Writing

Mark Titmarsh

Its only painting, theoretically

Journal of Contemporary Painting

2026, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 245–263.

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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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Mark Titmarsh (2019)

Rein Man: A Review of Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015

Fashion Theory.

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Piss Off Westconnex

In Art + Australia, 2019, Issue Five (55.2): Brutalism.


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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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 Always-Already-Having-Been-There

Photofile, No. 77, Autumn 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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Now Voyagers: Psychogeography and Time

Photofile, No. 75, Spring 2005.
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Time and Tide

Art Monthly, June 2004, Sydney.
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Onion Skin Airmail

Art Hotline, 0055 29334, 1992–1995, Sydney, 1995.
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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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Untimely Meditations

With Lindy Lee.

Art and Australia, Spring 1988.
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The Titans Goblet

Tension, No. 8, September 1985.
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Touch Me Television

On The Beach, ¾, 1984.
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