===---- Yvonne Spielmann, full professional cv ----===

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1982, M.A	J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. Dept. of German, American Studies and Philosophy. M. A. thesis: "Recent Developments in Feminist Film Theories"
1989, Ph.D	University of Hanover. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences dissertation on the concept of the avant-garde in modernism and post-modernism
1997	Habilitation. Qualified as full professor for media studies with a thesis on the theory of media, University of Konstanz
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1983-1989	Teaching Appointment, Dept. of Theater and Film and additional teaching in the Dept. of Northern American Studies, Free University of Berlin.
1993-1994	Assistant to the Head of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1994-1995	Teaching Appointment, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1996-2000	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Art History, University of Siegen
1998	Professor of Media Studies, University of Paderborn (replacement)
2001-2007	Professor of Visual Media, Braunschweig University of Art
present	Professor of New Media, University of the West of Scotland
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1991	Art Institute, Offenbach, Dept. of Film
1992	Academy of Arts, Berlin, Dept. of Film and Video
1993	Art Institute, Zurich, Dept. of Film and Video Institut for Communication Design, Konstanz
1994	Film Academy of Baden-Württemberg
1995	Humboldt-University, Dept. of Cultural Studies, Berlin German Film Academy Berlin; School of Film and Television, Babelsberg
2000	Merz Academy, Stuttgart
2003	University of Dundee, School of Imaging and Television and Fine Arts Dept.
2004	Academy of Design and Art Zurich, Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design
2005	Academy of Design and Art Zurich
2007	Graduate School "InterArts", Free University Berlin
topics of interest: media theory and media history, histories and theories of film, televison, video, fine arts and performing arts, experiment and avantgarde in twentieth century, cultural theories/critical theory, gender, intermediality, hybridisation, digitality, visual culture.
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Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde, Frankfurt 1991. Studies in Film, Theater, and Television edited by Renate Möhrmann (author)
Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway (Intermediality. The Systems of Peter Greenaway) (author). Wilhelm Fink Publishers, Munich 1998
Video. Das reflexive Medium Suhrkamp Press, Frankfurt 2005
Video. The Reflexive Medium MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008
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FrauenFilmHandbuch, Berlin 1984. A Register of Women Film-makers (Co-author).
Frauen Künste. Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Unna 1985. Catalog (co-editor and co-author).
Kunst und Politik der Avantgarde, Frankfurt 1989 (editor). Contributions by Russell A. Berman, Jost Hermand, Thomas Y. Levin, Burkhardt Lindner, and Yvonne Spielmann
Bild - Medium - Kunst (Image - Medium - Arts) German/English, Wilhelm Fink Publishers, Munich 1999, editor together with Gundolf Winter
Special issue: What is Intermedia?, Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media, University of Luton Press, vol. 8, no. 4, 2002 (guest edited by Jürgen Heinrichs and Yvonne Spielmann)
Special Issue: Remédier/Remediation, Intermédialités, no. 6, 2005, (English and French), edited by Philippe Despoix and Yvonne Spielmann
Special issue: Hybrid Identities in Digital Media, Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media, Sage Press, vol.11, no. 4, 2005 (guest edited by Kerstin Mey and Yvonne Spielmann)
Special section: "CAA 2005: Hybridity: Arts, Sciences and Cultural Effects", Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press 2006, vol.39, no.2 pp. 106-108, and vol.39 no.3 pp. 214-221, (guest edited by Yvonne Spielmann and Jay David Bolter)
Art Journal: "Thematic Investigation: Forty Years of Video Art" Vol. 65, no. 3 Fall 2006, Organized by Yvonne Spielmann
Kultureller Umbau. Räume, Identitäten und Re/Präsentationen, Transcript Publishers, Bielefeld 2007, co-edited with Meike Kröncke and Kerstin Mey
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"Überlegungen zu feministischer Theaterästhetik", Theaterzeitschrift 9 (1984): 78-86.
"Einige Überlegungen zur weiblichen Rezeption", Dokumentation der 7. Sommeruniversität für Frauen (1984): 337-342.
"Gewalt und Leidenschaft in Kinoblicken", Feminismus und Wissenschaft 3 (1986): 99-113.
"Kino Blicke", Die Tageszeitung July 19 (1986): 10-11.
Contribution to "Ewig lockt das Weib?", Eds. Nadia Bagdadi and Irene Bazinger (1984): 158-182.
"Blicke und Perspektiven. Filmische Inszenierung weiblicher Identität", Feminismus und Wissenschaft 4 (1987): 147-155.
