Seminars, Lectures and Presentations
1973 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (presentation)
1974 Panelist, Roberto Rossellini Festival, UCSD
• Panelist, Conceptual Photographic Works, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California
Woman's Eye. UCSD (public lecture and presentation)
1975 • Cooper Union, New York (presentation)
The Image of Female Sexuality in the Movies. UCSD (public lecture)
• Radio interview. KPFK, Los Angeles (interviewer, Clare Spark)
Conceptual Art. Lectures and workshop, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery
• Radio interview. KSDO, San Diego
1976 • Panelist, "Artists Interview Critics." College Art Association annual meeting, Chicago (critic interviewed was Donald Kuspit)
• Panelist, Women and Art. San Diego State University
• Panelist,Women Artists: Life/Work. Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)
• Feminist Studio Workshop, Women's Building, Los Angeles (presentation)
• Radio interview, KSDO, San Diego
• Radio interview, KPFK, Los Angeles
• Panelist, Politics and the Avant-Garde. KPFK radio, Los Angeles
• Discussant, Exhibition of Zairean Art at the LA County Museum. KPFK radio, Los Angeles
• Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California (presentation)
• Panelist, The Social Meaning of Photography. College Art Asssociation annual meeting, Los Angeles
The Artist: Political and Critical. Palomar College, San Marcos, California (lecture and presentation)
1977 • Panelist, Social Criticism and Art Practice. San Francisco Art Institute
• Double X, Los Angeles (presentation)
• Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California (lecture and presentation)
• University of California, San Diego (video presentation)
The Body in Pieces. Society for Photographic Education, Western region annual meeting, Chula Vista, California (lecture)
1978 • Panelist, Radical Practice. Caucus for Marxism and Art, College Art Association annual meeting, New York
One, Two, Three...Many: A Talk on Group Photography. Society for Photographic Education annual meeting, Asilomar, California
• Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (presentation)
• Panelist, What Is the Audience for New Art? California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
• Panelist, Alternative Futures. California College of Arts And Crafts, Oakland
• University of California, Los Angeles (presentation)
The Body in Pieces. National Conference of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media, San Francisco (lecture)
The Body in Pieces. Southern California Women's Caucus for Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) (lecture)
The Body in Pieces. Society for Photographic Education Western Region annual meeting, College of Marin, California (lecture)
• Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California (presentation)
1979 • Panel organizer (with Allan Sekula) Artist and Community in the Context of Social Change.
• Caucus for Marxism and Art. College Art Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
• Symposium participant, Symbolization Conference. University of California, Irvine (lecture)
• Symposium participant, The Idea of the Postmodern: Who Is Teaching It? (with Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Donald Kuspit, Jan van der Marck) Henry Gallery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle (lecture)
• Symposium participant, Women, Critical Theory, and the Arts. University of California, Irvine (presentation and lecture)
Aspects of Documentary. Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver (lecture)
New Documentary and Its Theory. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (lecture)
• Conference participant, Toward the New Histories of Photography. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (lecture and panel)
The Body in Pieces. University of California, Riverside (lecture)
Photography and Culture. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (lecture)
The Body in Pieces. University of California, Los Angeles. History of Photography Series.
