Mihai Băcăran

Unpublished writing
Experimental book (draft) based on my PhD thesis: Specta(c)torship in Net Art^(?): Individuation After Simondon

Published writing:

* for ethical reasons, I am committed to publishing exclusively open-access

In peer reviewed journals

Băcăran, Mihai. “Reading and Living the (Im)Material Movement of Sense: Jonathan Basile’s The Library of Babel and Xin Liu’s A Book of Mine” forthcoming June 2025, in Ex-Position Journal

Băcăran, Mihai. “The Mark of the Brief Night: Imminent Loss and Responsibility” in Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture & Technology, Issue 37, 2024. Open access at: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Trans37_01_Bacaran.pdf

dalpofzs (Băcăran, Mihai, Darie Nemeș-Bota, Bogdan Dumitrescu, Alexandra Dumitrescu). “Dynamics of Sensemaking” in TECMERIN, Issue 13, No. 1, 2024. Open access at: https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/dynamics-of-sensemaking-2/?lang=en

Băcăran, Mihai. “(Dis)Orientation in Net Art: Disrupting the Feedback Loop of Cybernetic Subjectivities” in NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2023. Open access at: https://necsus-ejms.org/disorientation-in-net-art-disrupting-the-feedback-loop-of-cybernetic-subjectivities/

Băcăran, Mihai. “The Problematic of Embodiment in Online Specta(c)torship” in In Medias Res: International Scientific Journal for the Philosophy of Media, Vol. 12, No. 22, 2023, pp. 3609-3625. Open access at: http://www.centar-fm.org/inmediasres_eng/index.php/mihai-bacaran-the-problematic-of-embodiment-in-online-specta-c-torship

Băcăran, Mihai. “Revisiting 'Genesis': living as misspelling” in Revista humanidades, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2023. Open access at: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/humanidades/article/view/52598

Băcăran, Mihai. “Imaginary gestures of specta(c)torship: Darie Nemeș Bota’s 'Urban Seashell'” in Revista Muzica, Vol.XXXIII, No.2, 2022, pp. 38-55. Invited reprint of an earlier article, with further edits. Open access at: http://www.ucmr.org.ro/Texte/RM_2022_2_3_MBacaran_Imaginary%20Gestures%20of%20Spectatorship.pdf

Băcăran, Mihai. “Imaginary gestures of specta(c)torship: Darie Nemeș Bota’s 'Urban Seashell'” in Trivium. A multidisciplinary journal of humanities of Chandernagore College, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 24-39. Open access at: https://trivium-journal.in/article.php?article=e9236cebe0b8130defbd1969d75a17b5

Băcăran, Mihai. “The Han Dynasty Tombs at Mawangdui. Image Analysis” in Buletinul Cercurilor Ştiinţifice Studenţeşti, No. 19, 2013, pp. 35-49. (in Romanian) Open access at: http://diam.uab.ro/istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_bcss/bcss_19/3_Mihai%20Bacaran.pdf

Other publications

Băcăran, Mihai. “Snowflakes: The Individuation of Melting Memories” in conference proceedings e-book Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art and Science 2020, edited by Dalila Honorato, María Antonia Gonzáles Valerio, Ingeborg Reichle and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos. Ionian University Publications, 2022, pp. 323-332. The e-book can be downloaded open access at: https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2020/en/proceedings/

Băcăran, Mihai. “It Is As If You Were Doing Work — A (Mis)Reading” in Hz Journal, No.21, 2019. Open access at: http://hz-journal.org/n21/bacaran.html

Băcăran, Mihai. “'Well, well! What an unenviable job judging must be!' — dissenting reports from the 1947 Travelling Scholarship and Art School Prizes”, article on the blog of University of Melbourne Archives, 8 October 2018. Open access at: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2018/10/08/well-well-what-an-unenviable-job-judging-must-be-dissenting-reports-from-the-1947-travelling-scholarship-and-art-school-prizes/

Băcăran, Mihai. “Alternatives” in Arhitext, No.4, 2013. Download the PDF here