Contributors

Trevor Paglen is an artist and the author of books on experimental geography and state secrecy.  

Francesco Paladino is an Italian filmmaker who, in 2005, created a series of films to accompany each track on Aaron Moore’s debut solo album, The Accidental. The accidental collision of images and improvised sound in Accidental #2 is a reformation of Paladino’s films as visual accompaniment to Moore’s performance. Website

Karthik Pandian is an artist who works in exhibitions and public interventions to unsettle the ground of history. He uses moving image, sculpture, and performance to render the mythologies of the present through forgotten, fragmentary, and futuristic pasts. Pandian has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), Bétonsalon (Paris), and Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis). His work has been featured in numerous survey exhibitions, including the first edition of “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); “La Triennale: Intense Proximity” at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris); and “Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society, 1915–2015,” at Whitechapel Gallery (London). He is currently working on a series of temporary public artworks in Boston and Minneapolis, which can be followed on Twitter via @videocommune. Pandian teaches in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Website

Maxwell Paparella lives in Brooklyn, NY. He has given readings and presentations at Microscope Gallery, Global Committee, and Group Huddle, among other venues. His forthcoming YouTube mini-series is called Chef Tastes the Broth.  

Ashwin Parameswaran writes about resilience in economics, ecology, technology, and other complex systems.  

Christian Parenti is a professor of sustainable development at the School for International Training, Graduate Institute. He is a contributing editor to the Nation and the author of four books, most recently Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011). Website

Brittany Paris is a former editorial and production assistant at Triple Canopy. She is a Media Studies graduate student at The New School. Website

Ed Park is a founding editor of the Believer. He publishes the New-York Ghost, writes a monthly science-fiction column for the Los Angeles Times called Astral Weeks, and blogs at The Dizzies. His first novel, Personal Days, was published by Random House. He lives in New York City. Website

Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books 2017) and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015). Her third collection of poems, Magical Negro, will be published by Tin House in 2019, and her debut book of nonfiction will be published later that year by One World, an imprint of Random House. Parker's poetry and essays have been published and anthologized in numerous publications, including the Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, the New York Times, and the Nation. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel in New York. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She is a Sagittarius and lives in Los Angeles.  

Graham Parker is an artist and the author of Fair Use (notes from spam). Website

Frank Pasquale is a professor of law at the University of Maryland, a member of the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, and an affiliate fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. He frequently writes about the ethical, legal, and social implications of information technology, and speaks to attorneys, physicians, and other health professionals about these subjects. His book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information, develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance, and will be published by Harvard University Press in 2015.  

Matteo Pasquinelli is a philosopher. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the anthologies The Algorithms of Capital (2014) and Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and its Traumas (forthcoming for Meson Press). In 2012 he wrote, with Wietske Maas, "The Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism." He frequently teaches and lectures about the intersection of political philosophy and media theory at universities and art institutions. Website

Pastelegram  

Rebecca Patek is a New York-based choreographer and performance artist who creates work that synthesizes dance, theater, and comedy. In New York, Patek’s work has been presented at Abrons Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance New Amsterdam, the Joyce Soho, and Dixon Place. She has recently received commissions from the Museum of Arts and Design, the Chocolate Factory Theater, and Festival TBD: Emergency Glitter. Website

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Andrew Patrizio is an art historian at Edinburgh College of Art. Website

Kris Paulsen is an art historian and media theorist and the author of Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (MIT Press, 2017). She’s an assistant professor of history of art and film studies at the Ohio State University. Her research and writing address the intersections of art and technology from the 1960s to the present.  

The Illustrious Pearl is a queer poet and drag performer. Their work has been published in POETRY, the Margins, WUSSY, and elsewhere. They have received honors from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, the Asian American Writers Workshop, and MacDowell. As a standing member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, they have performed at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, and New York Live Arts. Wo was born in Macau, China, and currently lives in New York. Website

Prudence Peiffer is a lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She specializes in modern and contemporary American art, with a particular emphasis on abstraction and artists’ writings. Her current book project explores the multifaceted oeuvre of Ad Reinhardt. Website

Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist known for his multidisciplinary practice, which moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video, and performance. His work centers on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present and, in his words, “a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.”  