• Panelist, Teaching Photography. Society for Photographic Education Triregional meeting, Asilomar, California
1980 • National Women's Caucus for Art annual meeting, New Orleans (presentation)
The Body in Pieces. Caucus for Marxism and Art, College Art Association annual meeting, New Orleans
• University of British Columbia (video presentation)
The Body in Pieces. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (lecture)
• Cooper Union, New York (presentation)
• Panelist, Theoretical Concepts in Feminist Art. A.I.R. Gallery, New York
• New York University, Department of Cinema Studies (video presentation)
• University of Washington, Seattle (lecture and workshop)
• Track coordinator, Photography and Politics panels, Society for Photographic Education annual meeting, Stevensville, New York
The Body in Pieces. University of British Columbia, Vancouver (lecture)
Round Table on Art and Photography. (with Benjamin Buchloh, Germano Celant, Douglas Crimp), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
• Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (presentation)
• International Center of Photography, New York (series of two lectures)
• Mid-America Art Association annual meeting, Houston (lecture)
• Panelist, "Women, Art, and Criticism." Mid-America Art Association annual meeting, Houston
• Symposium participant, "Television/Society/Art." Sponsored by the Kitchen (New York) and the American Film Institute (Washington, D.C.). New York University and the Kitchen (three panels)
• Panelist, "Is the Personal Political?" Conference on Women, Art, and Society. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• Slade School of Art, University of London (presentation)
• London College of Printing (photographic presentation)
• Jesus College, Cambridge University (video presentation)
1981 • Round Table on Art and Politics (with Avis Rosenberg and Chantal Pontbriand). Centre for the Arts, Banff
• Casa de las Américas, Havana (presentation)
• Participant, Second Latin American Colloquium on Photography. Mexico City (lecture)
Politics, Aesthetics, Ethics: The Bases of Critical Judgment. Society for Photographic Education annual meeting, Asilomar, California (lecture)
• Panelist, Women Artists, Life and Work Since the Women's Movement. Society for Photographic Education annual meeting, Asilomar, California
New Perspectives on Television. Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (screening)
• Panelist, Writing on Video: Toward a Critical Perspective. Anthology Film Archives, New York
• Bennington College, Vermont (video presentation)
Aspects of the New Documentary. Seattle Art Museum (lecture)
• Conference participant, The Art Politik. and/or Gallery and the Cornish Institute of the Arts, Seattle
• Panelist, Feminism and Art in the Seventies. and/or, Seattle
• Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program, New York (presentation)
The Body in Pieces. Ohio State University, Columbus (lecture)
Criticism: Image and Ideology. International Center of Photography, New York (lecture)
The Look of War Photography. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (lecture)
• Minneapolis College of Art (presentation)
• Conference participant, Extended Photography, Vienna Secession and Landesbank International Center of Photography, New York (presentation)
• Panelist, Video and the Culture of Resistance. D-Vision Video Awards Festival, New York
1982 Aspects of the Documentary, the Old and the New. Ryerson Institute of Technology, Toronto (lecture)
• Panelist, Artists. Ideology, Politics. Artists Talk on Art Series, Landmarks Gallery, New York
• Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal (presentation)
• Concordia University, Montréal (presentation)
• Société de Philosophie de Montréal, Université de Montréal (lecture and presentation)
• University of Ottawa (presentation)
The New Documentary. Society for Photographic Education annual national meeting, Colorado Springs (lecture)
• Panelist, Public Policy for the Arts: The Effect on Artists' Lives. SPE annual national meeting, Colorado Springs
• Video workshop co-leader (with Dee Dee Halleck), Dangerous Works Conference, Parsons School of Design, New York
• Participant, Radical Humor Conference, New York University
• Panel organizer and moderator, Art as a Social and Political Practice. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University Twentieth Anniversary MFA celebration, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Panelist, Artists Who Are Critics. A.I.R. Gallery, New York
• Moderator, Books and Freedom. Bookworks: 1982 Conference, Foundation for Today's Art and Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
1983 • Panelist, Television for a Broader Audience. The Kitchen, New York
• Panelist, Public and Private. College Art Association annual meeting, Philadelphia
• Panelist, Photography as Ideology. International Center of Photography and New York University Critical Dialogue Series
• Symposium participant, The Intersection of the Word and the Visual Image. Women's InterArt Center, New York
Video and the Ideology of Everyday Life. Video Viewpoints Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York (presentation)
• Panelist, Women Artists and Political Attitudes. A.I.R. Gallery, New York
The Figure of the Artist, the Figure of the Woman. Festival Andere Avant-Garde, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria (lecture)
• Symposium participant, The Documentary Today. Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Participant, First Baltimore Women's Film and Video Festival. University of Maryland, Baltimore County (presentation)
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (presentation)
• Participant, Round table on Postmodernism (with Fredric Jameson, Craig Owens, Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak) Sponsored by Social Text magazine, New York
• Panelist, Art and Politics (with Jenny Holzer, Benjamin Buchloh, Douglas Crimp et al.), School of Visual Arts, New York
1984 • Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut (presentation)
• Panel organizer and moderator, Cultures of Resistance (with Sara Diamond, Lyn Blumenthal, Craig Owens, Coosje van Bruggen). College Art Association annual meeting, Toronto
• Panelist, Why the Art World Changes (with Edit de Ak, Richard Flood, Lynne Gumpert, Joseph Kosuth) Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Panelist, Art and Politics (with Leon Golub, Carol Duncan, James Scully). Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
Camera as a Weapon (A Talk on a Documentary of Resistance). Photographic Resource Center, Boston
New Documentary Photography. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale (lecture)
A Conversation with Leon Golub. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (public interview)
• Panelist, Documentary in Film, Video, and Photography (with B. Ruby Rich, DeeDee Halleck), Socialist Scholars Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York
• Principal Guest, Art After Postmodernism. Voices program, Channel 4, London
• Participant, Symposium on Criticism (with Jane Gallop, Craig Owens, Peter Wollen). Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Panelist, Video and the New Technologies. A.I.R. Gallery Current Issues Series, New York
• Panelist, Artists' Experience of Censorship. Contemporary Issues of Censorship Series, New York Public Library and Exit Art gallery. Held at the Main Library, 42nd St.
