Technical Writer — Editor — Communications
Christopher Howard
Technical writer and editor with over twenty years of experience in institutional publishing, digital communications, editorial workflows, cultural organizations, and knowledge systems. Author of The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist (MIT Press, 2018). Former Artforum contributor. Based in Astoria, Queens.
Portfolio
Exporting Website Content from Indexhibit
Procedural guide to exporting page content, media metadata, and database backups from an Indexhibit CMS installation using phpMyAdmin. Documents a legacy-CMS migration process for nondeveloper site owners, including database export, media metadata, and backup steps.
Creating Section Markdown Files from Indexhibit Content
Companion guide to the Indexhibit export. Documents a multistep content-conversion workflow for users who need to preserve site structure and media context during migration. Covers reading and understanding exported CSV files and running a Python script to produce one Markdown file per site section.
Essay arguing that abiogenesis, not consciousness, is the more consequential threshold for evaluating the significance of AI.
Entry point for a fellowship competition at an overseas research center. Includes overview, eligibility, deadlines, collaborations, and selection process across thirteen professional disciplines. Includes an extensive FAQ.
End-to-end editorial and production work on a biannual institutional print magazine across nine consecutive issues. Managing editor, writer, and sole producer of both 2021 issues.
A report for Art in America that examined the patronage structures, legal complexities, and institutional politics surrounding the Earthworks movement of the 1960s and 1970s — and why the “uncollectible” framing obscures more than it reveals.
Back-of-book index for The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist (MIT Press, 2018), compiled by the author. Encompasses personal names, institutions, publications, artworks, exhibitions, movements, concepts, and places.
An in-house reference establishing preferred spellings, hyphenation, and usage for terms recurring across institutional publications, from web copy and newsletters to scholarly journals.