Writer
and theorist on tactical and strategic uses of technology, focusing on
historical deployment and social effects. Chronicler of the Future
Weird. Experimenting with radio waves, media waves, and the rift between
institutional and insurgent technological approaches. Current research
topics include: anthropocene landscapes, infrastructural aesthetics, and
material ecologies.
He is on Twitter @interdome.From a professional standpoint, Adam is a freelance writer, installation artist, and is currently co-curator of
Weird Shift, a research and gallery project in Portland, Oregon. For inquiries,
email is here.
Adam writes a weekly email about what he is working on, covering
everything,
from writing to art to things that are maybe even a little bit secret.
It is an email newsletter, because the RSS and Twitter feed are all just
a little, you know, sometimes.
You can subscribe to these emails here.Selected Publications
Contributor:
2017
Novel: Orthogonal Procedures - Resurrection House (Coming soon!)
2016
Non-Fiction Book:
The End of Money - New Scientist
(Coming soon!)
Essay:
Case Work - International Sculpture Center
Speculative Reporting:
After the Big One - Motherboard
2015
2014
2013
2012
Art Text:
2011
Presentations
2015
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR: "Virtual Space Aesthetics"
Radical Networks, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY: "The Future History of the Solarpunk Ham Radio Club" (with Rob Ray)
Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, NM: "Creating a Usable Historical Narrative of Future Drone Technology"
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom: "Water Infrastructure Aesthetics"
San Francisco Arts Quarterly, San Francisco, CA: "Weird Futures" (with Morehshin Allahyari and Sterling Crispin)
Vernacular Architecture Forum, Chicago, IL: "The Hexayurt at Burning Man: DIY Culture Online and Vernacular Construction" (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
2014
As Above, So Below, Lincoln, UK: "Major Drone Religions" - Presenter
Theorizing the Web, Brooklyn, NY: "Drones, for better or worse" - Panel Organizer
PNCA, Portland, OR: "Vaporware & the Future-Weird" - Presenter
Arse Elektronika, San Francisco, CA: "The Gendered Internet of Things" (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
2013
Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference, New York, NY: "Do Drones Dream of Electric Sheep? - Panel Participant"
Arse Elektronika, San Francisco, CA: "Drones and the Gaze: Technological Scopophilia" (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
Weird Shift Con 2013, Portland, OR: "Teleogics and Games"
MediaCities,
Buffalo, NY: "Media Platforms, Occupied Media Space, and Political
Narratives: A Critical Examination of the Occupy Protests, 2011-2012"
(with Rosalynn Rothstein)
PNCA, Portland, OR: "The New Aesthetic and The New Politic"
2012
Arse Elektronika, San Francisco, CA: "Multi-Profile, Platform Based Socio-Sexual Performance Constituted thru Polyamorous Relationships"
Weird-Shit Con, Portland, OR: "Notes on a New Politic"
Open Engagement, Portland, OR: "Notes on Research into the Zwischenzug Factory" (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
Law and Disorder, Portland, OR: "The Role of Writing and Research in Developing Revolutionary Movements - Panel Participant"
Occupy Solidarity Social Forum, Olympia, WA: "Anarchist Process and Occupied Media"
2011
The Non-Human in Anthropology, Prague, CZ: "Junk Mail Cyborgs" (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
Selected Art Exhibitions
Website for artwork, with partner Rosalynn Rothstein:
www.5ooo.org.
(Solo Shows Marked With *)
2015
*(Forthcoming) Box Gallery, Palatine, IL
*The Development of the Tashigahara-Van Helmont Antenna, Exoskeleton, Los Angeles, CA
June Exhibition, Lab PDX, Portland, OR
Window Installation, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
February Exhibition, Lab PDX, Portland, OR
2014
Included on City of Seattle, Washington Office of Arts and Culture, Emerging Artists Roster.
Lost and Found, Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR
*Provisional Loops, Art in Rural Storefronts, Scio, OR
*Port City Installation, Port City Gallery, Portland, OR
Weird Shift Storefront, Co-Curator, Portland, OR
Re-Purposed Sound Machine, Project Space, Salem, OR
2013
*Solid State, Art in Rural Storefronts, Sweet Home, OR
Drones, Gallery Project, Detroit & Ann Arbor, MI
Residency, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
Murmuration Festival, online (co-curator)
Weird Shift Con 2013, Portland, OR (co-curator)
YX2, Project Space, Salem, OR
2012
*Untitled Product, Spaceworks, Tacoma, WA
*YX, Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP, Portland, OR
Lost Valley Installation, Eugene, OR
Northwest Blue Recess Installation, Bellingham, WA
2011
*Tunnel Space, Red Rover Gallery, Portland, OR
*Bohemian Warehouse Installation, Portland, OR
"Speciation", Billboard Art Project, Corona, CA
Bordertown Group Show, Detroit Design Festival, Detroit, MI
2010
*please treat things as you would like them to be treated, Project Space Two, Salem, Oregon
Masks of Incognito, Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP, Portland, OR
2009
Summer Print Show, Bamboo Grove Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Education
BA 2005 Religious Studies Grinnell College
MA 2007 Philosophy The New School for Social Research
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