SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2020 Organizer and Moderator, "Art School Confidential," roundtable with Carol Becker, Dewey Crumpler, John Priola and Gordon Knox, Brooklyn Rail
2019 Book Presentation with Constance M. Lewallen, CCA Curatorial Research Bureau at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2019 Book Presentation with Constance M. Lewallen, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
2019 Book Presentation with Constance, M. Lewallen and Ted Mann, Berkeley Art Museum
2018 Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, with Constance M. Lewallen, in conjunction with the exhibition of Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor, curated by Ted Mann
2018 Schaulager, Basel, On "Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts," with Constance M. Lewallen
2018 Conference Paper, College Art Association, Panel on Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging, Los Angeles
2017 Conference Paper and Panel Chair, IAWIS, Lausanne
2017 Conference Paper: Installations, a phenomenological and cognitive approach, Langarts, Sorbonne, Paris
2016 Conference Paper, European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference, Rennes
2015 Workshop, The Center for Photographic Art, PIE Lab, Carmel CA
2015 Conference Paper, "The Diorama Effect: What If We Begin the History of Photography Before Photography?" at the 6th International Conference on the Image, UC Berkeley
2014 Conference Paper, "The Magic Lamp and the Gazomètre: Reading the1825 Paris Diorama," The Enlightened Image," Université de Québec à Montréal
2013 Conference Paper, Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from the Arab World, University of California, Santa Cruz CA
2013 Dialogue with Constance Lewallen on Double Blind by Sophie Calle and Greg Shepard, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco
2013 Conference Paper, “On the Site of Her Own Exclusion: Theorizing A Queer Feminist Art History from Yael Bartana’s "…and Europe Will Be Stunned,” Canadian Art History Association Conference, Montreal
2012 Public Lecture, “Notes from an Excavation at the Arab Image Foundation,” Hollins University, Roanoke VA
2012 Public Lecture, “Site Specific, Elsewhere: The Diorama in Contemporary Art,” Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
2012 Public Lecture, “The Diorama as Political Landscape Circa 1825,” Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
2011 Public Lecture on Bay Area Avant-Garde and Christine Tamblyn, The Living Room, curated by Margaret Tedesco in association with "The Steins Collect," SF Museum of Modern Art
2011 Panel Chair, “The Unwritten, Ill-Begotten Art History of the 1960s and 70s”, College Art Association Conference, NYC
2010 Public Lecture, “On Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés,” Museum of Los Gatos CA
2010 Conference Paper, "When Feminists Say Yes," College Art Association Conference, Chicago
2009 Panel, “On Early Man on a Modern Road," l’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA), Marseille
2009 Public Lecture, "From Archival Impulse to Professional Identity," The Society for Photographic Education Conference, CA
2009 Public Lecture, "Re-Framing History," with Professor Emile Devereaux, The American Corner, Podgorica Montenegro
2008 Public Lecture, “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women," Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin
2008 Panel Chair, “In the Public’s Interest: An Updated Approach to Public Art," San José State University
2008 Conference Paper, “The Spectacle as Spatial Allegory in Contemporary Art," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia
2008 Curatorial Lecture, “Cross-Cultural Curatorial Practice," For the course Global Cultures, prof. Tarek El-Ariss, New York University
2007 Curatorial Interview Part 1 and Part 2, Radio Tanya
2007 Curatorial Interview with Zeffrey Throwell for "Frank Prattle," Neighborhood Public Radio
2007 Curatorial Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
2007 Panel Lecture (with Isabelle Massu and Tarek El-Ariss), SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Conference Paper, “Danger Box, or, Adventures in das Umwelt," Event Structures, organized by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, Center for Design Research, Copenhagen
2007 Curatorial Lecture, Royal College of Art, London
2006 Curatorial Interview, Radio Grenouille
2006 Public Lecture, “Theory + Practice Panel," San José State University
2006 Curatorial Lecture, “Not Given: Soit dit en passant," Digitales: Conference on Women’s Activism and New Media, Constant, Brussels
2005 Public Lecture, “On Sound and Image," La Compagnie Contemporary Art Center and the Camargo Foundation, Marseille
2001 Public Lecture, “Inter-Arts," Panel on Interdisciplinarity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 Conference Paper, “Ben Vautier in the Age of the World Picture," College Art Association Conference, Chicago
1999 Public Lecture, “Reflections on her Qualities," Symposium in Memory of Christine Tamblyn, SF Camerawork
1998 Conference Paper, “Hysteria Photographica," Visible Evidence Conference, San Francisco
1998 Conference Paper, “The Performative Moment," College Art Association Conference, Toronto
1998 Conference Paper, “Flaunting Inversion," Visual and Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester
1998 Panel Chair, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester
1998 Conference Paper, “Coding as a Gay Sensibility," Aesthetics and Politics Conference, Duke University
