WRITING & EDITING
Consulting Services
From reports to novels, business and technical topics to memoirs and self help, we can help you develop, refine, and produce high-quality documents.
April Durham, PhD has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing articles, manuals, novels, reports, statements, and policy documents. Her many published works on her own research and in her creative practice reflect the care she will bring to your project, from rough draft to polished final.
WRITING & EDITING SERVICES
Business, technical, academic, and creative writing services provided by April Durham, PhD, a skilled professional with over 20 years of experience in the field.
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Diana Thater, artist
Chris Kraus, novelist & cultural critic
Southern California Edison, utility provider
Nabors Well Service, energy company
Sigrid Insull, design consultant
Magdalena Curtis, personal coach
California State Parks Service, government
Rincon Consultants, planning consultancy
PUBLICATIONS
by April Durham, PhD
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Please RSVP: Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-subjectivity, and the Politics of Love. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2019.
“Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Digital Aesthetics of Trans-Subjectivity.” Camera Obscura. 31:3, 35-64. December 2016.
“Networked Bodies in Cyberspace: Orchestrating the Trans-Subjective in the Video Artworks of Natalie Bookchin.” Art Journal (Fall 2013): 66-81
“We have Built You: On the Nature of Artificial Intelligence in Blade Runner and Babylon Babies. ” Forum Journal 16 (June 2013). Web. http://www.forumjournal.org/site/issue/16/april-durham
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Books
Common Objects, collaboration with photographer Olive Martin. Beyond Baroque Books 2004.
Common Objects. Tr. Anne-Lise Brossard and Alexandre Civico. Nantes, France: éditions joca seria 2004.
…Once the search is in progress, with Dessislava Dimova, Olive Martin, Michelle Naismith, Nico Docks, Douglas Park, Merryn Singer. Nantes,
France: École des Beaux Arts et Le Marie de Nantes, June 2002.
Short Stories & Poems
“Things Lost, Three Poems.” Wicked Alice. (Fall 2009). Web. http://www.sundress.net/ wickedalice/contents29.html.
“Satellites.” Phantom Seed. 3 (August 2009): 129-132.
“Family Atlas.” Slouching Towards Mt. Rubidoux Manor 2 (Summer 2009): 13-15.
“An Inconclusive Visit Among Strangers.”Midway Journal. (February 2009). Web. http://www.midwayjournal.com.
“Bored Rigid and Waiting to Get Famous.” [com]motion 1. (2007). http://www.smallwonderfound.org/webpages/swpress.html.
“Fiery Artificial Tide.”on Fire (soma rot). Los Angeles, California: Beyond Baroque Books, 2003.
“Chloe.” Small Doggies. 4. (November 2003). Web. http://smalldoggiesmagazine.com.
“Moi.” 02 Issue Special (June-July 2003): 5
“Terrain de Nantes.” 02 Issue Special (June-July 2003): 11-13.
“Sirens etc.” Black Diamond Biennale Issue (September 2002): 9-17.
“Addicted.” Small Doggies. 2. (September 2002). Web. http://smalldoggiesmagazine.com.
“Little Known Facts,” A Little Bit of Pain: Black Diamond Special Issue (June 2002): 12-13.
“Appointments Vacant: Carried off By a Single Hair.” Some Fiction. Hollywood, CA: Lemon Sky Gallery, November 2000. 15-23.
“List Poems.” Log Illustrated (Summer 2000): 37.
CATALOG ESSAYS
“Techno Eyes Still Gleaming: Belief and the Sublime with Aliens Invading.”
Brewery Projects 1993-2007: The Finale. John O’Brien, ed. Pasadena, California: Armory Center for the Arts, 2008. 20-23.
“Mapping Uncertainty.” Structures of Knowledge: Raid Projects Journal (November 2001: 9-10.
“On the sublime.” Techno Eyes Filled with the Gleaming Fire from More than a Thousand Fluorescent Bulbs. Brewery Projects, Los Angeles, California. February 2001.
BOOK & EXHIBITION REVIEWS
The Postcolonial Culture Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies. Sandra Ponzanesi, Palgrave, 2014. in Postcolonial Studies. 20(2). 252-253.
Community without Community in Digital Culture. Charlie Gere. Palgrave, 2012. In International Journal of Communication. 7(2013), 2282-2284.
“Play with Me: Interactive De-Struct[ion]ure at the Museum of of Latin-American Art.” Cyberurchin (August 17, 2012). Web. https://cyberurchin.com/2012/08/17/play-with-me-interactive-de-structionure-at-molaa/
“Reviewing Rodarte: Topographies of Collaborative Thinking.” Critical Digital (2011). Web. https://cdh.ucr.edu/2011/09/08/reviewing-rodarte-topgraphies-of-collaborative-thinking/index.html