Criticism and Photography. Contribution to the Symposium Exposed and Developed: American Photography in the Seventies. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C.
Shedding the Utopian Moment: The Museumization of Video. Contribution to "Vidéo '84," International Video Conference, l'Université du Québec à Montréal
• Birmingham Art Association, Alabama (presentation)
Video Between Art and Television. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (presentation)
• Participant, Southern Experiment: A Critics' Forum. Emory University, Atlanta. Sponsored by Art Papers
Panelist, Video and the Education of the Un-Artist (with Martha Gever, Catherine Lord, Lyn Blumenthal), College Art Association annual meeting, Los Angeles
1985 • Discussant, The Common Photograph (with Victor Burgin, A. Solomon-Godeau, David Freund, Sally Stein).
• College Art Association annual meeting, Los Angeles
• Panelist, Marxisms and Feminisms (with Mary Kelly, Tom Lawson, May Stevens, Jerry Kearns, Judith Barry). The Marxist School, New York
Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut (lecture)
• University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (photography and video presentations)
• Ontario College of Art, Toronto (presentation)
• York University, Toronto, departments of Art and Social and Political Science (lecture)
• Panelist, An Education in the Arts: Between Privilege and Delusion (with Benjamin Buchloh, Rudolf Baranik, Tim Rollins). History, Conversation, Reminiscence: New Perspectives on Teaching Art. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
• Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (presentation)
• Minneapolis College of Art (seminar)
Video: Between Art and Television. Association of Art Historians (of England) annual meeting, City University of London (lecture)
• Panelist, Central American Crisis: The Human Dimension (with Charles Clements, Mel Rosenthal, Leon Golub). Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University, New York
• University of Vermont, Burlington (presentation)
1986 • Symposium participant, Gender and Visual Representation. Five Colleges Women's Studies Project on Feminism and Difference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (presentation)
Meet the Makers Series: Video Views History. The Donnell Center, New York Public Library (presentation)
• Symposium participant, Tracking the Avant-Garde. (with Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Adrian Piper, Benjamin Buchloh, et al.). School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1987 • Oberlin College, Ohio (presentation and seminar)
• Panelist, The Cultural Public Sphere. Discussions in Contemporary Culture Series (with Thomas Crow, Craig Owens) Dia Art Foundation, New York
• Panelist, Cutting Up Television (with Sherry Millner, Dara Birnbaum, Shu Lea Chang; Micki McGee, moderator) Association of Independent Video and Film. Millennium Film Workshop, New York
• Conference Participant, The Culture of Postmodernism. Graduate Center of the City University of New York (presentation)
• Participant, Video Conference, Second Australian Video Festival. Chauvel Cinema, Sydney (three forums: Women and the Media; Talking about Video and TV: Critical Approaches; and Attention Span: Artists on Video)
• City Arts Institute, Sydney (video presentation)
• The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (photography presentation)
• The Power Lecture, Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney
• City Arts Institute, Sydney (public lecture and screening)
Video Between Art and Television. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. Lecture and presentation in the series Art Historicisms.
