Publications

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Published articles in chronological order:

«A Different Sense of Scale: Transformative Practices in the Work of Anne Duk Hee Jordan – Boris Magrini in conversation with Anne Duk Hee Jordan», HFBK Hamburg: Lerchenfeld (2025) n.76

«Sahej Rahal – Anhad» in WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin: Hatje Cantz 2024) 140-141

«Kunst und das Metaverse heute – ein Wettbewerbsfeld» Kunstforum (2023), Vol. 290

«Art and Web3 – Decentralization Put to the Test» in Algorithmic Imaginary, Art on the Blockchain and in the Metaverse, edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini (Basel: CMV 2023)

«Patrick Steffen in conversation with Boris Magrini » in Swiss art interviews edited by Patrick Steffen (Locarno: Armando Dadò editore 2023), 114-123

«Beyond the Nature-Culture Dualism – Towards a Post-Technology Approach in Art»Studio Magazine (2022), n.5
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Sabine Himmelsbach, Boris Magrini, «Earthbound: In Dialogue with Nature – Introduction to the exhibition» in Earthbound: In Dialogue with Nature edited by Sabine Himmelsbach, Françoise Poos (Berlin: Hatje Cantz 2022), 22-33

«Automation and Intentionality — Photography Without the Camera» in Automated Photography edited by Milo Keller, Claus Gunti, Florian Amoser (ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Mörel Books: 2021), 137-147
  

«Strategies of Neogeography in Recent Media Art» in Shifts in Mapping – Maps as a Tool of Knowledge edited by Christine Schranz (Bielefeld: transcript 2021), 239-254

«Radical Gaming – The Language of Video Games in Media Art» in Radical Gaming edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini (Basel: CMV 2021), 11-27

«NFT e criptoarte – Un mercato controverso per l’arte digitale» Kunstbulletin (2021), n.10

«An Open-Source Application as a Collaborative Work of Art» in Whole Waste Catalog: Undo It Yourself edited by Raphael Perret (Zurich: Amsel Verlag 2021), 113-115

«Rendering Refusal» Kunstbulletin (2021), n.3
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«New Digital Collage – Arte in rete» Kunstbulletin (2020), n.6

«(Deep) Media Art and Meme Shaping – The artistic involvement in science and technology and the foundation of alternative narratives» in Technologos / Art Medium, edited by Dmitry Bulatov and Yana Tsyrlina (Perm: 2019)

«Building New Paradigms – A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence and Art» in Entangled Realities edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini (Basel: CMV 2019), 95-123

«Forensic Architecture — Interdisciplinarità in difesa dei diritti umani» Kunstbulletin 
(2019), n.1/2

Confronting the Machine: An Enquiry into the Subversive Drives of 
Computer-Generated Art (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2017)

«Remote Execution for Vendetta» in <script>alert(“!Mediengruppe Bitnik”);</script> (Vienna: VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017), 84-97

«Video Sound Art Festival – Erotismo urbano» Kunstbulletin (2016), n.11

«Relational Aesthetics in the Age of Postdigital Fermentation» in ZHdK Master Fine Arts Degree Show 2016, eBook

Corrado Nai, Boris Magrini and Julia Offe, «Let microorganisms do the talking, let us 
talk more about microorganisms» in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (2016), 3:5

«Alternative Visions: Human Futures» in Transdiscourse 2 – Turbulence and Reconstruction, edited by Jill Scott (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), 217-232

«Short Cuts – Un secondo sguardo sull’arte cinetica e programmata» 
Kunstbulletin (2015), n.6

«Se soigner avec des plaies» Le Phare, Journal du Centre culturel suisse de Paris 
(2014), n.165, 10-11
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«Eva e Franco Mattes – The Darknet» Kunstbulletin (2014), n.12

«Beyond Mere Tools» in Political Interventions, Edition Digital Culture 1, 
Christoph Merian Verlag and Migros-Kulturprozent, 2014, 27-38, 141-151

«Festival Videoex – Un secolo di sperimentazione italiana» Kunstbulletin (2014), n.5

«Paolo Cirio – Expect him» Kunstbulletin (2014), n.3
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«Hackteria: An Example of Neomodern Activism» in Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (2014), Vol. 20, Issue 1, 58-71

“Should generative art be political?” in Proceeding of the GA2012 – XV Generative Art Conference (Lucca, 2012)
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«Transmediale 2013 – Sex, octopus and social networks» Kunstbulletin (2013), n.1-2
 
«Anne-Julie Raccoursier – Nuages de fumée», « Les racines du patriotisme» in Images en mouvement (Zurich : Credit Suisse AG, 2012)
 
«Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud – La rivoluzione senza Internet» Kunstbulletin 
(2012), n.9
 
«Shift Festival – Eine Stimme für die Neuen Medien» Kunstbulletin (2011), n.11
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«Aurelio Kopainig – Oltre Ogni Immaginazione» in I Sotterranei dell’Arte 2009 
(Monte Carasso : gce, 2009), 6-12

«Prisca Groh», «Christian Moccia», «Miki Tallone» in I Sotterranei dell’Arte 2008 
(Monte Carasso : gce, 2009), 7-12
 
«Marco Poloni – L’Insostenibile Probabilità degli Eventi» Kunstbulletin (2008), n.7-8
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«Véronique Zussau : Le Sublime Détourné» in Prismes et compressions – Véronique Zussau (Stämpfli Verlag AG, 2007), 47-49

«Stella Capes», «Nicolas Pages», «Lauris Paulus», «Frédéric Post», «St-Denis®» in Day after Day – Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art, 2003-2007, (Fribourg : Kunsthalle, Fri-Art, 2007), 278-279, 332-333, 310-311, 308-309, 294-295

Christian Kathriner, Davide Cascio – Scala per una città volante (Lugano : Gruppo Editori, Casa Editrice Indipendente, 2006)
 
«Miti, supereroi e disincanto» in I Sotterranei dell’Arte 2005  (Monte Carasso : gce, 2006), 25-29

Davide Cascio, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2006 (Luzern: Edizioni Periferia, 2006)
 
«Poetica degli spazi bianchi» in I Sotterranei dell’Arte 2006 (Monte Carasso : gce, 2007), 13-23
 
«Donatella Spaziani» inBeyond the Copan – Supernatural Urbanism (Paris : ENSBA, 2005)
 
«Archives et montage, poétique de la résistance. Artavazd Pelechian, Harun Farocki» Kunstbulletin (2004), n.1/2

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