Will
Fenstermaker

Will
Fenstermaker

ARCHIVE: All SELECTED 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 BEYOND

Selected Writing

Tetsuya Ishida’s Fetishes of the Alienated

Ishida’s blend of surrealist satire and social realism explores the mechanophilia at the heart of modern alienation.

Frieze 2023

An Atlas of Invisible Images

As computer vision and AI increasingly influence everyday life, a cohort of artists reveals the hidden images that secretly govern these systems.

Social Research 2023

Interview with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

“A careful analysis of extreme acoustic experiences teaches us how listening can operate more generally as a collective tool for political action.”

The Brooklyn Rail 2023

A Tribute to Peter Schjeldahl

Schjeldahl was not a peddler of a particular theory; his only agenda was pleasure — the pleasures of art, of looking, of language.

Frieze 2022

The Gods of Gala Porras-Kim

The artist’s probing installations reframe the seemingly intractable tensions between curating, colonialism and cultural exchange.

The Nation 2022

Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything

The idiosyncratic director paints a picture of the world that is so dense and theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.

Dissent 2021

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