“Yesterday Once More,” essay for Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2023

"TVTV, Four More Years," in Signals: How Video Transformed the World, MoMA, March 5 - July 8, 2023

"Working Models," in Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century, Whitney Museum, April 19 - Aug 13, 2023

"Jonas Mekas, Life Itself," in Jonas Mekas The Camera Was Always Running, Jewish Museum / Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2022

“Remembering,” with Matt Wolf, Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar, ed. Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmerman, Indiana University Press, 2021

“Edge of Tomorrow,” in Olia Lialina: Net Artist, Les Presses du Réel, 2020

“Transactional Analysis: The American Films of Nick Broomfield,” in America: Films from Elsewhere, ed. Shanay Jhaveri, The Shoestring Publisher, 2019

"From Beyond," in Huma Bhabha: They Live, ICA Boston, March 23 - May 27, 2019

Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy, The Criterion Collection, 2019

“Contempo Casuals” in Mike Galinsky, The Decline of Mall Civilization, Rumur, 2019

"The Plastic Pulse Ticks On: (Ryan Trecartin + Lizzie Fitch) x Parker Tyler," catalog essay for Whether Line: Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin, at Fondazione Prada, April 6 - August 5, 2019. 

"Mass Effect: On Art and the Distributed Spectacle," with Lauren Cornell, reprinted in Museums at the Post-Digital Turn, Mousse Publishing, 2019

"From Beyond," essay for Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

John Waters, Female Trouble, The Criterion Collection, June 26, 2018

"Ben Rivers: Ways of Worldmaking," essay for Ben Rivers: Ways of Worldmaking, Mousse Publishing, 2017

"Objects and Events," essay for Anthony McCall, Lismore Castle Arts, 2017

"Time Dilation," essay for Seth Price: Social Synthetic, Stedelijk Museum, 2017

"A Spy or Something: The Cinema of Danny Lyon," essay for Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, Yale University Press, 2016. 

"The Truth About Cats and Dogs," catalog essay for Zak Kitnick, C & D, C L E A R I N G Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May 3, 2016 - June 26, 2016

“Time Frames: Three Episodes in the Evolution of Digital Cinema,” essay for Electronic Superhighway catalog, (Whitechapel Gallery, 2016)

“The Matter of Electronics,” reprinted in Moving Image (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art), (MIT/Whitechapel, 2015)

“Out of the Past,” Liner notes for Blu-Ray of Jonas Mekas’s Walden and Lost, Lost, Lost (Kino Lorber)

“Pop and Cinema: Three Tendencies,” essay for International Pop catalog (Walker Art Center, 2015)

“In and Out of Time: The Motion Pictures of James Nares,” in James Nares (Rizzoli, 2014)

Foreword, You Are Here: Art after the Internet, ed. Omar Kholeif (Cornerhouse, 2014)

“For Bill Douglas,” in Future Perfect, ed. Andrew Durbin (Publication Studio, 2014)

"Head Space: Notes on the Recent History of a Self-Sustained Exhibition Scene for American Experimental Cinema" (2004), revised and republished in Incite Journal of Experimental Media, Issue #4 Exhibition Guide, 2013

"Straight to Video," essay for Raymond Pettibon (Rizzoli, 2013)

"Remains Luther Price," catalog essay for the International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, May 2013

"Portrait, Landscape," catalog essay for Luke Fowler's exhibition at The Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Apr 2 - May 5, 2013

“The Hall of Mirrors,” essay for R.W. Fassbinder’s World on a Wire, Criterion Collection

“Meeting Strangers: Red Light, Green Light,” The Little Joe Clubhouse Reader, April 13-15

“Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come,” essay for A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, Criterion Collection

“The Centaur and the Hummingbird,” catalog essay for Free, New Museum

Liner Notes, Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands, Film Desk DVD

Contributor, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, Performa

“Dead Flowers Film Screenings,” in Dead Flowers, Vox Populi/Participant Press, 2011.

"The Mirror of Lost Time," in Signal Fires. El cine de Jem Cohen / The Cinema of Jem Cohen, Punto de Vista Collection, 2010

"Again," catalog essay for Elisabeth Subrin: Her Compulsion to Repeat, Sue Scott Gallery, 2010

"The Matter of Electronics," catalog essay for Playlist: Playing Games, Music Art at Laboral, Gijon, Spain, December 18, 2009-May 17, 2010 

"Jarman's Monadology," catalog essay for The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art at Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, October 10, 2009-January 10, 2010

"Eleven Evocations (For Paper Rad)," catalog essay for Deterioration, They Said, migros museum, Zürich, Switzerland, August 29-November 8, 2009 

Liner notes, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, Oscilloscope DVD, 2009

"Worlds Within Worlds: Eddo Stern's Mind-Body Games," catalog essay for Eddo Stern: Flamewar, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, January 24-June 20, 2009

"James Fotopoulos," published in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers Working Beyond Hollywood, ed. Michael Atkinson, SUNY, 2008 

"Seven Instances of the Austrian Avant-Garde," Innovative Film Austria 07/08, 2007 

Peter Whitehead: "The Perception of Life," Viennale 2006 catalog, October 13-25, 2006 

Interviews with Brian Frye and Bradley Eros of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and M.M. Serra of the Film-maker's Coop, Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side, ed. Clayton Patterson, Seven Stories Press

Amos Vogel: "Das Leben als Subversive Kunst", Catalog: Viennale 2004, October 15-27, 2004 

Liner notes, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, Home Vision DVD, 2004 

"Jumping Out a Window is a Way of Going Home: Incomplete Sketch of an Essay for Elisabeth Subrin", Cinematexas 2001 catalog, September 14-23, 2001