"Revelations" - published in Interalia Magazine (May 2022 issue). An update of the essay written for the catalog of my retrospective at Exhibition Hall Manes in 1999 in Prague, with good pictures of drawings.
"Circumstantial Evidence" - published in Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America (Alan Sondheim, editor; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1977, pages 122-135). Republished in The Museum of Rhythm (Natasha Ginwala and Daniel Muzyczuk, editors; Sternberg Press and Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, 2018, page 208).
"Six Drawings" - published in The Paris Review, issue 73 (spring-summer 1978), pages 160-169.
"Notes on Studying Art at Yale" - when the Yale Art Gallery bought 3 of my drawings, they asked me to write a short memoir about studying and teaching at Yale. This is what I sent them.
Some other published articles about art
"Chris Burden" - published in Artforum, Volume XIV, No. 9 (May 1976), pages 24-31. This was one of the first major articles about Burden published in an art magazine.
"Art Into Space" - Whole Earth Review 48 (fall 1985), pages 26-31. An earlier version was published as "For the Reasons of Poetry: Arting in Space" in Art Papers (May/June 1985).
"I Think We Can Make Some Trouble There: Seth Siegelaub Interview with Robert Horvitz and Thomas Levin (1987)," pages 191-197 in Seth Siegelaub: Better Read Than Dead - Writings and Interviews 1964-2013, edited by Marja Bloem, Koenig Books/Serpentine Gallery, 2020. An earlier version was published in the catalog for "Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art," an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (12 December 2015 - 16 April 2016).
"A Talk with George Kubler" - originally published in Artforum magazine, Volume XII, No. 2 (October, 1973), page 32-34. Reprinted in Studies in Ancient American and European Art: The Collected Essays of George Kubler, edited by Thomas F. Reese, Yale University Press, 1985.
"Henry Flynt Interview (16 March 1979)" - I met Henry in the mid-1970s and began visiting him regularly at his apartment in New York just to talk. As he became more relaxed and forthcoming, I asked if I could record some of our conversations. He agreed and this is nearly all of our first recording. However, with no plan to publish, I put the cassette aside and soon forgot about it. I recently rediscovered it while looking for something else and as it provides an extremely revealing and concise overview of Henry's thinking about his life and work, I transcribed it. I sent Henry a copy and he had no objection to its being published -- indeed it is probably his best interview -- but we have not yet found a print venue for it. Please contact me if you are interested in publishing it.
"Art or Telecommunication" - published in New Observations 17 (pages 24-26), edited by Peter Halley in connection with the exhibition "Science Fiction" at the John Weber Gallery in New York City, 17 September - 8 October 1983. Originally written for - and presented at - a conference on "Art and Telecommunication" at the NY School of Visual Arts on 10 March 1983.
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"Rejecting the Nature/Culture Dichotomy" - published by the Museum for Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal) as part of their exhibition "Visual Natures: The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries." Subtitle: "An interview with the writer, artist and editor, Robert Horvitz, speaking about his early years as a writer for Artforum and his friendship with Alan Sonfist, his disagreement with Jack Burnham about separating nature from culture, and his fourteen years (1977–1991) as arts editor for Whole Earth magazines."
"Whole Earth Culture" (2002) - this was written for a Czech conference on "integral culture." It explains the motivations and impact of the Whole Earth Catalogs for people not familiar with these publications, with a brief description of my role in the magazines they spawned. Click here for a list of articles, reviews and portfolios that I wrote or edited for CoEvolution Quarterly and the Whole Earth Review.
"Media Licensing, Convergence and Globalization" - written for "Re:Activism - Redrawing the Boundaries of Media Activism," a conference at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) 14-15 October 2005. A history of media licensing - uses and abuses.
"Balkan Media Network: Final Report" (January 1996). The ZaMir network connected the warring republics of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1996 with email service. ("ZaMir" means "for peace" in Serbo-Croatian.) During the long siege of Sarajevo, ZaMir was that city's only ongoing link to the outside world. Humanitarian aid agencies like the UN and the Red Cross used it, along with hundreds of journalists and NGOs and thousands of ordinary people. This was my final report to the sponsors, who knew ZaMir as the Balkan Media Network.
