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Artificial Ignorance!
Encyclopedia Entry.
Katherine Behar, "Artificial Ignorance!" in Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt, Eds. (Athens: Onassis Publications, 2022).

"Do Baskets Contain Computation's Counterhistory?" in The Hoosac Institute
Jenny Perlin, editor. The Hoosac Institute Journal 9 (September 2021).

New translations of "An Introduction to OOF" are available online:

Plus, a new translation of and old paper:

  • "Command and Control: Cybernetics and BDSM" has been translated into Spanish by Ediciones Holobionte: Part I and Part II.

BOOKS

Object-Oriented Feminism
Katherine Behar, editor. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.)
280 pages, 32 b&w photos. $27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0109-7. $94.50 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0108-0. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.

Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girisi
Katherine Behar, Fatma Colakoglu, and Ulya Soley, editors.
Bilingual (Eng/Tr) Exhibition Catalogue (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2016.)
118 pages, full color. £17.95 / $22.70 / 79.10 TL. ISBN: 978-605-4642-61-8.

And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art
Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson, editors. (Earth: punctum books, 2016.)
86 pages. Full color. ISBN-13: 978-0692652664. E-Book + Print: paperbound/7.44 X 9.69 inches

Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity
An Inquiry toward Decelerationist Aesthetics
Katherine Behar. (Earth: punctum books, 2016.)
70 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0692652831. E-Book + Print: paperbound/4.5 X 7.13 inches

E-Waste
Exhibition Catalogue.
Katherine Behar. (Lexington: Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, 2014).

WRITING ABOUT FEMINISM

"Objects That Matter: Bodies, Art, and Big Data" Katherine Behar, interviewed by Anna Mirzayan
Chiasma, Issue 5 (May 2019)

Uma introdução ao OOF
Translated by Camila Vieira da Silva and Julio Bezerra
Revista Eco Pòs, v. 21, n. 2 (2018)

Object-Oriented Feminism
Katherine Behar, editor. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.)
280 pages, 32 b&w photos. $27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0109-7. $94.50 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0108-0. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.

"The Other Woman" in After the Speculative Turn
Katerina Kolozova and Eileen Joy, editors. (Earth: punctum books, 2016.)
200 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0998237534. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and $19.00 in print: paperbound/5 X 8 in.

In Search of Digital Feminisms
Guest Edited for Lateral, the Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.
Katherine Behar and Silvia Ruzanka, Guest Editors, In Search of Digital Feminisms, Lateral, Vol 2, (Spring 2013).

Feminism and New Media Art: Hot or Not?
Conference Proceedings Paper.
Silvia Ruzanka and Katherine Behar, "Open Dialogue, Feminism and New Media Art: Hot or Not?" Media-N, Vol 7, No 2 (Fall 2011).

WRITING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

Artificial Ignorance!
Encyclopedia Entry.
Katherine Behar, "Artificial Ignorance!" in Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt, Eds. (Athens: Onassis Publications, 2022).

Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity in new edited volume
Chapter.
Katherine Behar, "Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity" in The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures, Donatella Della Ratta, Peter Sarram, Geert Lovink, and Teresa Numerico, Eds. (London: Palgrave, 2022).

"Do Baskets Contain Computation's Counterhistory?" in The Hoosac Institute
Jenny Perlin, editor. The Hoosac Institute Journal 9 (September 2021).

Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity
An Inquiry toward Decelerationist Aesthetics
Katherine Behar. (Earth: punctum books, 2016.)
70 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0692652831. E-Book + Print: paperbound/4.5 X 7.13 inches

The Problem with Platforms
Essay.
Katherine Behar, "The Problem with Platforms" in Future Publishing: Visual culture in the age of possiblity, Mark Little and Marquard Smith, Eds. Journal of Visual Culture. (March 2013).

Command and Control: Cybernetics and BDSM
Conference Proceedings Paper.
Katherine Behar, "Command and Control: Cybernetics and BDSM." Digital Arts and Culture 2009 Proceedings, University of California Irvine (electronic).

