2025 · postscriptum

Girl Intelligence

The Girl is a paradox, at once hypervisible and impossible to define. Despite cultural efforts to erase or redefine her, she persists, mutating through media, politics and technology. She is not just an aesthetic persona, but an active force, capable of absorbing and subverting ideological narratives. By tracing her intertwining with AI, consumerism and gender politics, Quicho reveals the Girl’s extraordinary abilities: she can escape control and, in so doing, never truly disappears.

GLOBAL · Aksioma · Metalabel

Developed with generous support from Weibel Institute of Digital Cultures.

essays 2023-2024

Gore layer

Final girl montage.
Spike · 2024

She’s evil

Do-it-yourself subliminal messaging.
Zora · 2023

Prey mode

Latent pleasures of surrender.
Dazed · 2023

Girls online

Forced feminisation of technology discourse.
Wired · 2023

Without world

World-building and what comes next.
The White Review · 2023

EXHIBITION TEXTS & BOOK CHAPTERS

Defiguration

For Fabienne Audéoud
Fondation Pernod-Ricard · 2024

Liquid smooth

Wetware, past and present.
Chronologies of Creamcake · 2024

Copycat

For Linnea Skoglösa — Ultra Currency
Neven Gallery · 2024

Immaculate foursome

For Arvida Byström — Cut the Cake
Dunkers Kulturhus · 2024

Questions to heaven

For Korakrit Arunanondchai — A Machine Boosting Energy into the Universe
Singapore Art Museum · 2022

Dream time

For Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser — Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?
Julia Stoschek Collection · 2022

SELECTED 2016-2021

Tropical futurism

Futures from the Third World.
Wired · 2021

Scar tissue

Insurrection and infernal loops.
The New Inquiry · 2019

Born under a bad sign

Death from above.
Real Life · 2017

Brightness inside

Daylight horror.
Real Life · 2016

2021 · ZERO BOOKS

Small Gods

Small Gods deconstructs the mythology of the drone: as soothing sound, aerial spy, and killing machine. Each chapter focuses on the work of an artist with a unique understanding of drone technologies, illuminating myriad facets of these entangled entities. Empty metal becomes a future-facing spirit, a ride into the afterlife, a god or a ghost.

Global · Librarystack
UK · Hive · Bookshop · Waterstones · Foyles
USA · Indiebound · Barnes and Noble

Developed with generous support from Canada Council for the Arts.

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“Alex Quicho approaches her vivisection of the new, droning flesh with Ballardian playfulness, Mark Fisher’s ethical backbone, and Mary Shelley’s hunger for new visions.”

— Aleš Kot, author of Days of Hate

“Surprising, delightful, engrossing, disturbing, and ultimately inspiring, Small Gods is a thoughtful and and urgent meditation on the ways that life is being re-constituted by technology, rightfully [placing] these powerful new entities in the long history of a world forged through empire.”

— Vincent Bevins, author of the Jakarta Method

“A luminous exploration of drone technology in the gallery and in open air, Alex Quicho gives form to the machinic gaze and asks what we see when we self-surveil, what view of the human is conjured by the drone’s-eye perspective. Haunting and revelatory, this book will have you searching the skies above you for the unseen presence of these small gods, their hidden reach.”

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine

“Quicho reminds us of the exhilarating disorientation when art makes the bizarre, cruel, and occasionally sumptuous tech-mediated present somehow feel more real.”

— Esmé Hogeveen, Bomb Magazine