Christine Ross, Select Publications

The Transparent Society: Is the Liberation of Differences still what the 21st Century Needs?,” Journal of Italian Philosophy 4 (2021): 41-51. View text [pdf.]

“Isuma, the Planetary, Listening and the Reinvention of the Counterpublic Sphere,” in FABRICATING PUBLICS: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era, ed. Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito (Open University Press, 2021), 73-95.

“Sarah Sze’s The Last Garden and the Temporality of Wonder:” in Time in the History of Art: Temporality, Chronology, and Anachrony, ed. Dan Karlholm and Keith Fleming Moxey (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), 205- 220. View text [.pdf]

“‘Not Directed Toward Anyone’: The Indifference of a Situation or, Perception under Influence” in Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art, ed. Cristina Albu and Dawna Schuld (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), 211-222. View text [.pdf]

“The Participatory Condition: introduction,” co-written with Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, in The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age, ed. Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), vii-xxxix. View text [.pdf]

“The Spreadability of Video,” in Abstraction in Video, ed. Gabrielle Jennings (University of California Press, 2015). View text [.pdf]

 “An Aesthetics of Inhabitability,” in Mark Lewis Filmworks, eds. Hamid Taieb and François Bovier (Geneva: MetisPresses, 2015). View text [.pdf]

“The Cloud in Video: Notes on Isabelle Hayeur’s Aftermaths,” Espace, 2015. View text [.pdf]

“Toucher l’autre: une histoire de surfaces corpo-électroniques,” in Mona Hatoum, ed. Christine Van Assche (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015). View text [.pdf]

“Après la vidéo,” Revue 24 Images, 2014. View text [.pdf]

“The Movement of the Image. Vitality in Olivia Boudreau’s Media Production” in L’oscillation du visible. Olivia Boudreau, ed. Michèle Thériault (Montreal: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2014). View text [.pdf]

“Depression,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press), 2014. View text [.pdf]

“Historical Time Ecologized,” Esse, 2014. View text [.pdf]

“Movement That Matters Historically: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s 2012 Alter Bahnhof Video Walk,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture [special journal issue: Moving (with) Images: Gender, Affect, and the Senses], eds. Martha Zarzycka and Bettina Papenburg] Spring 2013/Spring 2014. View text [.pdf]

Contemporary Art Between Time and History. Montreal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2013. Brochure [.pdf]

“New Screens Beyond the Screen: The Spatial Distribution of the Image in Augmented Reality Art.”  T. Trodd, ed. Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press 2011): 184-205. View text [.pdf]

"Répétition et longue durée ou, la syntaxe de l'installation vidéo chez Stan Douglas." Jérôme Game, ed. Le récit aujourd'hui: arts, littérature (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes 2011): 137-160. View text [.pdf]

"Experimental Video in Canada and the Question of Identity." Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky, ed. The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press 2010): 393-411. View text [.pdf]

“Spatial Poetics: The (Non)Destinations of Augmented Reality Art, Part I.”  Afterimage, (September/October 2010): 19-24. View text [.pdf]

“Spatial Poetics: The (Non)Destinations of Augmented Reality Art, Part II.” Afterimage, (November/December 2010): 16-20. View text [.pdf]

Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. Introduction [.pdf] Chapter 13 [.pdf]

"The Suspension of History in Contemporary Media Arts." Intermédialités 11 (Spring 2008): 125-148. View text [.pdf]

The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Introduction [.pdf]

"New Media's Presentness and the Question of History: Craigie Horsfield's Broadway Installation." Cinémas 17 (Fall 2006): 37-56. View text [.pdf]

"The Temporalities of Video: Extendedness Revisited." Art Journal 65 (Fall 2006): 82-99. View text [.pdf]

"New media art hybridity and augmented reality: a process for the interaction of art, (neuro)science and AR technology." Convergence 11 (2005): 32-42. View text [.pdf]

"The Disappearing Screen: An Incomplete Matter." Parachute 113 (2004): 15-29. View text [.pdf]

"To Touch the Other: A Story of Corpo-Electronic Surfaces." Amelia Jones, ed. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Routledge 2003): 514-519. View text [.pdf]

"The Insufficiency of the Performative: Video Art at the Turn of the Millenium." Art Journal 60 (Spring 2001): 128-33. View text [.pdf]

"Pipilotti Rist: Images as Quasi Objects." n. paradoxa 7 (2001): 18-25. View text [.pdf]

"Contemporary Knots: The Videography of Manon Labrecque." Parachute 103 (2001): 107-127. View text [.pdf]

"Vision and insufficiency at the Turn of the Millennium: Rosemarie Trockel's Distracted Eye." October 96 (Spring 2001): 87-110. View text [.pdf]

"Redefinitions of abjection in contemporary performances of the female body." Res 31 (Spring 1997): 149-156. View text [.pdf]

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