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DAVID JOSELIT Curriculum Vitae Department of the History of Art Yale University PO Box 208272 New Haven, CT 06520

e-mail: david.joselit@yale.edu TEACHING POSITIONS Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Spring 2010 Yale University, Department of the History of Art Carnegie Professor, 2009Chairman, 2006-2009 Professor, 2003-2009 University of California, Irvine, Department of Art History Associate Professor, 1999-2003 Assistant Professor, 1995-1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Visiting Lecturer, 1995 Harvard University, Tutorial Instructor, 1995 MUSEUM POSITIONS The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Curator, 1983-1989 EDUCATION Ph.D., Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, 1989-1991

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A.B. magna cum laude, Fine Arts, Harvard College, 1981 HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2002 Clark Art Institute Fellowship, 2001-2 UCI Humanities Center Grant, 1998-9 UCI Humanities Grant, 1995-96 UCI Diversity Grant, 1995-6 Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, 1994-95 The Agnes Mongan Fellowship in Art History, 1993-94 Mellon Fellowship for Preliminary Dissertation Study, 1993 Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, 1993 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University, 1992, 1993 National Merit Scholarship, 1977-1981

PUBLICATIONS Single Author Books Feedback: Television Against Democracy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007) American Art Since 1945 (London: Thames and Hudson, World of Art Series, 2003) Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (Cambridge: MIT Press, October Books Series, 1998) Chapter 4, The Self Readymade, translated into Italian, as Lio come readymade, in Stefano Chiodi, ed, Marcel Duchamp (Milano: Electa, 2009)

Joselit, page Multiple Author Books

Contributing Author, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, second edition (London: Thames and Hudson, 2011)

Book Chapters Citizen Cursor, in Beth Hinderliter, William Kaizen, Vered Maimon, Jaleh Mansoor, and Seth McCormick, eds, Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009): 153-171 Touching Pictures: Toward a Political Science of Video, in Stan Douglas and Christopher Eamon, eds, Art of Projection (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2009): 111-123 The Artist Readymade: Marcel Duchamp and the Socit Anonyme, in Jennifer Gross, ed, The Socit Anonyme: Modernism for America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006): 33-43 Dadas Diagrams, in Leah Dickerman, ed, with Matthew S. Witkovsky, The Dada Seminars (Washington: The National Gallery of Art; New York: D.A.P., 2005): 221-239. Reprinted in German in Susanne Leeb, editor, Materialitt der Diagramme: Kunst und Theorie (Berlin: b_books Verlag, 2012), 33-60 Eating and Dreaming: Robert Whitmans 1960s Happenings, in Robert Whitman Retrospective, (New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 2003): 44-58 Voices, Bodies, and Spaces: The Art of Jenny Holzer, principal essay in Jenny Holzer (London: Phaidon Press, 1998): 42-77 Mark Morrisroes Photographic Masquerade, in Deborah Bright, ed., The Passionate Camera (London: Routledge, 1998): 195-203 Collaborations Editor for Digital Art, a special issue of OCTOBER magazine, OCTOBER 138 (Fall 2011) A Lecture on Reenactment, keynote speech for the conference, Our Literal Speed, performed by Mary Ellen Carroll as her project, Being David Joselit, April 30, 2009, which was described in Mary Ellen Carroll, No. 13 Being David Joselit

