roopa vasudevan > media artist & scholar

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Books & Book Chapters

Vasudevan, R. (2027, under contract). High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Adams, P.R., Vasudevan, R., Russell, G., Gray, K., Chun, W.H.K. & Mcpherson, T. (2026, in press). Data Fluencies. Leuphana/Minneapolis, MN: Meson Press/University of Minnesota Press.

Burton, A.G., Chun, W.H.K. and Bounegru, L., Devries, M., Harris, A., Holtzclaw, H., Jucan, I., Juhasz, A., Kamish, D.W., Langlois, G., Proctor, J., Tomlinson, C., Vasudevan, R. & Weltevrede, E. (2023). Algorithmic Authenticity: An Overview. Leuphana: Meson Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

Vasudevan, R. (2026, accepted and under review for special issue). Slow Response I: Drawings [article + online gallery]. Feminist Media Histories.

Jucan, I.B., Vasudevan, R., Burton, A.B., Wu, T., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Performing “Left and Right”. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E-9 — E-14 [web-only content]. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/807846.

Vasudevan, R. (2021). Share and share unlike: Reciprocity, corporate power and the open source ethos. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211038350.

Vasudevan, R. (2021). Proclamations and paraphernalia: #Bellwether, Editor‘s Notes and the art of remixing the political document. Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus, 17(1), 149-168. DOI: 10.21900/j.median.v17i1.484.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Vasudevan, R. (2024). Cultivation, not coercion (or, three movements on maintenance). Adjacent: The ITP-IMA Journal of Emerging Media. Issue 11. https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-11/cultivation-not-coercion-or-three-movements-on-maintenance/.

Choi, J.H. & Vasudevan, R. (2022). Seeing like a state (of surveillance). ACM Interactions, March/April 2022, 26-28. DOI: 10.1145/351169.

Vasudevan, R. (2018). Memes, merch and the media in the 2016 election. Adjacent: The ITP-IMA Journal of Emerging Media. Issue 3. https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-3/memes-merch-and-the-media-in-the-2016-election-2/.

Op-Eds, Art Writing & Public Scholarship

Vasudevan, R. (2027, in press). “Cooperation”. In Segal, E., Hoff, C., & Cho, J. (Ed.), An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping Vol. 2. Washington DC: Thick Press.

Vasudevan, R., Russell, G. & Chun, W.H.K. (2026, in press). “Data Fluencies”. In Favaretto, L. (Ed.), Prospective Lexicon. Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA).

Vasudevan, R. (2026, in press). “Against atomization: Towards abundance in artmaking”. Fortunately (Boston Ujima Project). Issue 1.

Vasudevan, R. (September 2023). “Passive acceptance and our (dis)consent”. The Brooklyn Rail. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/criticspage/Passive-Acceptance-and-Our-DisConsent.

Vasudevan, R. (July 2022). “Towards a reflexive technoculture”. In Moriwaki, K. & Xin, X. (Eds.), Critical Coding Cookbook. https://criticalcode.recipes/contributions/towards-a-reflexive-technoculture.

Vasudevan, R. (May 2022). “Meditations on mediation”. In Haas, T.B. (Ed.), HARD MEDIUM SOFTWARE [exhibition catalog]. Published by editor.

Vasudevan, R. (March 2022). “Solidarity, Reciprocity, Distribution.” Just Tech. Social Science Research Council. DOI: 10.35650/JT.3027.d.2022

Vasudevan, R. (October 2020). “Purpose(ful)(less) data”. Originally written for Dark Green of Neither Earth Nor Sky, a project by Lucy Kerr and Karlis Bergs. Shown as part of Time is Out of Joint, the 2020 CalArts MFA thesis exhibition. MAK Center, Los Angeles.