Invited Lectures - Selected

2010. "Notation in 20th-Century Art." Lecture on the occasion of Hubert von Amelunxen's visit to the UCSB Media Arts and Technology Program.

2010. "Introduction to the General Theory of Place: Some Remarks on the Autonomy of Art and the Critique of Institutions in Polish Art of the Mid-1960s and '70's." Conference New Histories of Modern Art: The East European Avant-Gardes at the University of Chicago.

2009. "'Delirium' in Recent Russian Conceptual Art (Pepperstein/Anufriev)." Seminar held at the University of Bremen/Germany.

2009. "Archive vs. Database in Conceptual Art of the 1960s and 70s (East/West)." Lecture at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

2009. "Difference and Russian Modernism: The Case of Malevich." Conference Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum Oeconomicum at the Free University, Berlin.

2009. "Photomontage and Archival Order in 20th-Century Photography." Lecture at Reed College. Portland/OR.

2009. "The Artist as Vertreter: “'Whoever Wants to Be an Artist Shall Step Forward' (RE: Kippenberger’s Büro)." Conference The Office in the Studio. The Administration of Modernism at the University of Jena/Germany.

2009. "Signs on Paper: Interventions in the Administrative Counter-Sublime (1912-1932).” Lecture at the Royal Library, Stockholm.

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2009. "Warenökonomie und semiotischer Austausch in der Avant-Garde." Workshop Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum Oeconomicum at the Free University Berlin.

2008. "Gorging on Images: The Archive in 20th-Century Photography." Lecture at New York University, New York/NY.

2006. “Zerstreuende Versenkung: Walter Benjamins unterbrechende Sicht auf die historischen Avantgarden.” Walter Benjamin Conference, Berlin.

2006. "Hybridity and Unreadability in Tarkovsky's Films." Conference Hybridity in Russian Culture at the University of Konstanz/Germany.

2005. "Das Bild hinter dem Bild : Die off/on Ästhetik der historischen Avantgarde." Lecture at the University of Regensburg/Germany.

2005. "Die Avantgarde als Experimentallabor." Conference “Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum Machinarum” at the Free University, Berlin.

2004. “L’image numérique dans l’espace: Ilya Kabakov avec Jeffrey Shaw.” Conference L’art et le numérique in Cérisy-la-Salle/France.

2004. “Der Surrealismus im Büro : Verwaltung der Kunst und Kunst der Verwaltung.” Conference Surrealism Today at the University of Düsseldorf.

2003. “Rodchenko’s Files or: The Birth of Modernism from the Bureaucracy.” Alexander Rodchenko Symposium at the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley/CA.

2003. “Archives of Modernism.” Lecture at the Tanzquartier: Factory Season Project, Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna.

2003. “Sublimacija i de-sublimacija medij v stalinizme: kontrol ‘i vlast’.” Conference Sowjetmacht und Medien at the University of Bielefeld/Germany.

2003. “The Archeology of the Modern Archive.” Lecture at the Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.

2003. “El Lissitzkys Demonstrationsräume für abstrakte Kunst: Zwischen Museum und Büro.” Conference Bild und Schrift im historischen Wandel at the Center for the Study of Literature (Literaturzentrum), Berlin.

2002. “Die Ablagekur, oder: Wo Es war, soll Archiv werden: Le Corbusiers Bürokarteien.” Conference Kinetographien at Humboldt University.

2002. “Schock und Ablage: Le Corbusiers Bürokarteien”, Workshop Zwischenräume at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

2000. “‘Symptômes sans abri’: archives et trauma.” Conference La rupture dans l’art at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

2000. “L’amnésie topographique. L’Atlas de Gerhard Richter”. Symposium Voilà / Le monde dans la tête at the Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.