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(You dont know how to ask a question or perhaps, I just dont know how to answer.), Art Lies no. 62 (Summer 2009): 18-21 Editor of International Television, a special cluster of articles for OCTOBER magazine, including, Joselit, Introduction: Markets and Networks, and Joselit and Rachel Harrison, A Conversation with Peter Fend, OCTOBER 125 (Summer 2008) Late Night Legal Formalities, (with Gareth James), Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, September 9-16, 2006 [reviewed in artforum.com] Journal Articles and Essays Nam June Paiks video ecologies, [drawn from Feedback: Television Against Democracy] in Television, de- inter- trans(Seoul: Nam June Paik Museum, 2012), 54-83 Painting Travesty, Whitney Biennial 2012 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; distributed by Yale University Press, 2012), 34-37 Last Laugh, in Johanna Burton and Elisabeth Sussman, Sherrie Levine: Mayhem (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; distributed by Yale University Press, 2012),161-165 What to Do with Pictures, OCTOBER 138 (Fall 2011), 81-94. Truth or Dare: The Art of Witnessing, Artforum, v. 50, n.1 (September 2011), 312-317 Jutta Koether: Demons for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children, in Sabine Breitwieser and steirischer herbst, eds, Utopia and Monument (Vieena: Springer Wien/New York, 2011), 186-193 Signal Processing: On Abstraction Then and Now, Artforum, v. XLIX, n. 10 (Summer 2011), 356-361; 430 Do Images Have a Gender? in Zoya Kocur, ed, Global Visual Culture: An Anthology (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 57-64 Painting in and Out, in Jutta Koether: The Thirst (Stockholm: Moderna Museet; London: Koenig Books, 2011), 21-23

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Feedback, in Changing Channels: Art and Television 1963-87, ed. by Matthias Michalka, (Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig; Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Knig, 2010), 67-78 Platforms, in Stefano Chiodi and Domitilla Dardi, eds, Space: From MAXXIs Collections of Art and Architecture (Milan: Electa, 2010), 266-273 Touch to Begin, in Eric Banks, ed, Rachel Harrison: Museum with Walls (New York: D.A.P., 2010), 186-199 Queer Voices, in Ingrid Schaffner, Queer Voice (Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2010), 14 Painting Beside Itself, OCTOBER 130 (Fall 2009), 125-134; reprinted in Terry R. Myers, Painting; Documents of Contemporary Art (London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), pp. 218-223 The Subjecters, in The Subjecters; Thomas Hirschhorn (Madrid: Casa Encendida, 2009), 49-55, reprinted in Thomas Hirschhorn: Its Burning Everywhere (Mannheim: Kunsthalle, Manheim, 2011), 78-80 Institutional Responsibility: The Short Life of Orchard, Grey Room 35 (Spring 2009), 108-115 Profile, Texte zur Kunst (March 2009), 141-144 The Standards of Living [on architectural exhibitions in 2008], Artforum v. 47, n. 4 (December 2008): 288-9 Representative Governance, Artforum v. 47, n. 3 (November 2008): 99-100 Image Explosion: Global Readymades, in Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe, Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008), pp. 50-60 Market Dissent [response to a questionnaire regarding the Iraq War], OCTOBER 123 (Winter 2008): 86-89 All Tomorrows Parties, Artforum v. 46, n. 6 (February, 2008): 81-84 Speedily Dispatched: On Images and Sovereignty, Artforum v. 45, n. 7 (March 2007): 89-90

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No Exit: Video and the Readymade, OCTOBER 119 (Winter 2007), pp. 37-45 Surface Vision, in Nicholas Baume, ed, Super Vision (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 170-175 Public Image, Ltd., Artforum, v. 45, n. 1 (September 2006), 113-14 Molds and Swarms, in Helen Molesworth, ed., Part Object Part Sculpture (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts and The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005): 156-165 Navigating the New Territory: Art, Avatars, and the Contemporary Mediascape, Artforum, v. 43, n. 10 (Summer 2005): 276-279 Terror and Form, Artforum, v. 43, n. 5 (January 2005), 45-6 Information Man [Jon Kesslers Global Village Idiot], Artforum, v. 43, n. 1 (September 2004), 49 Inside the Light Cube: Pierre Huyghes Streamside Day Follies and the Rise of Video Projection, Artforum, v. 42, n. 7 (March 2004): 154-159 Commanding View, Artforum v. 42, n. 5 (January 2004): 45 Thomas Eggerers Anti-Gravitational Painting, in Thomas Eggerer Atrium (Braunschweig: Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2003), 49-51 An Allegory of Criticism, October 103 (Winter 2003): 3-13 Yippie Pop: Abbie Hoffman, Andy Warhol and 60s Media Politics, Grey Room #8 (Summer, 2002): 62-79 A Tale of the Tape: Radical Software, Artforum (May 2002): 152-155; 196; anthologized in Tanya Leighton, ed, Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader (London: Tate in association with Afterall, 2008), 220-227 Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Artforum (January, 2002): 135-136 Openings: Thomas Eggerer Artforum (October, 2001): 148-149

