A selection of early published essays as a free lance theorist are online available here. There are much more texts published as catalogues / project publication texts, as part of Houtermans’ own art projects (1997 – now). These are available on request.

“Bounce > Towards an Aesthetic of a ‘Movement’/ Naar een esthetica van een ‘beweging’” in: Bounce>Rotterdam, Manitoba, Canada 1995, p. 86-89. Text (English & Dutch) about an artists-in-residence project in Canada and contemporary art theory. Online version here

“De taal van de vrouwelijke lust. Over de onmogelijke opgave van Elfriede Jelinek” (“The Language of Woman’s Lust. About the Impossible Task of Elfriede Jelinek”) in: Mba Kajere magazine #1, 1996, p. 47-50. Text (Dutch) about the Austrian writer, her a-pornografic novel Lust and the influence of Georges Bataille’s philosophy. Online version here

“Chimerical Shiftings (or an initiation to mythomania)/ Chimerische gestalten (of een aanzet tot mythomanie)” in: Mba Kajere #2, autumn 1996, p. 80-84. Text (English & Dutch) about shifting identities, gender, the Chimera and cyborgs…Online version here

“Safe Harbour. Een hedendaags reisverhaal” (“Safe Harbour. A contemporary travelogue”) in: R’96, de nieuwe verleiding, Rotterdam 1997, p. 4-11. Text (Dutch) about a digital media installation of Canadian artist Stacey Spiegel and Conrads novel Heart of Darkness. Online version here

“O and Lukas Vandenabeele’s recent work/en het recente werk van Lukas Vandenabeele” in: Lucas Vandenabeele, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (ICC), Antwerpen 1997, Belgie , p. 12-25. Text (English & Dutch) about the work of Belgian visual artist Lukas Vandenabeele, Marquis de Sade and Japan. Online version here

‘Fragmentos de Mark Manders’. Text in Portuguese about the work of Dutch visual artist Mark Manders for information folder to accompany the exhibition, Mark Manders Self-portrait in a surrounding Area,  XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, 1998, publisher Portão. Online version here

“Fables of a Technological Era” in Circa, technology suplement, Dublin, Ireland, winter 1999, s10-11. Text (fragment, English) about an interdisciplinary art project in the Rotterdam zoo. Online version here

“Dan Oki. Gene Pool”, Split, Croatia, 2000. Text (fragment, English & Croatian) about the work of Croatian digital media artist Dan Oki. Online version here

SYNC. Nathalie Houtermans (ed.) Texts catalogue by Yukiko Shikata & Kazunao Abe, Henk Oosterling and Nathalie Houtermans (English & Dutch) CELLdivision release 001/pub 001, Rotterdam, 1998. Online version here

Text about project TUNNELVISION for Tubelight Magazine here. Website TUNNELVISION, was designed in collaboration with Arno Coenen & Rene Bosma. Flyers, posters and cd-rom sleevedesign by 75B. Catalogue (cd-rom), design in collaboration with Arno Coenen & Rene Bosma and Splitscreen , CELLdivision release 002/cdrom 001, R’dam, 1998.

Project INTRACORP: catalogue (multiple with various artist contributions), design in collaboration with Minke Themans, CELLdivision release 005/pub 002, R’dam, 1999.  Texts online here