Forthcoming Publications:
Contact: Art and the Pull of Print (Princeton University Press, forthcoming spring 2024). The book version of my Mellon Lectures from spring 2021 on the physics and poetics of print.
The Heartbeat at the Edge of the Solar System: Science, Emotion, and the Golden Record, co-authored with Dario Robleto. An analysis of the cultural and cosmic implications of the EEG and EKG signatures on the Voyager Golden Record, in relation to the history of graphic inscriptions from the interior of the body. (Simon and Schuster/Marysue Rucci; Viking UK, forthcoming 2025).
"Waiting to be Seen: The Art and Science of Precovery." in Anna von Mertens, ed., Attention is Discovery: A Response to the Life of Henrietta Leavitt." MIT Press, forthcoming 2024. An essay on the turbulent convergence of astronomy and revisionist history aroud the role and status of the archive.
Recent Publications:
For full text of selected previous publications, see https://harvard.academia.edu/JenniferRoberts
September 2023. "Robert Smithson's Monument to Contingency." The Atlantic.
January 2023. "Filaments: Sensitivity and Connection in the Work of Dario Robleto." In Michael Metzger, ed., The Heart's Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, exh. cat., Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
December 2022. "Material Intelligence in Orbit." In Material Intelligence Magazine, vol. 4. What happens to our understanding of a material (brass, in this case) when we take it off the surface of the planet?
November 2022. "The Mimeograph and the Chrysanthemum," in Helen Molesworth, ed., Ruth Asawa: All is Possible (David Zwirner Books). On Ruth Asawa's botanical drawings.
October 2022. "Listening to Print," in Elleree Erdos, ed., Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, exh. cat. Print Center New York. On what we can learn about print by looking at sound.
June 2022. "The Back of the Image; the Image of the Back," in Deidre O'Dwyer, ed., Matt Saunders: Poems of Our Climate (Dancing Foxes Press). On dorsality and reversal in the work of Matt Saunders.
2021. "Casting Blind," in Scott Rothkopf and Carlos Basualdo, eds., Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror (Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art). What if we think of painting as a form of casting?