education:

teaching:

Santa Fe Art Institute, 2005
Roman J. Witt Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 2002
Rhode Island School of Design, 2001
San Francisco State University, 1983-1998
San Francisco Art Institute, 1986, 1988
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, 1986-87
Maryland Institute College of Art, 1984-87
Association of Independent Colleges of Art, NY, 1985
College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA, 1980-81
Vista Community College, Berkeley, 1979-82
Teaching Associate, Mills College, Oakland, 1976

publications/books & anthologies (see also exhibition catalogs):

• Seismic Shift: The Collision of the Art World and the Real World In the Late Twentieth Century (forthcoming)
• Thanks for Sharing! A Resource Book About Collaboration In the Arts & Beyond (forthcoming)
• Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (with Svetlana Mintcheva), The New Press, NY, 2006
• Coded Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott, Hatji Canz (forthcoming)
• ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords 1848-1944, Abbeville Press, NY, 1993 (Trans: French, Japanese)
• ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, Abbeville Press, NY, 1990, Second Edition: 1997 (Trans: French, Japanese, Korean)
• "Visual AIDS," in Disrupted Borders, edited by Sunil Gupta, River Oram Press, London, 1993
• "ArtWorkplace," reprinted in Talkback-Listen: The Visual Art Program at First Bank Systems 1980-1990 by Lynne Sowder and Nathan Braulick, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1989
• "Julian Schnabel" and "LeRoy Neiman-Andy Warhol," in Redact: An Anthology of Art Criticism, edited by Peter Frank, Willis, Locker & Owens, NY, 1984
• "Brechtian Dialectics Applied," in Comings and Goings by Peter D'Agostino, NFS Press, San Francisco, 1982
• Introduction to Jill Scott: Characters of Motion, Straw Man Press, San Francisco, 1981

publications/newspapers, magazines, journals

VILLAGE VOICE (Staff columnist, 1987-94)
Advocate
Aperture
Arena (Spain)
art + architecture
Art + Text (Australia)
Art and Auction
Art Aurea (Germany)
Art in America
Art Journal (College Art Association)
Art Paper
ArtByte
Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum (online)
Artforum
ArtLook (CD-Rom)
ArtNews
ARTS
BT (Japan)
Cahier/Witte de With (Netherlands)
California
California Monthly
Contemporanea
Elle
Esquire (Japan)
Flash Art (Italy)
Glass Art Journal
High Performance
Images & Issues
Le Millenium (Japan)
Live
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal
The Media Channel (online)
New Art Examiner
Newsday
New West
New York Magazine
New York Times
Poz
Print News
San Francisco Bay Guardian
7 Days
Studio International
TalkBack! A Forum for Critical Discourse (online)
Vogue
Wired (Japan)
Wolkenkrazer (Germany)
World Art

publications/exhibition catalogs:

• "Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting," (for the exhibition of the same name), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2001
• "Reflections of an Art Scribe: A Narrative About Public Events," (for the exhibition, Other Voices), Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 1999
• "The Four Questions and Other Pictures," (for the exhibition of the same name by Ken Aptekar), Steinbaum Krauss gallery, New York, 1999
• "Interactivity and Intervention: Peter d'Agostino's Art of Ideas," (for the exhibition, Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99), Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, 1999
• "What Is ada'web?", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998
• "Rinaldo Hopf: Golden Queers," (for the exhibition of the same name), Wessel + O'Connor Gallery, New York, 1998
• "Psyche as site, cite, sight," (for the exhibition Chema Cobo: El laberinto de la brujula), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, 1998
• "Of Luminosity, Accident and Power Sanders," (for the exhibition Stephen Hannock), James Graham & Sons, New York, 1996
• "Fortune 4 in 7 (Lucky) Paragraphs," (for the exhibition Andy Davey: Fortune 4), Art Space, Sydney, Australia, 1996
• "Muntadas: Art & Life in the Information Age," (for the exhibition Des/Aparicions), Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, 1996
• "Meditation on a Landscape," (for the exhibition After Church, After Cole: Stephen Hannock's Oxbow), Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, 1995 (museum tour)
• "Hung Liu: Sensing the Self," (for the exhibition Hung Liu: The Year of the Dog), Steinbaum Krauss, New York, 1994
• "Bodily Presence and Absence," (for the exhibition Daniel Goldstein: Reliquaries), Foster Goldstrom, New York, 1993
• "Decoding Gender," (for the exhibition of the same name), School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, 1992
• "The Body and the Body Politic," (for the Dui Seid retrospective exhibition), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, 1992
• "From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS," (with Thomas Sokolowski), (for the exhibition of the same name), Independent Curators, New York, 1991-1994 (9 museum tour)
• "Mapping A Strategy," (for the exhibition Chema Cobo: Make A Map), Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, 1990
• "Art Against AIDS: Washington, DC," American Foundation for AIDS Research, New York, 1990
• "Subject Meets Object" (for the exhibition Jo Babcock: Low Tech--Pinhole Cameras and Photographs), San Francisco Artspace, 1989
• "Roger Boyce," Carlo Lamagna Gallery, NY, 1987
• "Between Science and Fiction," for the 18th Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 1985
• "Past/Post/Present: 10th Anniversary Show," Association of Artist Run Galleries, NY, 1985
• "Currents: David Ireland," New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 1984
• "San Francisco/Science Fiction," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Otis-Parsons Gallery (Los Angeles), Clocktower Gallery, NY, 1984
• "What's Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Washington, and Oregon," Alternative Museum, NY, 1984
• "About TV," Just Above Midtown, NY, 1983
• "Introduction: Alan Shepp," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, 1982
• "Critic's Choice," Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, 1981
• "Apologia," Union Gallery, San Jose State University, 1981

curator:

• Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2001
• Peter D'Agostino: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, 1999
• Decoding Gender, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, 1992
• From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, (with Thomas Sokolowski), Independent Curators, New York, 1991-1994 (9 museum tour)
• Positive Actions: The Visual AIDS Competition, Clocktower Gallery, DC 37 Union Headquarters, Longwood Gallery (all New York), 1990
• Between Science and Fiction, for the 18th Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1985
• Currents: David Ireland, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 1984
• San Francisco/Science Fiction, SF Art Commission Gallery, Otis-Parsons (Los Angeles), Clocktower (New York), 1984
• About TV, Just Above Midtown, New York, 1983
• N.O. Show, South of Market Cultural Center (San Francisco), Fashion Moda (the Bronx), 1982
• Critic's Choice, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, 1981
• Apologia, Union Gallery, San Jose State University, 1981

lectures, panels:

• "The Artworld, Community and Activism: A Meditation Inspired by the Events of September 11th" (2002: MARCH New York University; APRIL George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Harbor, CA; Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles; Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles; MAY MIT, Cambridge, MA; SEPTEMBER Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco; University of Arizona, Tucson; Santa Fe Art Institute; University of Maryland, Baltimore; OCTOBER Palmer Museum, Penn State Univ, State College, PA; NOVEMBER CARTE/University of Westminster, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England; Polytechnic University, Valencia, Spain; DECEMBER University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• New School University, New York, June 2002 (Censorship in Camoflauge panels co-organized with Antonio Muntadas & Svetlana Mintcheva)
• Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, April 2002
• Goethe Institute, Washington DC, March 2002
• School of Visual Arts, New York, November 2001
• Art Performance Technology/Int'l Sculpture Conference, Pittsburgh June 2001
• American Craft Museum, New York, January 2001
• ThreadWaxing Space, New York, April 2000
• New School University, New York, May 1999, December 2000, Jan-Feb 2002
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 1999
• Cooper Union, New York, May 1999
• Grantmakers in Film, Television and Video/Grantmakers in the Arts, Council on Foundations, New Orleans, April 1999
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, March 1999
• New York University, NY, March 1999
• Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, October 1998
• Sotheby's Institute, NY, June 1998
• Cooper Union (ASCI: Art &Science Collaborations Inc), NY, April 1998
• Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, NY, March 1998, March 1999
• NY Short Film & Video & New Media juror, December 1997
• Aljira, Newark, NJ, December 1997
• Thundergulch, NY, November 1997
• El Escorial Summer Institute (Spain), August 1997
• Art Writing Conference, (San Francisco Art Institute), August 1996
• Yale University, December 1995
• Cyber-Soho/Soho Arts Festival, September 1995
• Threadwaxing Space/NAAO, May 1995
• San Francisco Art Institute, August 1994
• New School for Social Research, New York, March & June 1994
• Williams College, Williamstown, MA, February 1994
• Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, January 1994
• Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, December 1993
• Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, December 1993
• Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, November 1993
• Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, June 1993
• Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, May 1993
• Smithsonian Associates, New York, September 1992
• New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, September 1992
• The Bronx Museum, New York, February 1992
• Drawing Center, New York, June 1991
• Queens Museum, New York, May 1991
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, February 1991
• Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, November 1990, November 1989
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, October 1990
• Cornish Institute, Seattle, October 1990
• WA Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Seattle, Oct 1990
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct, 1990 Dec 1992
• San Francisco Art Institute, June 1990
• Camerawork, San Francisco, June 1990
• Montclair College, Montclair, NJ, May 1990
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, April 1990
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 1990
• Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, January 1990
• State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, January 1990
• School of the Chicago Art Institute, January 1990
• Albright College, Reading, PA, December 1989
• Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, November 1989
• Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 1989
• Ohio State University, Columbus, March 1988, October 1987
• Otis-Parsons, Los Angeles, February 1988
• California Institute of the Arts, February 1988,
• Maryland Institute College of Art, February 1987, April 1986
• Berkeley Art Center, July 1985
• Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, April 1985
• University of California, San Diego, March 1984
• Cape Fear Foundation, Wilmington, NC, May 1982
• School of the Chicago Art Institute, November 1981
• California Institute of the Arts, June 1981

awards, honors & grants:

• Penny McCall Foundation Award in the Visual Arts, for an independent writer/curator, 2001
• Manufacturers Hanover Art/World Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, 1985
• National Endowment for the Arts' Critic's Fellowship, 1981
• National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Hawaii, 1981
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1972