"Portrait Experimentalfilm: Elfi Mikesch", epd film 11 (1987): 10-13.
"Ein filmkulturelles Modell: Arsenal", in Filmzeit, ed. Dieter Bertz (1987): 79-93.
"Der Scheintod der Avantgarde", Literaturmagazin 24 (1989): 29-44.
"Strategien der Perforation und Entgrenzung in Ginka Steinwachs' "Performance-Kunst", in Ein Mund von Welt: Ginka Steinwachs, Text/s/orte/n, ed. Sonia Nowoelsky (1989): 53-61.
"Spiegelungen experimenteller Bilder im souveränen Blick", in Frauen & Film (1991): 7-19.
"Ein unerhörtes Sprachlabor. Feministische Aspekte im Werk von Elfriede Jelinek", in Elfriede Jelinek, eds. Kurt Bartsch and Günther Höfler (1991): 21-40.
"Zeit, Bewegung, Raum. Bildintervall und visueller Cluster", montage/av 2,2 (1993): 49-68.
"Framing, Fading, Fake: Peter Greenaways Kunst der Regeln", in Film, Fernsehen, Video und die Künste. Strategien der Intermedialität, ed. Joachim Paech (1994): 132-149.
"Die Eierdiebe. Weibliche Zone von Gerda Edelweiss Grossmann and Margit Eschenbach", Neue Filme und Videos von 1984 bis 1994, eds. Eva Hohenberger and Karin Jurschick (1994): 201-209.
"Intermedialität als symbolische Form," Ästhetik & Kommunikation 88 (1995): 112-117.
"Peter Greenaway. Film, eine Kunst nach Regeln? Ein Gespräch mit Yvonne Spielmann", (public interview with Peter Greenaway) in Der schöne Schein der Künstlichkeit, ed. Andreas Rost (1995): 71-115
"Avantgarde", in 100 Jahre: Frauen und Kino, eds. femme totale and feminale (Womens Film Festival) (1996): 16-23.
"Liebe, Ekel und Amok. Die Ausgesperrten von Franz Nowotny nach einem Roman von Elfriede Jelinek", in Der neue österreichische Film, ed. Gottfried Schlemmer (1996): 103-113.
"Zentralperspektive und Symmetrie. Zählsysteme und Enzyklopädie als filmische Struktur. Peter Greenaway, ein Formalist par excellence?" in Kinoschriften 4 (1996): 31-44.
"Metaphoriken des Inter", in Interaktiv. Im Labyrinth der Wirklichkeiten, ed. Wolfgang Zacharias (1996): 38-50.
"Aus der Dämmerung/Out of the Dusk", in Der grosse Guckkasten/The Grand Panorama. Exhbition catalog Stefan Bohnenberger (1996): 11-18/33-39. (english version)
"Bausteine zu einer Theorie intermedialer Bildgestaltung", in Die Frage nach dem Kunstwerk unter den heutigen Bildern, eds. Hans Belting and Siegfried Gohr (1996): 139-161.
"Die hyperdynamische Bildstelle und andere Formen intermedialer Selbstreflexion", in Arbeitshefte Bildschirmmedien 65, Universität-GH Siegen (1997): 33-40.
"Collage, die schönste Sorge eines Formalisten. Zur Historizität von Bildformen" in Der Film in der Geschichte. Dokumentation der GFF-Tagung. eds. Knut Hickethier, Eggo Müller, and Rainer Rother (1997): 255 - 268.
"Digitalisierung. Zeitbild und Raumbild", in Der Film bei Deleuze/Le Cinéma selon Deleuze (German/French), eds. Oliver Fahle and Lorenz Engell (1997): 496 - 515 and 516 - 535.
"Representation of Time, Movement and Space in Intermedia Arts", in: Come to your Sense! Event and Engagement, Conference Papers ASCA, Amsterdam (25-29 May, 1998): 75-80.
"Intermedia and the Organization of the Image: Some Reflections on Film, Eelectronic, and Digital Media", in Iris. A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound 25 (1998): 61-74.
"History and Theory of Intermedia in Visual Culture", in ISEA'97 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), conference proceedings. ed. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998): 61-62.
"Film w epoce elektronicznej. Dyskusja panelowa", in Kino ma 100 lat, dekada po dekadzie, Universität Lodz (1998): 344-353.
"Expanding Film into Digital Media", in Screen, vol. 40. no. 2, (1999): 131-145.
"Klocki do teorii intermedialnosci obrazu", (trans. by Andrzej Gwozdz) in: Wspolczesna Niemiecka Mysl Filmowa. Od projektora do komputera, ed. Andrzej Gwozdz, Katowice (Slask 1999): 157 - 180.