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Surface Histories: The Photography of James Welling, Art in America (May 2001): 136-143 The Video Public Sphere, Art Journal, volume 59, number 2 (Summer 2000):47-53 * Planet Paik, Art in America, v. 88, n. 6 (June 2000): 72-79 Notes on Surface: toward a genealogy of flatness, Art History, volume 23, number 1 (March 2000): 19-34 * Kinesthetic Capital: Glen Seators Three, in Glen Seator: Three (Los Angeles: Gagosian Gallery, 1999): 33-36 Bio-Collage in der amerikanischen Kunst neunziger Jahre [Bio-Collage in American in White Fire; Flying Man: Amerikanische Basel (Basel: Offentliche Kunstsammlung, der achtziger und Art of the 80s and 90s, Kunst 1959-1999 in 1999): 166-173

Of War and Remembrance [Simon Leungs Surf Vietnam], Art in America, May 1999: 142-145 Moguls on Main Street [Disney Architecture], Art in America, January 1999: 50-53 Between Objects and Actions, Art in America, November 1998: 86-91;144 Poetics of the Drain [Robert Gober Installation at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art], Art in America, December 1997: 64-71 Exhibiting Gender, Art in America, January 1997: 36-39 Burroughss Virology, Art in America, November 1996: 94-99 Object Lessons [on Reconsidering the Object of Art: 19651975, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art], Art in America, February 1996: 68-71; 107 Neil Jenney; Natural Rationalism [exhibition brochure] (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994): unpaginated "Looking for Love: A Reading of Apartment Zero," in Whitney Davis, ed., Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1994): 271-284. Published simultaneously in The Journal of Homosexuality, volume 27, numbers/2 1994 *

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"Mary Heilmann," Flash Art, October 1994 [Excerpt from "Mary Heilmann's Embodied Grids," in Mary Heilmann: A Survey (Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 1990)]: 69-71 "Readymade Again: On Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns," Reading Things (London: SightWorks, 1993): 54-70 "Buying In: Politics, Consumption, Apathy," in Brian Boigon, ed., Culture Lab 1 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993): 137-144 "Marcel Duchamp's Monte Carlo Bond Machine," October 59, Winter 1992: 8-26 * "photograph - institution - self," in Marysia Lewandowska (London: The Photographer's Gallery, 1992): unpaginated "Independent Means," [essay on the Independent Group], Art in America, December 1991: 52-55 "Projected Identities," Art in America, November 1991 "The Postwar Product; The ICA's Department of Design in Industry," in DISSENT: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston (Boston: The ICA, distributed by Northeastern University Press, l985): 94-105. Reprinted in Richard Hertz and Norman M. Klein, eds., Twentieth Century Art Theory; Urbanism, Politics, and Mass Culture (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, l990): 357-369 "Censorship is Regulation," Agni 31/32, reprinted in Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective, edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman, Alice A. Jardine, Ruth Perry and Carla Mazzio (Boston: Agni, l990): 75-77 "Mind over matter; Tony Oursler and Ericka Beckman master the politics of art," Boston Phoenix, September 7, l990: Section 3, 9 "Body (Im)Politic," Boston Phoenix, August 10, l990: Section 3, 1;12 "Public Art and the Public Purse," Art in America, July 1990: 142-151; 183 "The Power of the Portraitist [Peter Hujar]," Art in America, September 1990: 180-183; 211

