Selected Publications

Books

Media Thinking: Theory by Other Things. Edited Volume, Bloomsbury Academic | Thinking Media Series, (forthcoming 2027).

Making the Machine Fail: Broken-Tech Aesthetics from Xerox to Digital Media, Stanford University Press (forthcoming 2028).

Edited Series:

Muliaee, Maryam, ed. Special Issue: Infrastructural Ecologies. MAST Journal 7, no. 2 (forthcoming Nov 2026).

Muliaee, Maryam, ed. Special Issue: Media Archaeology and Art. MAST Journal 5, no. 1 (2024).

Muliaee, Maryam, ed. Special Issue: The Art of Media Research. MAST Journal 4, no. 2 (2023).

Muliaee, Maryam, and Mani Mehrvarz, eds. Special Issue: Mapping Media Studies. MAST Journal 1, no. 1 (2020).

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:

Muliaee, Maryam. “The Art of Programmable Error: From Xerox Degeneration to AI-Generated Variation.” In Handbook of Media Futures, Edited by Christoph Ernst, Lea Klingberg, and Jens Schröter. De Gruyter, forthcoming 2027.

Muliaee, Maryam. “Speculative Nostalgia in Media Art Practice.” In Mediations of Nostalgia: Politics, Memory, Futures, Edited by Katharina Niemeyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, forthcoming 2026.

Muliaee, Maryam. “Feminist Media-Archaeological Art: New Directions in Media Research.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Archaeology, edited by Erkki Huhtamo, Doron Galili and Meredith Bak. Routledge, forthcoming 2026.

Muliaee, Maryam, and Mani Mehrvarz. “Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art.” In Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, and Media, edited by Timothy Barker and Maria Korolkova, 149–162. Bloomsbury Thinking Media Series, 2021.

Mehrvarz, Mani, and Maryam Muliaee. “Media-as-Things: A Nonhistorical Nostalgia through Failure.” In Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia, edited by Ryan Lizardi, 167–188. Peter Lang, 2019.

Peer-reviewed Articles:

Muliaee, Maryam. “Faire dysfonctionner la machine : photocopieuses et esthétique d’une technologie défaillante.” Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, no. 175, Centre Pompidou, Apr 2026. https://boutique.centrepompidou.fr/en/product/42813-les-cahiers-du-musee-national-art-moderne-175.html

Muliaee, Maryam. “Media Archaeology and Art: An Exploration of Past, Present, and Future.” MAST Journal 5, no. 1 (2024): 2–11. https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.5.1.01

Muliaee, Maryam. “The Art of Media Research.” MAST Journal 4, no. 2 (2023): 2–8. https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.4.2.01

Muliaee, Maryam. “Recycling Destroyed Cities: Ruined Archives in Copy Art.” Frames Cinema Journal 19 (2022): 226–242. https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v19i0.2387

Muliaee, Maryam. “Media-as-Things: The Intensified Materiality of Degenerated Images.” Metacritic Journal 7, no. 1 (2021): 40–57. https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.11.03

Muliaee, Maryam. “Crossing a Productive Melancholia in Artistic Work Based on Xerography.” Ekphrasis: The Journal of Images, Cinema, Theory, Media 21, no. 1 (2019): 82–92. https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.7