Javier Peres  

Ariana Perez-Castells is Triple Canopy’s development and programs manager. She previously worked at the Instituto Cervantes of New York.  

Ara Peterson Website

Ben Phelps-Rohrs recently completed an internship at National Public Radio’s Day to Day and now lives in Pittsburgh. He plans to travel to Siberia this winter to visit the third-largest ice city on the planet. Website

Alyssa Pheobus is an artist living and working between Lahore, Pakistan, and New York City. Website

Dan Phiffer is a programmer and artist interested in hackable, inexpensive computer networks.  

Ethan Philbrick is a composer, cellist, and writer based in Brooklyn. He holds a Phd in performance studies from New York University and has presented work in New York at Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, the Grey Art Gallery, the Kitchen, MoMA PS1, NYU Skirball, and SculptureCenter. His writing has been published in TDR, PAJ, Women and Performance, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Movement Research Performance Journal. He is currently a visiting assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Muhlenberg College. Recent projects include a choral setting of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party and a series of participatory pieces for solo cello and audience members that engage with the legacy of cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman.  

M. NourbeSe Philip was born in Tobago and lives in Toronto. She is the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988), which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008), a polyvocal, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Philip has also published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988) and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992), Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993), CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996), and Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and MacDowell Colony, and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council.  

Ann Pibal is a painter whose works were recently exhibited at Meulensteen in New York and the DeCordova Biennial and are held in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Website

Piehole  

Penny Pilkington  

Mary Ping studied art at Vassar College. In 2017, Ping received the National Design Award for fashion. Her performance-installation Metamorphosis, which examines the evolution of the handbag as both utilitarian object and luxury-status symbol, was included in “Items: Is Fashion Modern?,” the Museum of Modern Art’s first exhibition devoted to fashion. It was originally presented in “Joining Forces with the Unknown (Faisons de l’inconnu un allié)” at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Currently, Ping finished the costume designs for the Liz Magic Laser’s performance piece, ‘Poignée’, debuting this summer at Centre Pompidou, among other projects. Ping’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum at FIT, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and the Deste Foundation, Athens.  

Leah Pires is a writer and curator living in New York, where she is a PhD candidate in the department of art history at Columbia University and a 2014–15 Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program.  

David Platzker is the founder of Specific Object, “a personal venture to aggregate interesting objects in any artistic medium,” and a former director of Printed Matter, Inc. He is the curator the upcoming exhibitions “Specific Object Presents Lawrence Weiner's Printed Work from The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive,” and “Robert Barry, Closed Gallery Redux––During the exhibition the gallery will be closed,” both of which are collaborations with Susan Inglett Gallery and will open this summer.  

Jumatatu Poe is a dance artist from Philadelphia, PA. He currently works with Merián Soto, Leah Stein, Jesse Zaritt, and co-directs idiosynCrazy productions. In 2012 he received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.  

The Poetic Research Bureau is a nonprofit bookstore, reading space, and publishing collective in Los Angeles. Website

PolYPeN was founded in 2007 by Sabeth Buchmann, Helmut Draxler, Clemens Krümmel, and Susanne Leeb and is published by Berlin’s bbooks. Past publications include Tom Holert, Regieren im Bildraum; Félix Guattari, Die Couch des Armen: Die Kinotexte in der Diskussion, edited by Aljoscha Wescott and Nicolas Siepen; Jacques Rancière, Die Aufteilung des Sinnlichen; and Helmut Daxler, Gefährliche Substanzen: Kunst und Kritik. Website

Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at New York University. Her two most recent books, A History of the Modern Fact and Genres of the Credit Economy, examine the emergence of the modern disciplines. Her current work focuses on financial crises, both past and present.  

William Pope.L currently lives and works in Chicago, IL, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual arts at the University of Chicago. His work has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York and the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Recent exhibitions and performances include Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Grey Art Gallery, New York; Cage Unrequited, in conjunction with Performa, NY; Flux This! With Pope.L and Special Guests at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; and Ruffneck Constructivists at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.  