Graduate Workshop, University of California, San Diego
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Seminars with Artists
• University of California, Los Angeles (presentation)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (presentation in conjunction with the exhibition "The Arts for Television")
• Visiting artist, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
The Strange Case of Baby S/M: Representation and Woman's Body. Keynote speech, Society for Photographic Education annual national meeting, San Diego (see Honors, Awards and Services to the Field)
The Strange Case of Baby S/M: Representation and Woman's Body. Concordia University, Montréal (lecture)
• Concordia University, Montréal (Visiting Artist presentation)
1988 Talking Terrorism: Ideologies and Paradigms in a Post-Modern World. Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto (video)
• The University of Colorado, Boulder
• State University of New York at Purchase (presentation)
• Panelist, Collusion and Collision: Critical Engagements with Mass Culture. College Art Association annual meeting, Houston
Video Between Art and Television. Layton Lecture Series, Feminist Theory and Art Practice. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (presentation)
• Panelist, The Sixties Through the Eighties, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Los Angeles (presentation)
• Panelist, Ideology and Art, Conference on Anti-Communism: Its History and Consequences. (with Serge Guilbaut, Maren Stange, Andrew Ross). Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• Symposium participant, Marxism and Feminism: Convergence in Art (with Linda Nochlin, Carol Duncan, Eunice Lipton, John Tagg). Sunday Symposium, Whitney Mus.of American Art, New York
1989 • Panelist, Biography/Autobiography and Art (with Jill Johnston, Joan Semmel, Geoff Hendricks, Joan Marter). Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Image Manipulations, Computer Simulations: Some Ethical Considerations. Society for Photographic Education annual national meeting, Rochester
• Respondent to keynote address by Stuart Hall (with Griselda Pollock, John Murdoch, Sarat Maharaj), Association of Art Historians (of England) annual meeting, London Institute, Univ. of London
• Panelist, Re-reading Benjamin: Photography in the Age of Postmodernity (with Michael Newman and Andrew Brighton; Jon Bird, mod.), Assoc. of Art Historians annual meet'g, London Institute, Univ. of London
• Participant, 3rd Annual Arthur S. Penn Photography Symposium,Crosscurrents: Art Images/ Commercial Images (with Robert Sobieszek, Pat Ward Williams, Timothy Murray, Brian Wallis, Marvin Heiferman, John Szarkowski), Cornell University (lecture and panel)
• Panelist, First Amendment and the Arts (with Richard Serra, Patricia Cruz, Samuel Lipman, Kitty Carlisle Hart; Sue Renée Bernstein, mod.). wbai Radio, New York
• Video Meet-the-Makers Series, The Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library (presentation)
• Panel organizer and moderator, Land Mines in the Territory (with the MadHousers, Steve Cagan, Nancy Bless,Gregg Bordowitz), The Map Is Not the Territory, Mid-America College Art Association annual meeting, Cincinnati
• Participant, Postmodernism and Its Discontents (with Homi Bhabha, Douglas Crimp, Michele Wallace; Brian Wallis, mod.) Sunday Symposium, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Panelist, Video Criticism (with Kim Tomczak, Lisa Steele, Gary Kibbins, Richard Fung; Philip Monk, moderator), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• York University, Toronto (presentation)
• University of Western Ontario, London (presentation)
• Conference Participant, The Public's Art/Art in Public Places. The Learning Alliance, New York (lecture)
• Panelist, Representation and the Making of Independent Media History (with Manthia Diawara, Marita Sturken; Louis Massiah, mod.).Visions/Revisions: The Media Arts in Motion, The Media Alliance 10th Annual Conference, Anthology Film Archives, New York
1990 Video between Art and Television. University of British Columbia, Vancouver (presentation) Vancouver Art Gallery (screening)
• Study Circle, Vancouver Art Gallery (4 evenings)
• Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (presentation)
• Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver (4 lectures & presentations)
• Camosun College, Victoria,B.C. (presentation)
If You Lived Here..., Video In (lecture), Vancouver
Recent Developments in Video Theory, Video In (lecture)
• Panelist, Breaking the Codes: Women, Technology and Art (with Dara Birnbaum, Nancy Burson Ellen Sandor; Gretchen Bender, mod.). Shifting Power, Women's Caucus for Art National Conf., New York
• Panelist, Does It Matter Who Owns It? The Politics of the Commercialization of Politics (with Vito Acconci, Alfred Jaar, Louise Lawler; Gary Garrels, mod.). College Art Association annual meeting, New York
• Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University (presentation)
Art at the Palmer, wpsu radio interview (with Charles Garoyan, Randy Plogue; Micaela D'Amato, moderator), University Park, Pennsylvania
• Symposium participant, The Uses of Tradition (with Gilles Peress, Thomas Roma, Larry Sultan; Susan Kismaric, Curator, Dep't of Photography, mod.), in conjunction with the exhibition Photography Until Now. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cultural Politics and the Image. International Center of Photography, New York (lecture). In the series Complete
• Control: The Censorship Agenda,
organized by Julie Ault Cornish Institute of the Arts, Seattle (presentation)
• Port Washington Library, New York (presentation)
Matters of Ownership and Control. Robert B. Mayer Lecture, Andrew W. Mellon Program in Art Objects, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (lecture)
The Suppression Agenda for Art. Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective. Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Cambridge (conference contribution)
• Symposium participant, Art Creating Society. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• Panelist, Exploding the Metaphor: Art and Politics (with Renée Green; Patricia Mathews, mod.). Crossing Boundaries in Feminist History, 8th Berkshire Conference on Women and History, Douglass College, New Brunswick
If You Lived Here..., Seminar in Contemporary Art, University of Cape Town (lecture)
• Community Arts Program (cap), Cape Town (presentation)
• Panelist, Documentary Realism, Weekly Mail Film Festival (with John Higgins, Eve Bertelsen, mod.), University of Cape Town
The Politics of the Image, Centre for African Studies and Adult Education, University of Cape Town (presentation)
• Cultural and Media Studies Department, University of Natal, Durban (presentation)
• Women's Studies department, University of Natal, Durban (presentation)
• Panelist, Infotainment, at The Politics of Film Pleasure Conference, Department of English, University of Cape Town
If You Lived Here...An Instance of Public Art in the United States. Art History Association, Cape Town Branch (presentation)
• NUSAS-Women (National Union of South African Students Women's Group), University of Cape Town (presentation)
Video Between Art and Television, Art Foundation and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (presentation)
• Drama Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (presentation)
IV Foto Bienal. Vigo, Spain (symposium presentation)
• Mediamix, New Brunswick (presentation)
1991 • Correnah Wright Lecture, Mills College, Oakland (presentation)
• Panelist, The Surveillance Paradigm (with Terry Smith, John Greyson; Allan Sekula, mod.) College Art Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
• Panelist, Women and the New Technologies. The Machine Wreckers: The Lady Luddites. The Third Frauen Film Festival, organized by Femme Totale im Revier, Dortmund
• Panelist, Shifting the Spectacle, women's film festival. Harvard University, Women's Studies Department. Part of colloquium series Women, the Arts, and Politics
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (presentation)
Born to Be Sold. Women's Studies Department, Unversity of California, San Diego (presentation)
Paradigms of Homelessness: us and South Africa. San Francisco Art Institute and Camera Works (presentation)
• Department of Communication Colloquium, University of California, San Diego
• Women's Studies Program, University of California, San Diego (presentation)
1992 Women in Photography: A Workshop with Women Photographers. Empire State College, New York
• Panelist, Things Change. Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility annual conference, New School for Social Research, New York
• Panelist, Art and the Public Sphere. Society for Photographic Education annual national meeting, Washington, D.C.
• Participant and moderator in the symposium PPPP: Place-Position-Presentation-Public, organized by Ine Gevers. Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands
• University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (presentation & seminar)
• New York University/ICP Graduate Program in Photography (presentation)
• Russian Union of Art Photographers, Volga River (several talks and seminars)
If You Lived Here... School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis (lecture)
• Christopher Light Lectureship in the Arts. Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. (presentation & seminar)
• Conference Participant, Marxismin the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Panelist, "Video/TV/Bodies: The Battlegrounds. Ideological Wars of the New World Order" (with DeeDee Halleck, Ernest Larsen, Cyrelle Phipps; Joan Braderman, mod.)
• "Art in the Public Sphere" (lecture; co-session with Inez Hedges; Susan Fainer, mod.)
