Byron Wilson







 in process




Monographs


A Book of Acknowledgement as Testimony
A story of Black creative formation in Los Angeles within Art Center College of Design

A Book of Acknowledgement as Witness
A story of Black creative formation in Los Angeles within Art Center College of Design




  • Manuscripts

  • On Formal Theory and aesthetics

  • Ethics of Form I:  Photography, Evidence, and Judgement
  • Ethics of Form II:  Force, Translation and the Limits of Capacity
  • Ethics of Form III:  A Sacred Plasticity
    (series in development)

  • Harlem is Still Nowhere:  Richard Wright’s Black Health Aesthetics, and the Afterlife of the Renaissance

  • The Plastic Image:  Material Exposure and the Afterlife of Form in Michael Heizer's Double Negative

  • On aesthetics and black studies 

  • In the Void:  Photographic Formation and Black Sacred Time on Mormon Mesa

  • Before and After are not Broken:  Howard Thurman and the  Sacred Plasticity of Photographic Night

  • Living Witness and the regimes of Reception:  Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman on Institutional Form and Black Presence

On Education and black studies 

  • Sitting with the Problem:  Reviews of Racialized Processes and Racism in Educational Research

  • Mapping Community Demand and Public College Provision in Mid-Century Black Los Angeles


  • On philosophy and science
  • On Collaborative Worldmaking: AI Ontologies, Mimetic Desire, and Remembering Suffering

  • Epistemic Humility as Witness: Reading Enterprise AI Ontologies with James Cone

  • Subjectifying Machines and the Rendering of Black Life as Calculable:  Black Theology in an age of Agentic AI

Images

  1. Gordon Parks, contact sheet- (studies of runner),1952
  2. Gordon Parks, contact sheet-(studies of an artificial eye in a glass of water),1952 
  3. Gordon Parks, Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1952
  4. Mathew Brady Studio, after William D. McPherson and Mr. Oliver, Peter, 1863
  5. Arthur Jafa, Ex-Slave Gordon, 2017
  6. Arthur Jafa, BG, 2024
  7. Fred Eversley, Untitled, 1975
  8. Michael Heizer, powder blasting caliche cap of Mormon Mesa, Nevada
    Michael Heizer, 1968
  9. Byron Wilson, Untitled, 2025
  10. Gordon Parks, Window, Harlem, New York, 1952. Gelatin silver print.
  11. Gordon Parks,Mysticism, Harlem, New York, 1952. Gelatin silver print.
  12. Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, New York), from the series “Harlem is Nowhere”, LIFE, 1948.
  13. Gianfranco Gorgoni, Double Negative, 1969
  14. Byron Wilson, Untitled, 2024
  15. Byron Wilson, negative for Untitled, 2024
  16. Field notes and shot sheet for imaging Double Negative, 2024
  17. Field notes and shot sheet for imaging Double Negative, 2024
  18. Byron Wilson, Void - 2, 2025
  19. Byron Wilson, Musoni, 2025
  20. Byron Wilson, Void - 1, 2024
  21. Ricahrd Saul Wurman, Urban Atlas: 20 American Cities, 1966
  22. Ricahrd Saul Wurman, Urban Atlas: 20 American Cities, 1966




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