2020 Organizer and Moderator, "Art School Confidential," roundtable with Carol Becker, Dewey Crumpler, John Priola and Gordon Knox, Brooklyn Rail
2019 Book Presentation with Constance M. Lewallen, CCA Curatorial Research Bureau at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2019 Book Presentation with Constance M. Lewallen, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
2019 Book Presentation with Constance, M. Lewallen and Ted Mann, Berkeley Art Museum
2018 Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, with Constance M. Lewallen, in conjunction with the exhibition of Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor, curated by Ted Mann
2018 Schaulager, Basel, On "Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts," with Constance M. Lewallen
2018 Conference Paper, College Art Association, Panel on Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging, Los Angeles
2017 Conference Paper and Panel Chair, IAWIS, Lausanne
2017 Conference Paper: Installations, a phenomenological and cognitive approach, Langarts, Sorbonne, Paris
2016 Conference Paper, European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference, Rennes
2015 Workshop, The Center for Photographic Art, PIE Lab, Carmel CA
2015 Conference Paper, "The Diorama Effect: What If We Begin the History of Photography Before Photography?" at the 6th International Conference on the Image, UC Berkeley
2014 Conference Paper, "The Magic Lamp and the Gazomètre: Reading the1825 Paris Diorama," The Enlightened Image," Université de Québec à Montréal
2013 Conference Paper, Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from the Arab World, University of California, Santa Cruz CA
2013 Dialogue with Constance Lewallen on Double Blind by Sophie Calle and Greg Shepard, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco
2013 Conference Paper, “On the Site of Her Own Exclusion: Theorizing A Queer Feminist Art History from Yael Bartana’s "…and Europe Will Be Stunned,” Canadian Art History Association Conference, Montreal
2012 Public Lecture, “Notes from an Excavation at the Arab Image Foundation,” Hollins University, Roanoke VA
2012 Public Lecture, “Site Specific, Elsewhere: The Diorama in Contemporary Art,” Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
2012 Public Lecture, “The Diorama as Political Landscape Circa 1825,” Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
2011 Public Lecture on Bay Area Avant-Garde and Christine Tamblyn, The Living Room, curated by Margaret Tedesco in association with "The Steins Collect," SF Museum of Modern Art
2011 Panel Chair, “The Unwritten, Ill-Begotten Art History of the 1960s and 70s”, College Art Association Conference, NYC
2010 Public Lecture, “On Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés,” Museum of Los Gatos CA
2010 Conference Paper, "When Feminists Say Yes," College Art Association Conference, Chicago
2009 Panel, “On Early Man on a Modern Road," l’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA), Marseille
2009 Public Lecture, "From Archival Impulse to Professional Identity," The Society for Photographic Education Conference, CA
2009 Public Lecture, "Re-Framing History," with Professor Emile Devereaux, The American Corner, Podgorica Montenegro
2008 Public Lecture, “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women," Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin
2008 Panel Chair, “In the Public’s Interest: An Updated Approach to Public Art," San José State University
2008 Conference Paper, “The Spectacle as Spatial Allegory in Contemporary Art," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia
2008 Curatorial Lecture, “Cross-Cultural Curatorial Practice," For the course Global Cultures, prof. Tarek El-Ariss, New York University
2007 Curatorial Interview Part 1 and Part 2, Radio Tanya
2007 Curatorial Interview with Zeffrey Throwell for "Frank Prattle," Neighborhood Public Radio
2007 Curatorial Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
2007 Panel Lecture (with Isabelle Massu and Tarek El-Ariss), SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Conference Paper, “Danger Box, or, Adventures in das Umwelt," Event Structures, organized by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, Center for Design Research, Copenhagen
2007 Curatorial Lecture, Royal College of Art, London
2006 Curatorial Interview, Radio Grenouille
2006 Public Lecture, “Theory + Practice Panel," San José State University
2006 Curatorial Lecture, “Not Given: Soit dit en passant," Digitales: Conference on Women’s Activism and New Media, Constant, Brussels
2005 Public Lecture, “On Sound and Image," La Compagnie Contemporary Art Center and the Camargo Foundation, Marseille
2001 Public Lecture, “Inter-Arts," Panel on Interdisciplinarity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 Conference Paper, “Ben Vautier in the Age of the World Picture," College Art Association Conference, Chicago
1999 Public Lecture, “Reflections on her Qualities," Symposium in Memory of Christine Tamblyn, SF Camerawork
1998 Conference Paper, “Hysteria Photographica," Visible Evidence Conference, San Francisco
1998 Conference Paper, “The Performative Moment," College Art Association Conference, Toronto
1998 Conference Paper, “Flaunting Inversion," Visual and Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester
1998 Panel Chair, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester
1998 Conference Paper, “Coding as a Gay Sensibility," Aesthetics and Politics Conference, Duke University