1993 • New York University (presentation)
• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (presentation)
• Panelist, Backlash in Hollywood: Images of Race, Class, and Gender. New York Women in Film & Television Conference (with Lee Grant, Julie Salamon, Jesse Rhines, Leslie Harris; Carol Jenkins, mod.March)
• "Women as Subjects in Russian Photography"Foto/Foto: A Symposium on Russian Photography. Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (presentation)
• Hunter College, New York (presentation)
• "On the Line: WNYC Radio." Discussion with host Brian Lehrer focusing on Rosler's exhibition "Greenpoint: Garden Spot of the World" in In Transit exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Participant, Roundtable on Housing and Community Development organized by the Women and Planning Committee of the American Planning Association Metro Chapter," Parsons School of Design, New York
• "A Practice Based in Reproductive Media." Keynote lecture, Navigations, 4th National Photography Conference, Bristol. Sponsored by Arnolfini and Watershed Media Centre (lecture)
• "Krieg." Symposium at the Forum Stadtpark co-sponsored by the Neue Galerie, Graz (presentation)
• Interview with Annette Beiler on activist art for "The Music Box," ORTF (Austria Radio)
• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (presentation)
1994 • "Women's Bodies and Subjectivity in Russian Photography," Photography Conference, Moscow. Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation (lecture)
• Yale University, New Haven, Graduate Sculpture Department (presentation)
• "States of Loss." Jersey City Museum (with Leon Golub, Catalina Parra, Joe Lewis, Tom Sokolowski; Gary Sangster, mod.)
• "Off the Streets and Into the Studio: Cultural Politics -- Theory and Practice." College Art Association annual national meeting, New York (with A. Amos, M. Schor, P. Williams, M. Wilson; D. Kass, moderator)
• School of Visual Arts, New York (presentation)
• Participant,"The Reading Room Symposium," Glasgow. Sponsored by the Glasgow School of the Arts, Tramway, and Bookworks. (with S. Maharaj, J. Kosuth. T. Eagleton, J. Galloway, N. Papasteariadis, P. Crowther, P. Büchler, et al.)
• Ecole supérieure d'art visuel, Geneva (presentation)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, Teacher's Workshop
• Conference Participant, "The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities," Art Institute of Chicago. Panel , "The Artist as Historical Construct" (with A. Appadurai, P. DuBois, K. Acker, M. Dyson; R. Hartfield, mod.) (Oct. 14-15)
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate departments of Time Arts and Video
• Whitney Museum of American Art, public discussion with the director David Ross
• Whitney Museum of American Art, Artists' Studio Visit (presentation)
1995 • BBC arts programme (interview with reference to WarWorks exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
• Columbia University, Graduate Art Program (presentation)
• Maryland Institute, College of Art (Graduate Photo)(presentation & seminar)
• Panelist, "Issues of Marginalization in the Arts," Wits Technikon (with Ernesto Muñoz, Chile; Brenda Crofts, Australia), Johannesburg
• University of Cape Town, Art History Department(Graduate Photo) (presentation)
• Community Arts Program, Cape Town (Graduate Photo)(presentation)
• University of Cape Town, English Department (Graduate Photo)(presentation)
• University of the Witwatersrand, Visual Art Department, Johannesburg (presentation & seminar)
• Carnegie Mellon, Visual Arts Department (public lecture & presentation)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, conversation with Catherine Lord. Co-sponsored by San Francisco Cameraworks and in conjunction with the exhibition Public Information and the conference Utopia/Dystopia
• "If We Still Lived Here..." Panel contribution to "Outside/In: Ideologies of Homelessness," Univ.of Massachusetts, Amherst (Rethinking Marxism, conf)
• Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2 public seminars in conjunction with the exhibition Women's Work
Symposium in conjunction with exhibitions New Histories and Inside the Visible. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• "Commodified and Decommodified Space in Public Life," Respondent to Margaret Crawford in the series "Public Space: what Is It? Whose Is It? Where Is It?," Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University
• Universidad de Chile (see Workshops)
1996 • "Ideologies of Gender." Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta College of Art. Symposium participant in conjunction with the exhibition "Beyond Perestroika." With Margarita Tupitsyn, Sharon Coe; Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, mod.
• "in/here/out/there: On Habitation and Passage." Princeton University School of Architecture (presentation)
• College Art Association Annual National Meeting, Boston, two panels:
   "Inside the Visible," with Bracha Lichtenberg, Sally Stein; Griselda Pollock, mod.
   "The Interview with the Artist: History, Function,Theory," with Kimerly Rorschach, Niamh O'Laoghaire, Bob Colacelo, Dahn Hiuni; Reva Wolf, mod.
