Role of the Artist
Rothko, M. "The Romantics Were Prompted..." (1947) in Art In Theory 1900-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003) pp 571-573.
Artforum. From "The Artist and Politics: a Symposium" (1970) in Art In Theory 1900-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003) pp 922-926.
Hawkins, J. "When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial" (C-Theory: June 2005).
Sholette, G. "From Imaginary Autonomy to Autonomous Collectivity" (2002).
Temporary Services. Framing the Artists (2005).

Seeing and Being
Mulvey, L. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen 16.3 (Autumn 1975), pp. 6-18.
Dyer, R. "The Light of the World" in White (London: Routledge, 1997) pp 82-144.
Deloria, V. "Counterculture Indians and the New Age,"in Playing Indian (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999) pp 154-180.

Recombinant Culture
Certeau, M. "Making Do: Uses and Tactics" in The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1983), pp. 29-42.
Bourriaud, N. Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World (New York: Lukas Sternberg, 2000).
Critical Art Ensemble, "Recombinant Theater and the Performative Matrix" in The Electronic Disturbance (New York: Autonomedia, 1993).