Capturing Glocality 1 — Online Mapping Circa 2005: Mapping Glocalities
Journal Paper.
Katherine Behar, "Capturing Glocality 1 — Online Mapping Circa 2005: Mapping Glocalities." Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Vol I, No 4 (October 2009): 1-25.

Capturing Glocality 2 — Online Mapping Circa 2005: Mapping Territories
Journal Paper.
Katherine Behar, "Capturing Glocality 2 — Online Mapping Circa 2005: Mapping Territories." Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Vol I, No 1 (January 2009): 1-22.

LiveChatter: Impersonal Impersonation of a Chatterbot Persona
Virtual Performance Lecture Text. (In conjunction with live performance.)
Presented at (re)Actor2: Bad Girls, Gadgets, and Guerilla Performance - the 2nd Annual Conference on Digital Live Art, Leeds Metropolitan Universtiy, Leeds, UK. 10 September, 2007

Find and Replace: On the Aesthetic Programmability of Media
Microsoft Word + Philosophy

talk to the machine!
Virtual Performance Lecture Text. (In conjunction with live performance.)
Presented at Interzone 02 De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam. 1 April, 2005

Flash[dot]Flatness: Spatial Metaphors in Dot Syntax ActionScript in Macromedia
Flash 5
EXTENSIONS: The Online Journal for Embodied Technology v.1-2004

WRITING ABOUT ARTISTIC RESEARCH

"Do Baskets Contain Computation's Counterhistory?" in The Hoosac Institute
Jenny Perlin, editor. The Hoosac Institute Journal 9 (September 2021).

"Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar" in Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art
Katherine Behar, Fatma Colakoglu, and Ulya Soley
Giovanni Aloi, editor. (Boston: Brill Publishers, 2018).

"Wasting Away: Thoughts on 'Digital Trash'" in Digital Trash
Jim Brown and Robert Emmons, editors. (Camden: Stedman Gallery at Rutgers University, 2018).

Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girisi
Katherine Behar, Fatma Colakoglu, and Ulya Soley, editors.
Bilingual (Eng/Tr) Exhibition Catalogue (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2016.)
118 pages, full color. £17.95 / $22.70 / 79.10 TL. ISBN: 978-605-4642-61-8.

"Nonhuman Solidarities: Katherine Behar and Eben Kirksey Discuss High Hopes (Deux)" in Imperceptibly Slowly Opening
Caroline Picard, editor. (Chicago: Green Lantern Press, 2016.)
292 pages. Full color. ISBN: 978-0-9974165-0-3.

And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art
Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson, editors. (Earth: punctum books, 2016.)
86 pages. Full color. ISBN-13: 978-0692652664. E-Book + Print: paperbound/7.44 X 9.69 inches

E-Waste
Exhibition Catalogue.
Katherine Behar. (Lexington: Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, 2014).

There's an app for that shirt!
Conference Proceedings Paper (with RSI).
Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang and Katherine Behar, "There's an app for that shirt! Evaluation of augmented reality tracking methods on deformable surfaces for fashion design." Proc. SPIE 8649, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2013, 86490D (March 4, 2013); doi:10.1117/12.2001726; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2001726.

Avatar Impotence
Conference Proceedings Paper (with RSI).
Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang, and Katherine Behar, "Avatar Impotence: On 'User Will,' 'Avatar Agency,' and 'System Control' in Second Life." cw, pp.227-231, 2011 International Conference on Cyberworlds, 2011.

Ambient Clumsiness
Conference Proceedings Paper (with RSI).
Silvia Ruzanka and Katherine Behar, "Ambient Clumsiness in Virtual Environments." Proc. SPIE 7525, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2010, 75250C (January 27, 2010); doi:10.1117/12.845705; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.845705

INimaging
Journal Paper.
Katherine Behar, "INimaging." Visual Communication Quarterly, Vol 16, No 3 (July-September): 134-139.