Selected Press

2018

• Omar Kholeif, The Artists Who Will Change the World
• Valerie Amend, "The Internet Is Not a Possibility: An Interview with Zach Blas," OnCurating
• Omar Kholeif, Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age
• Ana Teixeira Pinto, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," Mousse Magazine, Number 63
• Patricia de Vries, "Zach Blas – The Objectivist Drug Party Heather Dewey-Hagborg – Genomic Intimacy," MU
• Tausif Noor, "Critics' Picks: Zach Blas," Artforum
• Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich, and Martha Schwendener, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," The New York Times
• Jasmina Tumbas, "The Ectoplasmic Resistance of Queer: Metric Mysticism, Libidinal Art, and How to Think Beyond The Internet," ASAP Journal
• Claudia D'Alonzo, "Contra-Internet' e la fine della rete secondo Zach Blas," Motherboard Italia
• Iván Zgaib, "Escape from the Internet Swamp," The Brooklyn Rail
• Benjamin Busch, "Zach Blas on the Concept of Contra-Internet," Berlin Art Link
• Vaginal Davis, Daniel Henrickson, Susanne Sachsse, and Marc Siegel, "CHEAP Internet," Cheap Funk, Number 17
• "Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak," e-flux podcast
• Margaret Carrigan, "At Art in General, a Video Work Foreshadows How the Internet Will Destroy Us," Observer
• Elizabeth Fullerton, "Zach Blas at Gasworks," Art in America

2017

• "Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Around the World," Hyperallergic
• Sukanya Deb, "A Californian Ideology: Zach Blas talks exorcising Silicon Valley’s tech determinist demons with the queer mysticism of Contra-Internet in London," AQNB
• Łukasz Zaremba, "Digital Darkness," View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, Number 16
• Zachary Small, "The Queer Deep Web of Zach Blas," Hyperallergic
• Pedro Marum, "We hide our faces so that we can be seen," DUST, Issue 12, Transparency
• Paul Clinton, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," ArtReview
• Colin Perry, "Zach Blas: Contra-Internet," Art Monthly, Number 411, November
• Hettie Judah, "Liberation day: the artists fighting the power of the market – and the internet," The Guardian
• "Zach Blas," Ràdio Web MACBA
• Katrina Sluis, "Artist Profile: Zach Blas," Rhizome

2016

• Dodie Bellamy, "What Can't Be Seen," Frieze, Issue 184, January-February
• "Cyber invisibles," Tracks ARTE
• Liz Pelly, "How an Art Exhibit on Surveillance Says Too Little by Showing Too Much," The Intercept
• Ajay Hothi, "Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)," Art in America
• Holland Cotter, "Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World," The New York Times
• Eva Respini, "Why Can’t Women Time Travel?' A Dictionary for Ordinary Pictures in the Age of the Internet," Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center
• "Razstavi Črni Kabinet V Galeriji Škuc," RTV4
• Julianne Tveten, "Code is Political," Motherboard
• Amy Ashenden, "Electronic Superhighway: Exploring what technology has done for art," Evening Standard
• Erika Balsom, "On the Grid, Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet," Whitechapel Gallery
• Melissa Ray, "Zach Blas on why we need to stand together," POSTmatter

2015

• Patrick Jagoda, "Network Ambivalence," Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, Volume 4 Download PDF
• Michael Connor, "Contra-Internet GIFs," Rhizome
• Omar Kholeif, "Has the Internet Become a Human or a Thing, or Have We Become the Internet?," Mousse Magazine, Number 47 Download PDF
• Olga Drenda, "Nieprzejrzystość dla każdego: Rozmowa z Zachem Blasem," Dwutygodnik, Number 151
• Tosten Burks, "An Artist’s Pioneering Masks Shield Us from Future Surveillance," GOOD Magazine

2014

• Claudia Arozqueta, "Teoría del color: Critics' Picks," Artforum
• Lynn Berger, "Kunstenaar Zach Blas laat zien dat surveillance meer op het spel zet dan alleen onze privacy," de Correspondent
• Müge Büyüktalaş, "Karşıt-cinsel post-internet ve tekno-gerilla," Art Unlimited, Number 28
• Nicole O’Rourke, "The Moving Museum Profiles: Rafaël Rozendaal and Zach Blas," The Guide Istanbul
• "In the fight to preserve privacy, anti-drone burqas could become the new normal," Fusion Live
• Polina Todorova, "How to escape from surveillance: 8 strategies by artists and designers," Apparat
• "Zach Blas: Meet the Artist," The Moving Museum Istanbul
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• Kyle Chayka, "Fight surveillance by making it visible," Al Jazeera America
• Ben Valentine, "Weaponizing Our Faces: An Interview with Zach Blas," Vice
• Dan Weiskopf, "Picturing the Self in the Age Of Data," Art Papers, July / August
• Marie Lechner, "Le nouvel âge du camouflage," Libération
• Magda Szcześniak, "Blending in and Standing Out – Camouflage and Masking as Queer Tactics of Negotiating Visibility," View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture
• Kyle Chayka, "Biometric Surveillance Means Someone Is Always Watching," Newsweek
• Robinson Meyer, "This Is What a Facial-Detection Algorithm Looks Like in 3D," The Atlantic
• Emily K. Holmes, "Locating Technology: Against Recognition," Art Practical
• Elizabeth Joh, "From Anti-drone Burqas to Face Cages: What Artists Are Showing Us about Surveillance and the Law," The Life of the Law
• Ana Cecilia Alvarez, "How to hide from Big Brother," Dazed
• Rebecca Hiscott, "'Fag Face' Mask Protests Sex Discrimination in Facial-Scanning Tech," Mashable
• Hito Steyerl, "FutureGreats 2014: Zach Blas," ArtReview, March
• Johnny Magdaleno, "Is Facial Recognition Technology Racist?," The Creators Project
• Kyle Chayka, "Facial Weaponization Suite," POSTmatter
• Kara Keeling, "Queer OS," Cinema Journal, Volume 53, Number 2, Winter Download PDF

2013

• "Beginnings + Ends," Frieze, Issue 159, November-December Download PDF
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• Robby Herbst, "Exploring the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives," Artbound / KCET
• Alicia Eler, "The Facelessness of Tomorrow Begins Today," Hyperallergic
• Timothy Murray, "De-Commodification of Artworks: Networked Fantasy of the Open," The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued
• Alexis Lothian and Amanda Phillips, "Can Digital Humanities Mean Transformative Critique?," e-Media Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1
• Daniel Villarreal, "Gay Bombs & Penis Plants: 3 Subversive Queer Artists That'll Eff Your World," gay.net

2012

• "Best of Rhizome 2012," Rhizome
• Lauren Cornell, "Invisibility, or you can’t disappear in America," Mousse Magazine, Number 35 Download PDF
• Mark Marino, "Of Sex, Cylons, and Worms: A Critical Code Study of Heternormativity," Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17, Issue 2

2011

• Bruce Sterling, "Design Fiction: ‘Speculative’ exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions," Wired

2010

• Jacob Gaboury, "Interview with Zach Blas," Rhizome
• Chris Crews, "Patriotic Penetration: Gay Bombs, Queer Times, and Homonationalist Assemblages," Canon Magazine