Writing

Mark Titmarsh
Its only painting, theoretically
Journal of Contemporary Painting
2026, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 245–263.
Image detail: Cover of Journal of Contemporary Painting.
2026, Volume 11, Number 2.

Mark Titmarsh
Theory /of \ Blend: expanded media | convergent technologies | blended ontologies
In THE NOMADIC IMAGE: Explorations at the intersections of art, science, and culture, Art and Australia, 2024, Issue 1, pp. 113–130.
ISBN: 978-0734057211
194 pages | Softcover | B&W images
215 mm H x 139 mm W
Published October 2024.
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Image detail: Cover of The Nomadic Image publication by Art and Australia, 2024.

Mark Titmarsh (2019)
Rein Man: A Review of Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015
Fashion Theory.


What Do Images Want? Towards an Economy of the Image in the Age of Digital Envisioning
Proceedings of the 5th International Transdisciplinary Image Conference, Edinburgh.
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When is an installation, a garment, or a building really a painting?
A + A (Art and Australia), online, March 2018.
Review of Katharina Grosse: The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped, Carriageworks, Sydney, 6 January 2018 – 8 April 2018.
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Titmarsh, Mark.
Sight, Insight, and Out of Sight: From Light as Information to Colour as World
In Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22, no. 1, edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Paul Thomas, and Edward Colless.
Cambridge, MA: LEA / MIT Press, 2017.
ISSN: 1071-4391
ISBN: 978-1-906897-62-8
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How Painting Escaped the Canvas and Another Brush with Death
The Conversation.
18 December 2017.
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Mark Titmarsh
Expanded Painting
Bloomsbury, London
Hardback, 224 pages, 33 illustrations
Published worldwide 24 July 2017.

The Autopoiesis of Colour in the Age of Machinic Shine
In Su Baker, Paul Thomas and Andrew Varano (Eds), The 2nd International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Proceedings, Australia.
ISBN: 978 0 9807186 8 3.
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Towards an Ontology of Colour in the Age of Machinic Shine
Interference Strategies, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 2014, Volume 20, No. 2, pp. 132–145.
ISBN: 978-1-906897-32-1
ISSN: 1071-4391
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The ABC of Paynting
In Sarah Cottier Gallery, 20 Years 200 Exhibitions, 2014.
Formist Publishers, Sydney.
ISBN: 978 0 9875268 4 7 (hbk)
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In the Light of David Batchelor’s Books on Colour: Chromophobia and The Luminous and the Grey
Architectural Theory Review, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 263–266.
DOI: 10.1080/13264826.2014.968958
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Walk the Talk: The Politics of Artists Who Write, Part 2
Art Monthly Australia, No. 261, July 2013, pp. 44–46.
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Walk the Talk: The Politics of Artists Who Write
Art Monthly Australia, No. 260, June 2013, pp. 33–37.
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“Expanded Painting + Urban ReDesign = Art in a Post Medium Condition”
in Urban Life and Contemporary Arts, East Mediterranean Academic Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2013, pp 55-63, ISBN 978-605-4514-05-2

Art vs Design: Saving Power vs Enframing, or A Thing of the Past vs World-Making
With Cameron Tonkinwise.
In STUDIO RESEARCH, No. 1, 2013.
Octivium Press, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
ISSN: 1839-6429.
pp. 6–17.
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Thinking The Phenomenon Of Image Through The Poetics Of Contemporary Expanded Painting
Limes: Borderland Studies, 2012, Volume 5(1), pp. 42–53.
In English and Lithuanian.
ISSN: 2029-7475 (print)
ISSN: 2029-7483 (online)
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Public Fitting: Wet and Wild Discussions
With Todd Robinson.
In The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2012, pp. 383–388.
ISSN: 2045-5852.

Contemporary Hybrid Painting: The Poetics of a Post-Medium Condition
In Su Baker and Paul Thomas (Eds), New Imaging: Transdisciplinary Strategies for Art Beyond the New Media.
Published by Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-9807186-6-9
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Consensual Dissensus
In Mark Titmarsh and Alex Gawronski (Eds), Loose Papers, Loose Projects 2006–2007.
Loose Projects, Sydney, Australia, 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-646-50291.
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Mark Titmarsh
The Being of Painting
PhD Thesis, UTS, 2009.
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Image detail: Cover of PhD Thesis, The Being of Painting, UTS, 2009.
Sheer Aesthetics (2008)
In Palmer, C. and Torevell, D. (Eds), The Turn to Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Exchange of Ideas in Applied and Philosophical Aesthetics.
Liverpool Hope University Press, United Kingdom.
ISBN: 9780951584736.
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Thinking Heidegger’s Post Aesthetics Through the Expanded Field of Painting (2008)
In Palmer, C. and Torevell, D. (Eds), The Turn to Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Exchange of Ideas in Applied and Philosophical Aesthetics.
Liverpool Hope University Press, United Kingdom.
ISBN: 978095158473.
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Feeling the Rub: Making an Ontology of Painting
In Ian Gwilt (Ed), madeKnown: Digital Technologies and the Ontology of Making.
UTS, Sydney, 2006.
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Stickin’ it to the Man
SynCity Catalogue, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, October 2006.
ISBN: 0-9751369-1-7.
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Stargazing: The Super 8 Scene of the 1980s
SynCity Catalogue, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, October 2006.
ISBN: 0-9751369-1-7.
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Shapes of Inhabitation: Painting in the Expanded Field
Art Monthly Australia, No. 189, May 2006.
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The Origin of the Work of Art in the Age of Collective Discursivity
Natural Selection, No. 5, Summer 2006, New Zealand.
Special section on Ian Burn, edited by Ann Stephen.
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Game with Vestiges – Interview with Jean Baudrillard
With Salvatore Mele.
Reprinted in Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1993.
ISBN: 978-0-415-07038-6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-415-07037-9 (hardback)
ISBN: 978-0-203-41585-6 (electronic)
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