"Schichtung und Verdichtung im elektronischen Bild", in Bild - Medium - Kunst, eds. Yvonne Spielmann and Gundolf Winter, München (1999): 59 - 75.
"Vision und Visualität in der elektronischen Kunst/Vision and Visuality in Electronic Art", German/Engl., in video cult/ures. Multimediale Installationen der 90er Jahre, ed. Ursula Frohne, Dumont/ZKM Karlsruhe, Köln (1999): 62-78.
"Wie man vielleicht den Zeitcharakter des Films mit dem plastischen Bildraum zusammensurren lassen kann", in Zeit, ed. SYNEMA, Wien (1999): 66 - 80.
"Aesthetic Features in Digital Imaging: Collage and Morph", in Wide Angle, vol. 21, no. 1 (1999): 131 - 148.
"Theory and Practice of the Avant-garde: Weiss's Approaches to Film", in Rethinking Peter Weiss, eds. Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman, New York (2000): 75-91.
"Selbstreflexion im Videobild", in Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, no. 117 (2000): 155 - 163.
"Die Wiederkehr des ganz normalen Lebens im Film - eine Farce?", in Nicht kleinzukriegen? Die Rückkehr des Sozialen im Film (Arnoldshainer FG, vol. 16), eds. Ernst Karpf, Doron Kiesel and Karsten Visarius, Marburg ( 2000): pp. 25 - 40.
"Aspekte einer ästhetischen Theorie der Intermedialität", in Über Bilder sprechen. Positionen und Perspektiven der Medienwissenschaft, eds. Heinz-B. Heller, Matthias Kraus, Thomas Medier, Karl Prümm and Hartmut Winkler, Marburg (2000): 57 - 67.
"Visual Forms of Representation and Simulation: A Study of Chris Marker's Level 5", in Convergence, vol. 6, no. 2 (summer 2000): 18 - 40.
"Is there an Avant-Garde in Digital Arts?", in Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts, The Condition of Art at the Turn of the Century, vol.I (X), Lodz (2000): 109 - 116.
"Zerstörung der Formen: Bild und Medium bei Jean-Luc Godard", in Theater und Kino in der Zeit der Nouvelle Vague, eds. Volker Roloff and Scarlett Winter, Tübingen (2000): 111 - 124.
"0190 - Differenz und Wiederholung", in TV Trash. The TV-Show I love to hate, eds. Ulrike Bergmann and Hartmut Winkler, Marburg (2000): 59 - 70.
"Intermedia in Electronic Media", in Leonardo, vol 34, no. 1 (2001): 55 - 61.
"De la temporalité à la spatialité", in Dialogues sur l'art et la technologie, Autour d'Edmond Couochot, sous la direction de François Soulages, Paris (2001): 101 - 122.
"Medienästhetik: Voraussetzungen und Grundlagen", in Einführung in die Medienwissenschaft, ed. Gebhard Rusch, Opladen (2002), pp. 5 - 22.
"Das Bild der Schrift und des Schreibens in Peter Greenaways Film 'The Pillow Book' " in Schrift und Bild im Film, eds. Hans-Edwin Friedrich und Uli Jung, Bielefeld (2002): 81 - 95.
"From Text to Media: Intertext, Intermedia, and Hypermedia", in From Work to Words, ed. Doris Frohnapfel, Bergen (2002): 70 - 79.
"Video - the reflexive performance of media images", in: Coded Characters. Media Art by Jill Scott, ed. by Marille Hahne, Cantz Press, Stuttgart (2002): 202 - 213.
"Elastic Cinema: Technological Imagery in Contemporary Science Fiction Films", in Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 9, no. 3 (2003), pp. 56-73
"Hybridization: Some Reflections on the technologies and Aesthetics of Contemporary Media Cultures", in: Art Inquiry, vol. V (XIV), Lodz, 2003, pp. 155 - 178
"Redimensionierung einer Grundspannung. Zu: 'Abstraktion und Einfühlung' " in Wilhelm Worringer Schriften, vol I and II, eds. Hannes Böhringer, Helga Grebing and Beate Söntgen, Wilhelm Fink Press (Munich), 2004, pp. 1327 - 1337.
