[citation needed] Since 1974, Klein has been a professor in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts,[5] where he is on the faculty of both the Master's Program in Aesthetics and Politics and the Center for Integrated Media.
As layered systems that resemble certain genres of games and other media narrative formats, Klein's novels primarily offer literary alternatives.
[citation needed] Klein has written catalog essays for Doug Aitken,[18] Chip Lord,[19] "The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside,"[20] "More Real?
Art in the Age of Truthiness,"[21] "Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999,"[22] Simon Denny,[23] Kutluğ Ataman,[24] Karina Nimmerfall,[25] Rossen Crow,[26] Peter Friedl,[27] Christian Jankowski,[28] Bjørn Melhus,[29] George Stone,[30] "Las Vegas Aesthetics,"[31] "Animations,"[32] "Au-Delà du Spectacle,"[33] "Reading California,"[34] Martin Kippenberger,[35] and Helter Skelter.
[36] Klein's most cited publications on digital media include "After the Crash: Imagining New Paradigms for the Study of Collective Memory,"[37] "Labor, Architecture and the New Feudalism: Urban Space as Experience,"[38] "Spaces Between Traveling Through Bleeds, Apertures, and Wormholes inside the Database Novel,"[39] and "Media as an Instrument of Power.