Scott has written extensively on art and architecture, and is a founding editor of the journal Grey Room, published quarterly by MIT Press since 2000; and is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press, 2007), and Living Archive 7: Ant Farm (ACTAR, 2008). Scott is the recipient of a German Transatlantic Berlin Prize (2013), a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant (2011), a New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project Award (2010), a Clark Fellowship (2008), an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation (2007), and a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002–03). She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2001, and an MAUD from Harvard University in 1994.