• Syracuse University, Public Lecture and workshop in the Matrilineage series
• "Another Form of Video," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
• " ‘Round Midnight." Symposium. University of Northumbria, Newcastle (lecture)
• (Apr 10) Haus der Kulturen Welt, Kongresshalle, Berlin. Sponsored by NGbK (presentation)
• "City of Women." Panel at (In)visible Cities Conference, organized by Hofstra University, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Columbia University. Columbia University, New York
• "Form Follows Anything." Fargfabriken, Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm
• The Cooper Union, New York (presentation)
• Fundació "La Caixa," Barcelona (presentation)
1997 • Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (presentation)
• "Times Square/USA," Panel at symposium "Times square -- Global, Local," Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University. With Andreas Huyssen, Steven Izenour, Stephen Papson. Barnard College, New York (presentation)
• Museum für Moderne Kunst,Frankfurt (presentation)
• "Post-Documentary?" Eminent Scholars Lecture, Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville (lecture)
• Architecture Association School of Architecture, London (presentation)
• "Airport" symposium, Architecture Association School of Architecture, London Royal Collage of Art, Photography Department, London (presentation)
• Chair, The Role of the Curator (4 sessions), Conference, "Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics," various museum sites, Rotterdam Institute of Fine Art, New York University (presentation)
1998 • Panelist, "Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States," American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
• "Airport" symposium, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
• Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (presentation)
• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (presentation)
 
Teaching Experience

1975 San Diego State University
Art (Women's Studies)
Winter 1977-Fall 1978 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
Photography
Summer 1977 UCSD Visual Arts Department
Film Studies
Spring 1978 UCSD Visual Arts Department
Photo & Media Prod.
Fall 1978 San Francisco Art Institute
Photo, studio & criticism
Fall 1978-Spring 1979 University of California, Irvine
Visiting Instructor, Photo & Media
Winter 1979 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
Advanced Media Seminar
Fall 1979 San Francisco State University
Seminar in Practical Aesthetics
1980 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Visiting Professor of Art, photography & media
1980-1985 Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Assistant Professor of Art, photography and media; critical studies
Spring 1981 The Cooper Union, New York
Advanced Sculpture Seminar
Fall 1981 New York University, Cinema Studies
Video Studies Seminar
Spring 1982 The Cooper Union, New York
Advanced Sculpture Seminar
Spring 1982 School of Visual Arts, New York
Documentary Film Criticism
1982, 1990 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York faculty
Studio and Criticism
1985-1990 Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Associate Professor of Art, photography & media; critical studies
Winter-Spring 1986 UCSD, Visual Arts Department
Visiting Associate Professor, photography & media; critical studies
Spring 1988 UCSD, Visual Arts Department
Visiting Associate Professor
1988 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Member of Cinema Studies Program
video history; critical studies
1990 Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• Professor of Art, photography & media; critical studies
• Fellow, Douglass College
1990 University of Cape Town, English Department
Honours Program, Visiting lecturer
Winter-Spring 1991 UCSD, Department of Communication
Visiting Professor, photography & film; critical studies
1992-1995 Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Director of Graduate Studies, Visual Arts Department
Fall 1995 University of Pennsylvania, Department of Art History
Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Visiting Professor of Contemporary Art (chair's inaugural)
1998-present Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Professor II of Art, photography & media; critical studies
 
Workshops, Residencies and Summer Sessions

1979 Visiting Artist Workshop, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
  Visiting Artist Workshop, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
  Photography workshop, San Francisco Art Institute
1980 Residency and workshop, 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco
  Advanced Media Seminar, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1981 Workshop on Intermedia, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
  Photography and Video Workshop, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester
  Photography and Video Workshop, Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
1982 Critical Studies Workshop, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
  Workshop on Photography, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle
  Getting at the Truth. Photography Workshop, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York Summer workshop
  Intermedia Workshop, School of Fine Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, Summer Session
1983 Visiting Artist residency, University of Colorado, Boulder
1985 Visiting Artist residency in video and photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1986 Residency, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
  Residency, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Residency, UCVideo Electronic Arts Gallery, Minneapolis. Including workshop, "Getting at the Truth"
  Visiting Artist Residency in Video, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1987 Residency in Photography and Video, University of Florida, Tallahassee
  Residency, Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
1990 Residency, Video In Workshop, Vancouver Art Gallery
  Residency, Pennsylvania State University
  Residency, Duke University
1993-94 Critical Workshop in Video and Film, Whitney Independent Study Program
1995 University of Chile, week-long Critical Workshop in Video, in conjunction with Bienal de Chile
1996 Residency, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1998 Residency, Maine College of Art, Portland