Selected Press: Interviews/Biographical/Critical Profiles:
(See below for Artworks and Documentation featured in publication)
2011
- Chicago Tribune features Visions for Chicago in Lori Waxman’s Best of Art 2011 [Chicago, IL]
- BenPR podcast interview about the last decade of my projects from 2001-2011 [online]
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Interview with Robby Herbst and Ryan Griffis about Art and Mapping in Bad At Sports [online]
- Interviewed on Earth Eats on Indiana Public Media [Bloomington, IN]
- Interviewed on In My Backyard by Lisa Bralts-Kelly for WILL AM Radio [Urbana, IL]
- Organizing Upgrade interview about Visions for Chicago [Online and Reprinted in Proximity Magazine]
- Environmental Journalism Magazine interview about making of Farm Together Now [Lansing, MI]
- Chicago Reader on Visions for Chicago [Chicago, IL]
- Timeout Chicago article about Visions for Chicago project [Chicago, IL]
- Art21 Interview about Visions for Chicago project [Online]
- Grist – Michael Pollan picks Farm Together Now as best food book of 2010 [Online]
- Beyond the Plate – Farm Together Now book review [Online]
- Treehugger – Farm Together Now book review [Online]
- Farmbrarian – Farm Together Now book review [Online]
- Real Food for All – Farm Together Now book review [Online]
2010
- Interview about AREA Chicago in catalog for TRANSDUCTORES: Pedagocias Colectivas y Politcas Espaciales. You can view the pdf of the entire book here. [Spain]
- The Morning News - Interview on AREA and Farm Together Now [Online]
- Chicago Reader - “AREA man leaves AREA” profile [Chicago]
- Time Out Chicago - Critics Pick: Chicago Coffee Confederation [Chicago]
2009
- Pop Up City #2 – Article by Jennifer Malloy (Kent State University Institute for Shrinking Cities) [Cleveland, OH]
- SF Camerawork - Chicago Keeps it Simple
- Chicago Reader - “Dark Roast with a Whiff of Anarchy”
- Medill News Service - Article about Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago
2008
- Timeout Chicago – Interview about AREA Chicago
- Bootprint Vol2/Issue 1 – Interview with Nato Thompson about “Town Hall Meetings”
- Newcity Chicago - Profile of “Energy Plans” with Futurefarmers
- Make/Shift Magazine Issue 3 – Review of “Trashing the Neoliberal City” by Yasmin Nair
- Proximity Magazine “Death To Law: Progressive Public Art in Chicago” by Bert Stabler
- Syracuse Post Standard “A different view of the world” about An Atlas exhibition
- Syracuse City Eagle on Notes for a People’s Atlas of Syracuse and Radical Cartography panel discussion [Syracuse, NY]
2007
- Interviews about “People’s Atlas” during Urban Festival in Zagreb Croatia in Croatian publications: Vecernji list (1) and (2); Radio 101; more…
- Chicago Reader “Get off the assembly line” review of Pedagogical Factory by Bert Stabler
- F-News “Inside AREA Chicago” by Eileen Jeng
- Punk Planet “Off with their heads” by Dara Greenwald (essay featuring StreetRec graphics)
2006
- Chicago Reader “Chicago Media 101″ by Martha Bayne
- Chicago Reader “Mapping Cultural Participation in Chicago” by Deanna Isaacs
- In These Times “Of Crafts and Causes” by Phoebe Connelly
2005
- Chicago Reader “Fighting Spin With Spin” by Martha Bayne 6-10
2004
- F news Magazine “Students and Responsibility”, March Issue [link]
- Berkshire Eagle “Art Inspired by social issues to fill galleries” By Charles Bonenti 5-28
- North Adams Transcript “‘The Interventionists’ subvert the paradigm at MoCA” By John E. Mitchell
- In these times “Tacitly Tactical” by Kathryn Rosenfeld May 25, 2004
- Rhizome.org “Review of Version>04:invisibleNetworks” by Rebecca Zorach June
- New York Times ” Hometown of Utopia and Dissent” By Holland Cotter 7-23
- SZ Munchner Kultur “Frisch ans Werk!” By Ruth Schneeberger August 21
- Munchner Merkur “Gut gemeintes Sammelsurium” By Simone Dattenberger August 27
- Bauwelt “SpaceMakers” By Florian Seidel
2003
- In these times November 2003, “This is not essay on political art” by Kathryn Rosenfeld 10-13-03
Artworks and Documentation Reproduced in Publications
2011
- Documentation of “How We Learn” event series featured in Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons Edited by Therese M. Quinn, John Ploof, Lisa J. Hochtritt (Routledge)
- Documentation of CHAos and AREA featured in Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture by Gregory Sholette (Pluto Press)
2010
- Art News Remaking the Map by Carly Berwick October 2010 (print edition only) (Featuring Notes for a People’s Atlas by AREA)
- Idiom on Experimental Geography
- TRANSDUCTORES: Pedagocias Colectivas y Politcas Espaciales catalog (featuring Notes for a People’s Atlas and AREA documentation). See pdf of the entire book here. [Spain]
2009
- LA Times book review of Experimental Geography (featuring We Are Here maps archive and People’s Atlas)
- Timeout Chicago on Experimental Geography
2008
- Experimental Geography edited by Nato Thompson for Melville House Books. (Featuring my “We Are Here” Maps Archive)
2007
- Punk Planet “Off with their heads” by Dara Greenwald (essay featuring StreetRec graphics)
2005
- In the Weather Woodlawn Walking Tour (featured map project with Ryan Hollon)
- Teme Celeste ”Spectacular Tactics” Article by Nato Thompson (Photo)
2004
- Art New England (Cover Photo/Book Review featuring GBGC)
- The Interventionists by Nato Thompson/Gregory Sholette MIT Press (Featuring Photos/Project Profiles of GBGC and StreetRec’s Retooling Dissent)
- Art Forum (September 04) “Tactics inside and out” by Greg Bordowitz (Photo of GBGC wall at Mass MoCA)
- Stencil Pirates By Josh Macphee, Soft Skull Press (featuring my photos of stencils)
- Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #3 (Featured Project Insert of my ”Group Process Survey”)
- Peace Signs: the anti-war movement illustrated (“Got Oil?” poster reproduction)
- Tactical Sound issue #1 Loudspeakers (Streetspeaker reproduction)
2003
- Faesthetic #2 (Featured Project insert with Give Graffiti The Thumbs Up pamphlet)
- HalfEmpty Issue#2 (Featured Project Insert with Give Graffiti The Thumbs Up pamphlet)
- Washington Post ”Pink Bloque: Radical Cute” By Jonathan Padget (featuring my photo documentation of the dance troupe)
