Books

Golan Levin and Tega Brain. (2021). Code as Creative Medium, MIT Press.





Essays, Articles and Chapters

Brain, Tega, and Sarah Lavigne. "A Very Brief Survey of AI Companies." In Are You a Software Update?, edited by N. O'Murchú and J. F. Janša. Aksioma, 2025. https://aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update.

Brain, Tega, Sam Lavigne, Corinna Kirsch, and Rebecca Uliasz. "Sabotage, Implementation, and Expanded Geo-engineering: An Interview with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on Collaborative Practice." Media-N 21, no. 1 (2025): 111-118.

Brain, Tega, and Sarah Lavigne. "All That Is Air Melts into Air." E-Flux Architecture, 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/spatial-computing/592129/all-that-is-air-melts-into-air/.

Brain, Tega. "Fluxes and Flows." In Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and Philosophy, edited by Nomeda Urbonas and Gediminas Urbonas. Sternberg Press, 2024.

Brain, Tega, A. Nathanson, and B. Piantella. "Solar Protocol: Exploring Energy-Centered Design." In Workshop on Computing within Limits, 2022. https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/.

Brain, Tega, and Sarah Lavigne. "The Battle to Control the Carbon Media Cycle." Ding, 2021. https://dingdingding.org/issue-4/the-battle-to-control-the-carbon-media-cycle/.

Piantella, Benedetta., Alex Nathanson, Tega Brain, and Ken Ohshiro. "Solar-Powered Server: Designing for a More Energy Positive Internet." In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–4. 2020.

Nooney, Laine, and Tega Brain. "A 'Speculative Pasts' Pedagogy: Where Speculative Design Meets Historical Thinking." Digital Creativity 30, no. 4 (2019): 270–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2019.1683042.

Brain, Tega. "New Phenologies." UnBag, 2019. https://unbag.net/in-tension/new-phenologies.

Brain, Tega. "The Environment Is Not a System." APRJA 7, no. 1 (2018). https://aprja.net/article/view/116062.

Brain, Tega, and Sarah Lavigne. "Simulating Enron." Rhizome, November 21, 2016. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/nov/21/simulating-enron/.

Brain, Tega, and Surya Mattu. "I Think It Worked Because Mercury Was in the House of Jupiter!." Digital Culture & Society 2, no. 1 (2016). https://digicults.org/issues/vol-2-issue-12016-quantified-selves-statistical-bodies/

Brain, Tega, and Jodi Newcombe. "Exploring environmental stewardship through data-driven practices." In Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology, pp. 47-61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-15153-3_2

Brain, Tega. "At Home in the Universe: Tega Brain Interviews Margaret Wertheim." Guernica, 2015. https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/at-home-in-the-universe/.

Brain, Tega. "Making Architecture Public." In Expanded Architecture: Avant-Garde Film + Expanded Cinema + Architecture. Berlin: Broken Dimanche Press, 2012.