"An Interview with Bill Seaman, by Yvonne Spielmann", Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=386 also published in: 'transcript' cross-wired communication-interface-locality, edited by Simon Yuill and Kerstin Mey, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 11-28
"An interview with Steina Vasulka, by Yvonne Spielmann", Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=416
"Video and Computer: The Aesthetic of Steina and Woody Vasulka", Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=461 short version also published in Czech and English: "Video and Computer. The Aesthetics of Steina and Woody Vasulka", in: Iluminance no. 2, 2006, edited by Lenka Dolanová, Prague, pp. 71 - 86.
"Intermedialität und Hybridisierung", in Intermedium Literatur, eds. Roger Lüdeke and Erika Greber, Wallstein Press, Göttingen (2004), pp. 78 - 102.
"History and Theory of Intermedia in Visual Culture", in Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal, eds. Hans Breder and Klaus-Peter Busse, Dortmund (2005), pp. 131 - 136.
"The experimental video work of the Vasulkas in light of media developments in the 70's, 80's and in the present". Workshops with Professor Yvonne Spielmann (Ph.D) Text and Video Document. Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=525
"Schrift, Bild und Schreiben bei Peter Greenaway. Prospero´s Books und The Pillow Book" in: "Hand, Schrift, Bild.", Toni Bernhart, Gert Gröning (eds.), Paragrana - Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Akademie Press 2005, supplement 1, pp. 195 - 208.
"Elastische Räume und hybride Körper in den High Tech Science-Fiction Filmen Terminator 2 und The Matrix", in "Körpermaschinen - Maschinenkörper. Mediale Transformationen", Klaus-Peter Köpping, Bettina Papenburg, Christoph Wulf (eds.), Paragrana - Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Akademie Press 2005, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 145 - 161.
"Maschinen und Fliegen: Panamarenko", in Blickfeld Gegenwartskunst, eds. Annelie Lütgens, Katharina Sykora, Salon Press, Köln (2005), pp. 220 - 234.
"Video: From Technology to Medium", in Art Journal, vol. 65, no.3, Fall (2006), pp. 54 - 69.
"Visualität und Bildlichkeit im intermedialen Vergleich: Film, Video und Computer", in Image - Problem?, eds. Slavko Kacunko and Dawn Leach, Berlin (2006), pp. 217 - 230.
"Audio-Visualisierung", in Zapping Zone, ed. Gerhard Johann Lischka, Benteli Press, Bern and Zürich (2007), pp. 200 - 217.
"Copy, Remake und Remix. Die offene Struktur von Video/Copy, remake and remix. The open structure of video" in: Videonale 11, ed. Georg Elben, Köln (2007): 132-148.
"Die Matrix der Hybridität. Überlegungen zur japanischen Medienkultur", in Kultureller Umbau, eds. Meike Kröncke, Kerstin Mey and Yvonne Spielmann, Bielefeld (2007), pp. 117 - 135.
"Paul Sharits: from Cinematic Movement to Non-directional Motion", in Avant-Garde Film, eds. Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann, Amsterdam: Rodopi, (2007), pp. 197-216.
"Matryca hybrydyzacji. Przemyslenia na temat japonskiej kultury mediow," in Przeglad Kulturoznawczy (Cultural Studies Review), Lodz, (2007), No 3, pp. 63-75.
"Differenz und Gleichheit. Identitätskonstruktionen in visuellen Medien", in Medien - Körper - Imagination, eds. Mark Poster and Christoph Wulf, Paragrana - Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Akademie Press (2008), vol 17, no.1, pp. 228-246.
"Zum Status des Bildlichen im Video", in Abschied vom Zelluloid?, eds. Andreas Kirchner, Karl Prümm, Martin Richling, Schüren: Marburg, (2008), pp. 26 - 38.
Online Articles at Leonardo Digital Review: La Biennale die Venezia, 52th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia The Cinema Effect La Biennale di Venezia. 50th International Art Exhibition: "Dreams and Conflict. The Dictatorship of the Viewer" Valie Export. Media Anagrams Theater goes Reality TV Virtual Arts in History and Present. Virtuelle Kunst in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Visuelle Strategies by Oliver Grau Digital McLuhan. A guide to information millenium by Paul Levinson SONAR 2006 - 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Mutimedia Art Eternal Youth by Al and Al
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1986-1988	Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Hanover.
1989	Women Studies Research Fellowship, City of Berlin.
1989-1990	Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica.
1990	Research and Travel Grant for a Seminar with Leo Loewenthal (UC Berkeley). Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples.
1991-1993	Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Konstanz, Dept. of Media Studies
1994-1996	Research Grant for the completion of the postdoctoral thesis (habilitation), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
1998	Publication Grant for the habilitation thesis Deutsche Froschungsgemeinschaft.
2000-2001	The Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University.
