Books
Essays, Articles and Chapters
Brain, Tega. "Occursions: On Ways of Seeing Flowers" in SOFIA CRESPO × ANNA RIDLER: A Field of Collaboration edited by Charlotte Kent, Hatje Cantz Verlag, (Forthcoming in 2026).
Brain, Tega. "Fluxes and Flows," in Swamps and the New Imagination , edited by Nomeda Urbonas, Gediminas Urbonas and Kristupas Sabolius, Sternberg Press (Forthcoming in 2026).
Birsel, Zeynep, Tega Brain, Sara Brandão, Peter Burian, Antonio Camurri, Marita Canina, Patricia Carvalho et al. "SCIENCE+ TECHNOLOGY+ ARTS: Lessons Learned from a Decade of European Transdisciplinary Innovation." (2026): 350.
Brain, Tega. “The Environment is Not a System. In Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis, edited by Majaca, Antonia. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
Brain, Tega, and Sam 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 Sam 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, 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 Sam 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.
Brain, Tega. "Fluxes and Flows," in Swamps and the New Imagination , edited by Nomeda Urbonas, Gediminas Urbonas and Kristupas Sabolius, Sternberg Press (Forthcoming in 2026).
Birsel, Zeynep, Tega Brain, Sara Brandão, Peter Burian, Antonio Camurri, Marita Canina, Patricia Carvalho et al. "SCIENCE+ TECHNOLOGY+ ARTS: Lessons Learned from a Decade of European Transdisciplinary Innovation." (2026): 350.
Brain, Tega. “The Environment is Not a System. In Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis, edited by Majaca, Antonia. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
Brain, Tega, and Sam 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 Sam 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, 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 Sam 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.