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Academic and Scholarly Writing, Papers, Articles

This section contains selected academic and scholarly writings related to art, art practice, art history and art theory. 
For additional critical papers, visit my Academia.edu page.

Also: Poetry, Chapbooks, Prose  and Experimental Writing
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MFA Thesis - Televisual Memory and the Telescoping Fire Station: Landscape as Media-Memory Site

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adams_works_consulted_3.3.pdf
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Haunted Temporality: The Loop as Semi-Narrative Engine

f14_rp3_1.7_loops.pdf
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Televisual Memory and the Telescoping Fire Station - Landscape as Media-Memory Site

This paper has the same title as my MFA thesis because it served as the core for the longer work. However, there is information contained in this paper which is not present in the final thesis.
televisual_memory_and_telescoping_firestation_1.8.2.pdf
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​Remix and the Celestial Jukebox – The Contemporary Artist as Cultural DJ

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​The Inherent Unfinished: The Infinite Nature of the Postmodern Masterpiece

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Landscape as Digital Elastic-Space: Constructing Conceptual Geographies in Digital Dataspace

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Specific Constellations: Lacunae and the Postmodern Archivist Tendency

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Alchemy of Image – The Spacetime, A-Team Supercluster

f13_rp3_adams-final.pdf
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Richard Diebenkorn and Agnes Martin:
Negative Space–Synthesis of Method and Regional Influence 

adams_negative_space_synthesis.pdf
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Postmodernism and Transitional Society 

Critical theory response. 
PostModernism.pdf
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The Archaeology of Being, 2012 (BFA Honor's Thesis in Studio Art)

My primary body of work, concerned with the emergence of being from non-being, matter from non-matter and its relation to philosophy, physics and archaeology. Click the link below to download a PDF copy of my thesis. 
The Archaeology of Being Thesis - (PDF)
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Additional Research for Archaeology of Being
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