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Again: Selected Interviews and Essays
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Selected Interviews
Interview with Hudson, founder of Feature Inc., Blair, Dike, Again: Selected Interviews and Essays, Chicago: WhiteWalls, 2007

Grappling with the Context (interview with ArtForum editor Tim Griffin), Purple Fashion #2, Fall/Winter 04/05, pp. 220-25

The Whole Ball of Non-Zero-Sumness (interview with Robert Wright), Purple #15, Spring/Summer 03, pp. 112-115

An Attractive Repulsion: Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex, Purple #12, Summer 02, pp. 154-57

Michael Smith's Bland Ambition (interview), Purple #8, Summer 01, pp. 94-95

"The Cell's Mates" (interview with production designers from the film), Time Out NY, Sept. 14-21, 2000, p.107

Auto-Emotive Design (J. Mays, Head of Ford Motor Company Design), ArtByte, Vol. 2-#1, April-May 1999, pp. 30-35

The Rockwell Group: virtual, cinematic, immersive rooms (interview with David Rockwell), Flash Art #206, May-June1999, pp. 74-77

Bondi Blue , (essay followed by interview with Jonathan Ive, the designer of the iMac computer), Purple #2, Winter 98/99, pp. 268-275

Sound and Image, Self and Place (interview with Doug Aitken), Purple Prose #13, Winter 1998, section 26

Otherworldly (interview with John McCracken), Purple Prose #13, Winter 1998, section 11

Fast on His Feet (with Elein Fleiss, interview of Nike designer Gordon Thompson), Purple Prose #12, Summer 1997, pp. 114-124

It's Always The Same (interview with novelist Jack Womack), Purple Prose #10, Winter 1996, pp. 74-80

We've Got Twenty-Five Years, (interview with artist Mariko Mori), Purple Prose #9, Summer 1995, pp.96-101

The Thing Connection (interview with Wolfgang Staehle, artist and founder of the BBS, The Thing), Purple Prose #9, Summer 1995, pp.133-35

James O'Barr--Shadows on the Wall, (interview with comic book artist, creator of The Crow), Purple Prose #7, Autumn 1994, pp. 58-63

Retiring The Human Race: Robotics scientist Hans Moravec, (interview), Purple Prose #4, Autumn 1993, pp. 34-39
Selected Articles
Dan Colen, Purple Fashion #9, Spring/Summer 08, pp. 352-53

Cameron Martin, Bomb #101, Fall 2007, pp. 14

Akari floor lamp (Model UF3-S), The Purple Journal, #6, Summer 06, pp. 107

A Reflection or Two (on Richard Prince), Parkett #72, 2004, pp. 96-107

Openings: Claude Closky, ArtForum, Nov, 2003, pp.180-81

Steve DiBenedetto, Bomb #83, Spring 2003, pp. 12-15

Nature and Nurture (review of Mark Ridley's book, Nature via Nurture), Purple #16, Fall/Winter 03/04, p.66

The Tree, Purple #9, Fall 01, pp. 118-19

New Jersey and The Boss Belt, Purple #7, Spring 01, pp. 120-21

Flip-Flopping Fictions and the Interface of Some Spaces, Art Press , Special edition, #21, 2000, pp. 144-48

Corporate Collage: The Minneapolis Skyway, Made in USA #2, Spring/Summer 00, pp. 104-05

Strange Haze: Drugs, Artists and Art, Purple #4, Winter 99/00, pp. 248-259

WWW.Claude Closky, ArtByte, Vol. 2-#4, Nov.-Dec.1999, pp. 70-71

Looking for a Modern Modern: Three stores, three chairs, ArtByte, Vol. 2-#2, Summer 1999, pp. 88?93

On Aliens, Abstraction and 2kism, Purple Prose #13, Winter 1998, section 18

Entertainment and Eatertainment (on entertainment/retail design), Flash Art #193, March-April 1997, pp. 90-94

Meanderings on the Age of Blur, Purple Prose #11, Summer 1996

Artist's Dream Machines, (the films of Longo, Salle and Clark), Flash Art #187, April 1996, pp. 78-82

CD-rom Persuasion: The Computer Entertainment Myst, Flash Art #182, June 1995, pp. 73-75