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Africa Rising," Art in America, October 1990: 160-161 "[Jenny] Holzer: Speaking of Power," Art in America, October 1990: 155-157 "Report from San Diego; I. Living on the Border; II. Lessons in Public Sculpture," Art in America, December 1989: 120-135 "Saying the Unspeakable," Utopia Post Utopia (Boston and Cambridge: The ICA and MIT Press, l988): 68-81 Robert Mapplethorpes Poses, in Janet Kardon, ed., Robert Mapplethorpe; The Perfect Moment (Philadelphia: The ICA, 1988): 19-21 "Investigating the Ordinary," Art in America, May l988: 148-155 "The British Edge: In the Galleries," The British Edge (Boston: The ICA, l987): 5-10 "Report from Lisbon; Portugal: The Younger Generation," Art in America, September 1987: 19-23 "Wrinkles in Time; Mark Tansey," Art in America, June l987: 106111 "Richard Milani, Mark Innerst, Mark Tansey," Flash Art, May l987: 100-101 Interviews with St. Clair Cemin, Tim Ebner, Connie Hatch, Tishan Hsu, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Tony Labat, Stephen Prina, The Starn Twins, Philip Taaffe, in THE BINATIONAL: American Art of the Late 80s (Boston: The ICA and the Museum of Fine Arts, 1988) "Modern Leisure," in Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture (Boston and Cambridge: The ICA and MIT Press, l986): 70-89 "Cumulus," Parkett, Number 7, l986: 114-116 "The Post-War House," Arts and Architecture, Housing Issue, Volume 3, Number 3, 1984: 34-37; 80

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Larte al tempo dei Media, [interview conducted by Francesco Casetti] in Francesco Casetti, ed, Larte al tempo dei media; Profili e tendenze della scena artistica italiana (Milano: Postmedia Srl, 2012), 185-18= Nicols Guagninis The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegn, Artforum, v. 50, n.1 (September 2011), 87-88 Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization, (editor and participant with Barry Flood, Alexander Nagle, Alessandra Russo, Eugene Wang, Christopher Wood, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan, OCTOBER n. 133 (Summer 2010), 3-19 Open Question: Hans Haackes Weather or Not, Artforum v. XLVIII, n. 7 (March 2010): 101 Panelist, Guggenheim Museums Asian Art Council Symposium, Part 2: Asian Art in Context: A Nation-Based, Inter-Asia, or International Paradigm? Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, v. 7 n. 4 (July 2008) Richard Serra, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artforum, v. 46, n. 2 (October 2007): 362-3 Matthew Barney, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artforum, v. 45, n. 1 (September 2006): 365 Thomas Hirschhorn, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston/Gladstone Gallery, New York, Artforum, v. 44, n. 7 (March 2006): 284-286 Apocalypse Not, [review of Whitney Biennial, 2004], Artforum, v. 42, n. 9 (May 2004): 172-173; 233 Ann Reynolds; Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere [book review], Art Bulletin, v. LXXXV, n. 3 (September 2003): 620-21 Moderator and Participant, The Mourning After: A Roundtable, Artforum, v. 41, n. 7 (March 2003): 206-211; 267-270 Sam Durant, Artforum, v. 41, n. 5 (January 2003): 131-2 Participant in a roundtable, The Present Conditions of Art Criticism, October 100; Obsolescence; A Special Issue (Spring 2002): 200-228

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Gabriel Orozco, Artforum, v. 39, n. 1 (September 2000): 173174 Crows Nest [Interview with Thomas Crow], Artforum, v. 38, n. 10 (Summer 2000): 41-42 Biocollage, [a symposium on biotechnology and art], Art Journal, v. 59, n. 3 (Fall 2000): 44-60 Teaching Feminism: A Questionnaire, Documents (Winter/Spring 2000): 29 Cildo Meireles, Artforum v. 38, no. 6 (February 2000): 116 Contingency Plan [Review of Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark], Artforum v. 37, no. 9 (May 1999): 31-32 Ring of Fire: Interview with Joe Lewis and Yong Soon Min, Art Journal, volume 57, number 4 (Winter 1998): 86-89 Beyond Denial [review of Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts, 1986-1993 by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe], Art + Text, n. 54, May 1996: 28-29 "Duchamp's Legacy" [book review of Postmodernism and the EnGendering of Marcel Duchamp by Amelia Jones], Art in America, September 1994: 35-37 "Debra Bloomfield at the Matrix gallery, University Art Museum," [exhibition review], Art in America, February 1992: 126-127 "Carlota Duarte at the Artists Foundation Gallery at CityPlace," [exhibition review], Art in America, September l990: 201-202 "Jeff Wall at Marian Goodman," [exhibition review], Art in America, January 1990: 153 "James Coleman at the List Visual Arts Center (MIT)," [exhibition review], Art in America, November 1989: 203

