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As a writer, strategist, and Head of Digital Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I am most interested in the intersections between art, visual culture, and the Internet. I launched my first art blog, Forward Retreat, in 2001, and have contributed writing on art and technology to print and online publications including Frieze, Triple Canopy, Rhizome, Art in America, Print, Flash Art, Art Papers, Camerawork and SFist; my recent favorites are linked below. Otherwise, I read printed matter, ride my bicycle, and deliberately disengage from technology whenever possible as a means of preserving my mind from the hive. I live in Brooklyn, New York.
Networks:
+ Linkedin
+ Twitter
+ Google+
+ The Internet at Large
Say hello:
Hromack [at] gmail [dot] com
Recently:
+ “An Acceptable Approximation”: Essay on Internet culture and social behavior published in “Never Odd Or Even,” a mini-exhibition in book form featuring contributions by Alejandro Cesarco, Angie Keefer, Christoph Keller, Adam Kleinman, E.R. Langen, and Jorge Méndez Blake. Designed by Project Projects and published by the Goethe Institut as part of the exhibition We would provide complete darkness, curated by Alfons Hug and Sarah Demeuse. (Goethe Institut, December 2011)
+ A Thing Remade: A Conversation with Paul Chan: An interview with Paul Chan about his relationship to his website, National Philistine, the Internet at large, and the ghost of Saddam Hussein. (Rhizome, August 2011)
+ Whitney Stories: Developed, implemented, and currently edit a quarterly online magazine designed to engage with the Whitney Museum’s multiple histories and narratives. (Launched: July 2011)
+ Artists’ eBooks Unbound: An Interview with James Bridle: An interview with London-based publisher and digital futurist James Bridle. (Rhizome, June 2011)
+ Off the Page: A piece on artist Paul Chan’s publishing venture, Badlands Unlimited, and the relationship between physical and virtual methods of book production. (Frieze, May 2011)
+ E-Books and the Museum Machine: A session report on the “e-Books and Museum Publishing” session at the 2011 Museums and the Web conference in Philadelphia, PA. (Triple Canopy, May 2011)
+ Collective Collaborations: An introduction to the work of eponymous Lower East Side art collective and political force, Group Material. The February 2011 issue was art directed by design firm Project Projects. (Print, January 2011; in print only, sadly. But good!)
+ I Was Here: A meditation on the use of in-gallery reception books in the digital age. (Paper Monument Number 3, March 2010)
+ In Print We Trust: The blog-to-book deal, (re)considered. (Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2009)
+ Welcome to the Book Club A follow up to the piece above. (Brooklyn Rail, October 2009)
Note Bene:
The thoughts expressed on this Website are solely my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of employers or associates, past or present. Original writing published here is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
