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Press release for Enabler and Vanilla Conjuring (纵容者和寻常戏法), an exhibition by Sharon Xinran Zhang @ Lubov.

February 2026



Exhibition text for 粒粒皆閃亮 Every grain is shining, a duo exhibition by Chantal Goulder and Tiffany Tang @ NOW space (鬧空間), Taipei.

On terrazzo floors, decaying multi-use spaces, regeneration, mystery, sparkle. Translated into Mandarin by Tiffany Tang.

May 2025


Every Grain is Shining Text



Ambient Textuality, Textuality as Ambience: Metaphor and Materiality in the Writing of Tan Lin

Undergraduate thesis in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University

On: Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010) and The Patio and the Index (2011), "ambient textuality," inextricability of metaphor and materiality, reading as de-hierarchized system, networked computational technologies, ecocriticism, literary form, Derrida

Against: nature/culture binary, primordial pre-linguistic unity, object-oriented ontology

(also in the Brown Digital Repository)

April 2024



WIRTING IMOGES (PDF link) (web link)

On DALL-E 2, text(?) & image(?), Vilém Flusser, translation/metaphor/gibberish

The College Hill Independent

March 2024



You Never Render The Same River Twice: On Lawrence Lek's game engine worlds

On the game engine as cinematic medium, worldbuilding, Lek's Sinofuturism trilogy, Alexander Galloway, playing, idling, looping, equilibrium, tools

Syntax

December 2023



My house

writing + design

Narrative reflection on X bot @Unsecured_CCTV

The College Hill Independent

October 2023



AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE: Tan Lin's Reading, Writing, and Louis Vuitton

On Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010)

The College Hill Independent

September 2022



Autofiction and Recovery: Tao Lin's Leave Society

On Tao Lin's Leave Society (2021)

The College Hill Independent

December 2021


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