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

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Panelist, All A Are Not B: On Diagrams, Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, April 12, 2012 Organizer and Moderator, Women Make Modern, Yale University, April 5-6, 2012 Populations, School of Architecture, Princeton University, March 29, 2012 Culture Now: Thomas Eggerer and David Joselit, ICA, London, March 2, 2012 Beyond Repetition: Marcel Duchamps Readymades, Miami Art Museum, February 18, 2012 Panelist, Artist, Critic, Canon: Critical Approaches to Art History After Levine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 15, 2011 The Scarce and the Saturated, Eikones Conference, Welterzeugung durch Bilder, University of Basel, November 18, 2011 What to do with Pictures, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, November 4, 2011 Seminar for Graduate Students, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 27, 2011 Nam June Paik and the Three Ages of Video, keynote lecture, Television De-Inter-Trans, Nam June Paik Center International Symposium, Seoul, Korea, October 7-8, 2011 (lecture, October 8) Participant, Abstraction Seminar II, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 30, 2011 Co-organizer and Participant, States of Emergency: Objects as Agency circa 1970, Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 1516, 2011 Witness, in the panel, Can Art Influence World Transformation?, arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22, 2011 Touching Pictures, in Mark Morrisroe: Photographic Process and Psychic Structure, Artists Space, New York, April 16, 2011 Panelist, The Crisis in Art History, College Art Association Conference, New York, February 9, 2011

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Painting Stripped Bare, in Das Feld der Malerei, a symposium at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, November 13, 2010; also given at the Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, November 2, 2010 Against Meaning, Cullinen Lecture Series, Rice School of Architecture, Houston, October 7, 2010; Rosen Lecture in Modern Art, Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 2011 Art in an Age beyond Content: the Inevitability of Camp, Cologne Conference; International Film & Fernesehfestival, Cologne, Germany, October 29, 2010 The Scarce and the Saturated, in Further Thoughts on the Twisted Pair, a symposium at the Andy Warhol Museum to mark the exhibition Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol, September 11-12, 2010; and at Artistic Practice and Theory in Modern Art, Goethe-Universitt, Frankfurt/Main, November 19, 2010 Falling Matthew Barney, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland June 23, 2010; seminar with the Eikones Project, Basel, June 24, 2010 WITNESS: Spectatorship in Action, The Interdisciplinary Seminar, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, April 19, 2010 Info COMBAT (panel talk), Contemporary Photography Forum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 14, 2010 Theoretical: David Joselit in Conversation with Jutta Koether, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York, March 31, 2010 Response to Simon Leung on Duchamps Etant donns, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, March 22, 2010 Double Vision: Repetition, Reuse, and the Remake, The Stan Brakhage Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 13, 2010 STATES of FORM, Kirk Varnedoe Lectures, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU: Against Meaning, February 4, 2010; Governing Images, February 16, 2010; Plug-ins, March 3, 2010 Touch to Begin Rachel Harrison and Contemporary Sculpture, Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, November 17, 2009

