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Sven Spieker teaches in the Comparative Literature Program; the Department of Art and Art History; and the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in European modernism, with an emphasis on the Eastern European avant-gardes, contemporary art – with an emphasis on Eastern Europe -, and critical theory. Spieker has published on topics ranging from the Russian avant-garde (Malevich, Rodchenko, Dziga Vertov) to late 20th-century art and aesthetics. His essays and articles have appeared in German, Russian, Swedish, Polish and English. Spieker has organized several international conferences (most recently, The Office in the Studio: The Administration of Modernism at the University of Jena, Germany). Spieker's latest book publication focused on the archive as a crucible of European modernism (The Big Archive, MIT Press, 2008). Spieker is the editor of ARTMargins and ARTMargins Online (www.artmargins.com).
Current projects include a Critical Anthology of Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe; a study of knowledge and documentation in contemporary art (working title: Post-Documentary: On Research and Knowlege in Contemporary Art), and a study of Kazimir Malevich in the media age.
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