant glowing crystal ball and elf await Walker Art Center visitors," Star Tribune

2018

• "Guangzhou Triennial Pulls Works On Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence," Artforum
• Amy Qin, "Their Art Raised Questions About Technology. Chinese Censors Had Their Own Answer," The New York Times
• Robert Leckie, "Net Art Anthology: Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism)," Rhizome
• Rachel Falconer, "The New Breed of Artist Exploring Society’s Digital Consciousness," Frieze
• Shoshana Magnet, "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston & [NAME]
• Filippo Lorenzin, "Mediated Cages: Interview with Zach Blas," Digicult
• Elizabeth Fullerton, "New Establishment: Zach Blas," Elephant Magazine, Issue 36
• Omar Kholeif, "The Artists Who Will Change the World," Thames & Hudson
• Valerie Amend, "The Internet Is Not a Possibility: An Interview with Zach Blas," OnCurating
• Omar Kholeif, "Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age," Sternberg Press
• Ana Teixeira Pinto, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," Mousse Magazine, Number 63
• Patricia de Vries, "Zach Blas – The Objectivist Drug Party Heather Dewey-Hagborg – Genomic Intimacy," MU
• Tausif Noor, "Critics' Picks: Zach Blas," Artforum
• Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich, and Martha Schwendener, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," The New York Times
• Jasmina Tumbas, "The Ectoplasmic Resistance of Queer: Metric Mysticism, Libidinal Art, and How to Think Beyond The Internet," ASAP Journal
• Claudia D'Alonzo, "Contra-Internet' e la fine della rete secondo Zach Blas," Motherboard Italia
• Iván Zgaib, "Escape from the Internet Swamp," The Brooklyn Rail
• Benjamin Busch, "Zach Blas on the Concept of Contra-Internet," Berlin Art Link
• Vaginal Davis, Daniel Henrickson, Susanne Sachsse, and Marc Siegel, "CHEAP Internet," Cheap Funk, Number 17
• "Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak," e-flux podcast
• Margaret Carrigan, "At Art in General, a Video Work Foreshadows How the Internet Will Destroy Us," Observer
• Elizabeth Fullerton, "Zach Blas at Gasworks," Art in America

2017

• "Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Around the World," Hyperallergic
• Sukanya Deb, "A Californian Ideology: Zach Blas talks exorcising Silicon Valley’s tech determinist demons with the queer mysticism of Contra-Internet in London," AQNB
• Łukasz Zaremba, "Digital Darkness," View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, Number 16
• Zachary Small, "The Queer Deep Web of Zach Blas," Hyperallergic
• Pedro Marum, "We hide our faces so that we can be seen," DUST, Issue 12, Transparency
• Paul Clinton, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," ArtReview
• Colin Perry, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," Art Monthly, Number 411, November
• Hettie Judah, "Liberation day: the artists fighting the power of the market – and the internet," The Guardian
• "Zach Blas," Ràdio Web MACBA
• Katrina Sluis, "Artist Profile: Zach Blas," Rhizome

2016

• Dodie Bellamy, "What Can't Be Seen," Frieze, Issue 184, January-February
• "Cyber invisibles," Tracks ARTE
• Liz Pelly, "How an Art Exhibit on Surveillance Says Too Little by Showing Too Much," The Intercept
• Ajay Hothi, "Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)," Art in America
• Holland Cotter, "Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World," The New York Times
• Eva Respini, "Why Can’t Women Time Travel?' A Dictionary for Ordinary Pictures in the Age of the Internet," Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center
• "Razstavi Črni Kabinet V Galeriji Škuc," RTV4
• Julianne Tveten, "Code is Political," Motherboard
• Amy Ashenden, "Electronic Superhighway: Exploring what technology has done for art," Evening Standard
• Erika Balsom, "On the Grid, Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet," Whitechapel Gallery
• Melissa Ray, "Zach Blas on why we need to stand together," POSTmatter

2015

• Patrick Jagoda, "Network Ambivalence," Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, Volume 4 Download PDF
• Michael Connor, "Contra-Internet GIFs," Rhizome
• Omar Kholeif, "Has the Internet Become a Human or a Thing, or Have We Become the Internet?," Mousse Magazine, Number 47 Download PDF
• Olga Drenda, "Nieprzejrzystość dla każdego: Rozmowa z Zachem Blasem," Dwutygodnik, Number 151
• Tosten Burks, "An Artist’s Pioneering Masks Shield Us from Future Surveillance," GOOD Magazine

2014

• Claudia Arozqueta, "Teoría del color: Critics' Picks," Artforum
• Lynn Berger, "Kunstenaar Zach Blas laat zien dat surveillance meer op het spel zet dan alleen onze privacy," de Correspondent
• Müge Büyüktalaş, "Karşıt-cinsel post-internet ve tekno-gerilla," Art Unlimited, Number 28
• Nicole O’Rourke, "The Moving Museum Profiles: Rafaël Rozendaal and Zach Blas," The Guide Istanbul
• "In the fight to preserve privacy, anti-drone burqas could become the new normal," Fusion Live
• Polina Todorova, "How to escape from surveillance: 8 strategies by artists and designers," Apparat
• "Zach Blas: Meet the Artist," The Moving Museum Istanbul
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• Kyle Chayka, "Fight surveillance by making it visible," Al Jazeera America
• Ben Valentine, "Weaponizing Our Faces: An Interview with Zach Blas," Vice
• Dan Weiskopf, "Picturing the Self in the Age Of Data," Art Papers, July / August
• Marie Lechner, "Le nouvel âge du camouflage," Libération