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Invited Respondent, Writing Art History: Reading and Writing, The Courtauld Institute, London, November 13-14, 2009 Panelist, The Future is History, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, November 12, 2009 States of Form, Invited Speaker, 10th Korean Association for History of Modern Art International Symposium: Methodologies of Art History in a Transcultural Era: Centering on Discussions between Art History and Visual Culture, Seoul, Korea, October 24, 2009 Paik in Networks, Nam June Paik Center, Seoul, Korea, October 22, 2009 The Laws of Images, in The Power of Art, a conference at the Drawing Center, New York City, July 11, 2009 Platform, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 18, 2009 Time Batteries, Light Industry, Brooklyn, April 8, 2009 Recessional Aesthetics, a conversation with Hal Foster at X space, New York, March 26, 2009 Mapplethorpes Beauty, Keynote lecture for Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe and Censorship 20 Years Later, Institute o Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) February 12-13, 2009 Market as Medium, in the symposium Postwar Art and the New York Contemporary Art Market, Yale University Art Gallery, October 3-4, 2008 Reenactment, Keynote Address, Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC), New Orleans, September 26, 2008; Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, November 19, 2008; Center for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, November 21, 2008; Courtauld Institute Research Forum, December 9, 2008; Yung Wing Lecturer, Yale Program at Peking University, March 10, 2009 Panelist, Identity, Engagement, Judgment: Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg Then and Now, The Jewish Museum, New York, May 15, 2008

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Feedback: Television Against Democracy: David Joselit in Conversation with Caroline Jones, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, March 19, 2008 Interview with Tino Sehgal, and paper, On Being a Readymade, in Our Literal Speed, a conference at the ZKM in Karlsruhe Germany, February 29-March 2, 2008 Co-organizer and panelist, Building the Future: The University as Architectural Patron, Yale University, January 25-26, 2008 Panelist, Mirror, Mirror: Creative Self-Invention in a Televisual World, Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, November 4, 2007 Markets and Media, Courtauld Institute of Art, London [Research Forum], October 18, 2007 Art and Life: Toward an Ethics of Images, Bryn Mawr Visual Culture Seminar, October 3, 2007; Whitechapel Gallery, London [Big Ideas Series], October 17, 2007; Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, November 9, 2007; Craig Owens Memorial Lecture, University of Rochester, November 29, 2007; University of Oregon, Eugene, May 22, 2008 Barneys Life: A Mythology of the 21st Century? and Object and Myth, panel contributions at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, July 27-28, 2007 Moderator, The City as Artists Laboratory, a panel at the Museum of Modern Art, July 12, 2007 Mirroring and Molds: The Johns Theory of the Readymade, in Jasper Johns: The First Decade; Public Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2007 The Fluxus Bio-readymade, in Between Object and Event: Beuys and Fluxus in Context, a symposium at Harvard University, April 13, 2007 Facing Pictures: Art, Politics and the Avatar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 13, 2007 Picture Personae, Harvard University, March 8, 2007 Touching Pictures, in Virtualities: Contemporary Art between Fact and Fiction, a panel convened by T.J. Demos and Margaret

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Sundell, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 16, 2007 Do Images Have a Gender? The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts, a conference at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 26-27, 2007 On Being a Readymade, Work in Progress Talk, Yale University, November 7, 2006 Touching Pictures: Toward a Political Science of Video, in The Art of Projection: A Symposium on the Cinematographic and Art, organized by Stan Douglas and Christopher Eamon, Hamburger Bahnhof and Kino Arsenal, Berlin, October 27-29, 2006 Participant, The Short History of Contemporary Art, a colloquium convened by Richard Meyer and Michael Lobel, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 23-24, 2006 Toms Harris Visiting Lectureship, University College, London: Feedback: The Network Object, March 6, 2006; Citizen-Cursor, March 9, 2006 Dadas Diagrams, Scorched Earth editorial offices, New York City, January 8, 2006 No Exit: The Readymade and Video, Part Object Part Sculpture Symposium, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, November 18, 2005 Feedback: Art, Television, Politics, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, October 24, 2005; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, November 9, 2005 Co-organizer and Moderator with Christopher Wood, Art in a Networked Society: Conversations with Katherine Hayles, Lev Manovich and Bernhard Siegert, Yale University, September 30, 2005 Scanning Martin, Agnes Martin Symposium, Dia: Beacon, October 3, 2005 Panel Participant, The Impulse to Abstraction, Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, New York, June 29, 2005 Tourism or Navigation? talk in the panel, Identity or Standardization? moderated by Serge Guilbaut in New Policies