Natalia Porter  

Theodore Porter is a Los Angeles-based writer, researcher, and historian of science. He is the Distinguished Professor of History and the Peter Reill Chair in European History at UCLA. He is also the author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986), Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995), and Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (2004).  

Matthew Porter is an artist whose work has recently appeared in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. A monograph of his work will be published in 2014 by MACK. Website

Cary Potter is a graphic designer based in New York. Website

Kayvon Pourazar is of Persian origin and spent his formative years in Iran, Turkey, and England. In 1995, he immigrated to the US. He graduated with a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase in 2000 and has resided in New York City ever since. He has performed in the works of Heather Kravas, Juliana May, Juliette Mapp, Yasuko Yokoshi, Donna Uchizono, Gwen Welliver, Beth Gill, RoseAnne Spradlin, K. J. Holmes, John Jasperse, Levi Gonzalez, Doug Varone, Wil Swanson, Gabriel Masson, Jennifer Monson, and Jodi Melnick, as well as in the Metropolitan Opera productions of Les Troyens and Le Sacre du printemps. Pourazar’s rare ventures into making work have been shown in New York City at the Kitchen, PS 122, Cunningham Studios, Roulette, Center for Performance Research, Catch, AUNTS, and Dixon Place, as well as at the University of Nebraska, the University of Vermont and Sacramento State. In 2010, he received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Performance. He has served as adjunct faculty at Bennington College and currently teaches at the New School. He also teaches regularly for Movement Research and has taught as guest artist for Tsekh Russia (Moscow) and Workshop Foundation (Budapest).  

Samantha Power is author of A Problem from Hell and Chasing the Flame. Website

John Powers was born in Chicago and now lives in Brooklyn. His artwork has been shown at MoMA PS1, Exit Art, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Swiss Institute, CUE Art Foundation, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Website

Julia Powers is a translator based in New York and New Haven and a PhD student in comparative literature at Yale University. She is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Translation Prize. Website

Ervin Prašljivić is an activist, architect, photographer, and videographer who lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He holds a master’s degree in urban studies, and received the Sixth of April Award for best architectural proposal in Sarajevo. He also co-organizes lectures and interactive installations about urban phenomena. Website

Yasmina Price is a writer, researcher, and programmer. She focuses on anticolonial cinema from the Global South and visual artists across the African continent and diaspora, with a particular interest in the experimental work of women filmmakers. She has interviewed filmmakers, spoken about Black film and revolutionary cultural production, and programmed screenings for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Maysles Documentary Center, International Documentary Association, New York Film Festival, and more. Her writing has been published in Film Quarterly, Artforum, MUBI Notebook, Vulture, Hyperallergic, Aperture, and Art in America. She is a PhD student at Yale University. Website

Alexander Provan is the editor of Triple Canopy and a contributing editor of Bidoun. He is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and was a 2013–15 fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. His writing has appeared in the Nation, n+1, Art in America, Artforum, Frieze, and in several exhibition catalogues. His work has been presented at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, Museum Tinguely (Basel), 12th Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), New Museum (New York), Kunsthall Oslo, and Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), among other venues. Measuring Device with Organs was recently published by Triple Canopy as an LP. Website

Psychobuildings is a Brooklyn-based band comprised of Peter LaBier, Peter Schuette, Juan Pieczanski and Emily Panic. The group released its first two 7" singles in 2010, on All Hands Electric and Transparent. Website

Public Fiction is a nomadic curatorial project and a journal based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2010 by Lauren Mackler, Public Fiction features a rotating cast of collaborators and presents thematic exhibitions that include talks, screenings, and performances, and culminate in the publication of issues of the journal. Public Fiction’s program is intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and treats the exhibition as a medium. Public Fiction has staged exhibitions and publications at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Church of the Holy Shroud as part of Artissima (Turin); Berkeley Museum of Art; Frieze Projects New York; the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House (Los Angeles). Mackler is the co-curator of the 2020 edition of “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum. Website

Purple Haze is Marcia Bassett (Zaimph, Double Leopards, Hototogisu) and Taylor Richardson (Prehistoric Blackout, Fluid Human). A house band for bad trips and temporary psychosis. Website