Colour Archives – Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a recrypted iteration of a philosopher, and is Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism.

Maya has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.

Their research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.

Available for editorial, proofreading, copy-editing, and translation (FR>EN) work, and commissions. Buy me a coffee.

2021

Éric Alliez, ‘Spectres of Seurat’

Translation

2019

Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, ‘Unframing Painting, “Pushing Back the Walls”’

On Matisse, Yve-Alain Bois, and Colour

Translation

2017

Hyperplastic-Supernormal

Text for the book documenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s installation ‘Our Product’ for the 2016 Venice Biennale.

Writing

2015

Preface to ‘The Brain-Eye’

An introduction to the methodological and conceptual stakes of Alliez’s studies of modern painting

Writing

2015

Éric Alliez and Jean-Clet Martin, ‘The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting’

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting

Translation

2015

The Brain-Ear

Talk on Florian Hecker given at Graz Kunstlerhaus

Writing

2015

Our Product (with Pamela Rosenkranz)

Collaborative text with Pamela Rosenkranz to accompany her work for the Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015.

Writing

2012

No Core Dump

On the work of Pamela Rosenkranz

Writing