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for Cultural Tourism, Fundaci Caixa Catalunya, La Pedrera, Barcelona, May 27, 2005 The Artist Readymade, UCLA, Department of Art History, March 9, 2005 Scanning History, Art History and the Moving Image, Part 2, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, January 21-22, 2005; Stanford University American Studies Colloquium, March 8, 2005 Citizen-Cursor, Yale School of Architecture, November 11, 2004 Television Ecologies: Visual Culture and Commercial Art, The Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative, USC, November 5, 2004 Participant, Art History and the Moving Image, Clark-Getty Colloquium, Clark Art Institute, October 21-22, 2004 Respondent, Critical Studies Program Symposium, Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, May 27, 2004 Primary Organizer, Empire/Globe: Art in International Networks, April 9 and 10, 2004 Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University Tuning Out: Psychedelia and Revolution, at the symposium, Art in Revolution/Art after Revolution, University of Michigan, September 6, 2003; X-Screen Conference, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, February 29, 2004; Northwestern University, March 8, 2004; Works In Progress Lecture, Yale University, April 27, 2004 Richard Hamilton and Pop, British Art Center lunch-time talk, Yale University, March 30, 2004 Jasper Johnss Devices: The Readymade in Pop, at the symposium, Art, Architecture and Film in The First Pop Age, Princeton University, November 15-16, 2002 Split Screens: Duchamps Large Glass and Harry Smiths Mahagonny, in Investigating Mahagonny, a symposium at the Getty Research Institute, May 30, 2002 Radical Software Revanant, The Johns Hopkins University, March 28, 2002

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An Allegory of Criticism: The Strange Career of Michael Shamberg, delivered in Art History and Art Criticism, a symposium at The Getty Research Institute, February 1-2, 2002, University of British Columbia, January 9, 2003 Visiting Speaker, Getty Research Institute Summer Seminar, convened by Nancy Troy and Richard Meyer, June 20, 2001 Co-organizer of Media Pop, a two-day symposium at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, April 6-7, 2001 Blank Gestures, delivered in Robert Rauschenberg Combines: Painting + Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 17, 2001 Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle in 60s Media Activism, delivered in the political, the ethical, the aesthetic, and the spectacle, a panel at the University of California, San Diego, January 19, 2001 Toward an Epistemology of Television, Anita Glass Lecture, Brown University, November 10, 2000; University of California, Santa Barbara, May 9, 2001 Yippie Pop: Abbie Hoffman, Andy Warhol and 60s Media Politics, delivered at Dartmouth College, March 5, 2002, the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, February 12, 2002; Media Pop, Getty Research Institute, April 7, 2001 and in Systems Theory and the Visual Arts, a panel at Thread Waxing Space, New York Exhibition Walkthrough for The Perfect Moment, Santa Monica Museum of Art, June 3, 2000 Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness, Columbia University, Art History Department, February 24, 2000; Yale University, Department of Art History, January 20, 2000 What is an Object? The Belated Career of the Readymade, delivered at Methods of Understanding in Art and Science: The Case of Duchamp and Poincar, Harvard University, November 6, 1999, also at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 27, 2000 Respondent, History Graduate Student Association Third Annual History and Theory Conference, November 14, 1999 Television as the Late Modern Object, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, November 4, 1999

