roopa vasudevan > media artist & scholar
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.
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 âLeft and Rightâ. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E-9 â 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, Editorâs 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.
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/.
Vasudevan, R. (2027, in press). âCooperationâ. 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). âData Fluenciesâ. In Favaretto, L. (Ed.), Prospective Lexicon. Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA).
Vasudevan, R. (2026, in press). âAgainst atomization: Towards abundance in artmakingâ. Fortunately (Boston Ujima Project). Issue 1.
Vasudevan, R. (September 2023). âPassive acceptance and our (dis)consentâ. The Brooklyn Rail. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/criticspage/Passive-Acceptance-and-Our-DisConsent.
Vasudevan, R. (July 2022). âTowards a reflexive technocultureâ. In Moriwaki, K. & Xin, X. (Eds.), Critical Coding Cookbook. https://criticalcode.recipes/contributions/towards-a-reflexive-technoculture.
Vasudevan, R. (May 2022). âMeditations on mediationâ. In Haas, T.B. (Ed.), HARD MEDIUM SOFTWARE [exhibition catalog]. Published by editor.
Vasudevan, R. (March 2022). âSolidarity, Reciprocity, Distribution.â Just Tech. Social Science Research Council. DOI: 10.35650/JT.3027.d.2022
Vasudevan, R. (October 2020). âPurpose(ful)(less) dataâ. 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.