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Bio-collage in American Art of the 80s and 90s, Claremont Colleges, March 2, 1999 Co-Chair with Richard Meyer, of Identity and the Limits of Representation, a double panel at the College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 11 and 13, 1999 Visual Studies in Formation, presentation with Sally Stein and Anne Friedberg for the UCI Humanities Associates, January 26, 1999 Discussant for Brigid Dohertys paper Montage and the Mimetism of Psychotechnics: Berlin Dada, Brecht, Benjamin, The Getty Center, October 9, 1998 Some Notes on Surface, delivered at The Object Inside: Looking Within the Space of Art History, Stanford University, May 1-2, 1998 A Poetics of the Drain: Robert Gobers Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art Historians of Southern California Annual Meeting, Occidental College, November 15, 1997 Mensuration en abyme: Marcel Duchamps Cubism, University of Southern California, March 24, 1997 Mensuration en abyme: Marcel Duchamps Cubism, delivered at Marcel Duchamp and Rethinking the Creative Act, Rice University, March 22, 1997 Reflections on Gay Visuality, Harvard University, March 19, 1997 Gender, Space, and Place, Bag Lunch Series sponsored by Womens Studies, University of California, Irvine, March 13, 1997 Video and the Public Sphere, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, July 25, 1996; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, July 28, 1996; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, July 31, 1996 Artists into Film, a contribution to a panel accompanying the Biennale of Sydney, organized by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, July 27, 1996

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Chair, The Invisible Seventies, a panel at the College Art Association, Boston, February 22, 1996 Video and the Public Sphere, Cranbrook Humanities Symposium, January 26, 1996 Video and the Public Sphere, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, December 14, 1995 Space, Intersubjectivity, and the Readymade in Marcel Duchamp, delivered in Generating Lines & Engendering Figures: A Symposium on and about Marcel Duchamp, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 28, 1995 Panelist, The Body as Experience: The Photographic Images of Arne Zane, Society for Photographic Education - Western Regional Conference, Cal Arts, October 21, 1995 Landscape as Media/Media as Landscape, The Getty Center, October 13, 1995 Co-Curator (with Ewa Lajer-Burcharth) and contributor to Body Sights, a symposium on the occasion of an exhibition by Gary Hill at the Harvard University Art Museums, April 8, 1995 Respondent, "Art in Physical and Mental Space," a panel in "Envisioning Harvard: Art, Thought, Space," March 5, 1994 "Yves Klein, the (Im)Material," Yale University, March 2, 1994 "Buying In: Politics, Consumption, Apathy," Trinity College, Hartford, March 18, 1992 "Buying In: Politics, Consumption, Apathy," delivered in a panel titled "Motion Detectors" at the Culture Lab, University of Toronto, February 10, 1992 Panelist, "Representation, Politics and AIDS," MIT, December 4, l99l Panelist, "Social Control and the Arts; An International Perspective," Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, April 21, 1990 "Frozen Desire," Mapplethorpe and the Body [symposium], The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, September 22, l990

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Guest Curator and moderator with Kathy O'Dell, "Feminism, Performance and Postmodernism," a symposium at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 7-8, 1990 Chair, "The Social and Political Meaning of Montage: 1919-1936," a panel at the College Art Association, New York, February 16, 1990 "Gender and Identity in the Photography of Lucas Samaras," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 15, 1989 Panelist, "Art and Controversy; Historical Perspectives, Current Issues," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., August 10, 1989

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Juror for the Visual Arts Category, Alpert Award in the Arts, 2012 Board Member, Center for Advanced Study in Visual Art (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010Counselor for the C-MAP program at the Museum of Modern Art, February 17-18, 2010; January 31 February 1, 2012 Juror, Alpert Award in the Visual Arts, 2012 Chair, Visiting Committee, Harvard Department of the History of Art and Architecture, 2009-10 Member, Committee on Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009Member, Editorial Board, OCTOBER, 2008Member, Advisory Council, X space, New York City Member, Courtauld Institute Resarch Forum International Advisory Committee, 2008Member, Asian Art Council, Guggenheim Museum, September, 2007 Juror, Lucelia Artists Award, Smithsonian American Art Museum, September 2007

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Juror, Art in General Open Call, New York, 2007 Member, International Advisory Committee for the Prague Biennial, 2004-05 Member, Editorial Board, Art Journal, 1996-2002 Member, Editorial Board, Grey Room Member, College Art Association Reader for: Princeton University Press Theater Journal Routledge Press Yale University Press Cultural Critique Callmann & King, Ltd Cambridge University Press The MIT Press Art Bulletin

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