Fulbright Travel Grant.
2002	Study and Conference Center at Bellagio Fellowship The Rockefeller Foundation.
2003	Grant for Researchers in Residence, The Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal
2004	Visiting Researcher, The Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal
2005	The Japan Foundation Fellowship
2007	Visiting Scholarship at National University of Singapore
2008	Carnegie Research Grant
	The Royal Society of Edinburgh ( International Exchange Programme)
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since 2001 member of the "Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité" at Université de Montréal
since 2001 committee member for the selection of exchange students of the German section of Fulbright Commission
2006, examiner for doctoral examination at University of Auckland, New Zealand
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1984-1988	Film criticism for various film journals
1985	Internship, cultural section, State Radio (Hessen). Feature on the history of cinemas in Berlin since 1945
1984-85	Organization of the women section at the Berlin Theater Festival Organization of the theater section at the Women's Art Festival, Unna.
1989	Organization of the symposium "Art and Politics of the Avant-Garde" ("Kunst und Politik der Avantgarde") Frankfurt/Main
1991	Organization of the symposium "Humanities and the Arts: a dialogue" ("Wisssenschaft-Streit-Lust-Kunst"), Frankfurt/Main
1994	Public Interview with the British film-maker Peter Greenaway, Munich.
	Public discussion with David Bordwell, Munich.
1998	Organizer of the symposium "Images - Media Images - Images in Media Arts", University of Siegen, April 16-18.
2003	Organizer together with André Gaudreault and Livia Monnet of the conference “Histoire et géographie d’un conept. L’intermédialité entre les savoirs” at “Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité”, Université de Montréal
2007	Participant in round-table talk "Partisans of Utopia" together with Boris Groys and Klaus Staeck, Radio Feature, Deutschlandradio (German Broadcasting), broadcasted Feb 10, 2007
	Consultant for the conference "Creative Industries" at Asia-Pacific Weeks, Berlin, Sept 19-23.
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chairs of panels:
1998	Chair of the panel and paper presentation on "Rereading Deleuze on Cinema", Society for Cinema Studies, San Diego
1999	Chair of the panel: "Digital Imagery Theory: How Do we Reconsider Theories of the Analogue Representation?", Society for Cinema Studies, Palm Beach, Florida.
2002	Chair of the Panel: "Cultural Effects of Mediatisation and Digitisation", Cultural Studies Conference "Crossroads", Tampere
2004	Co-Chair of the panel and paper presentation at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) in Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn, title: "Hybridity: Interfaces, Identities and the Arts".
2005	Co-chair of the "Leonardo"-panel at the College Art Association Conference, Atlanta
2006	Chair of the session "Hybrid Spaces: New Forms of Mobility, Interactivity and Virtuality", Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference at Istanbul Bilgi University
2008	Co-Chair of the panel "Eastern-Western Interaction in Digital Media", International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008, Singapore
lectures, presentations:
1995	Lecture at the symposium "Time", Vienna
1996	Panelist at the International Conference "A Hundred Years of Cinema", Lodz
1997	Paper at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Chicago;
	Guest Lecture/Seminar at the University of Iowa
	Lecture at the conference "Concept: Avant-garde", Vienna
1998	Paper at the International Symposium on Electronic ART (ISEA), Liverpool
	Keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Workshop "Peter Weiss", Madison and at the Peter Weiss Conference, Duke University, Durham
	Lecture series at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Milwaukee; Cornell University, and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook
1999	Lecture and Workshop at School of Television and Imaging of the University of Dundee, Scotland
	Paper at the INVENCAO conference and talk at the Goethe-Institute, Sao Paulo
2000	Paper at the Society for Cinema Studies conference, Chicago and at the University of Illinois, Chicago
2001	Paper at the video festival "Dreamcatcher", Kiev
	Lecture at the conference "Multimodality of Culture", Tampere
2002	Paper at the College Art Association 90th Annual Conference, Philadelphia
	Lecture and workshop at the University of Montréal
	Paper at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver
2004	Paper at the College Art Association 92th Annual Conference, Seattle
	Paper at the 31st Congress of the Comité international d'histoire de l'art "Sites and Territories of Art History", Montréal
	Lectures and workshops in Montréal: Goethe-Institute, The Daniel Langlois Foundation and Université de Quebec à Montréal.
2005	Lectures at Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Arizona State University and Santa Fe College
	Lectures at Kyoto Seika University and IAMAS, Japan
2006	Paper at the conference "Body-Media-Imagination", Irvine, jointly organized by Free University Berlin and UC Irvine.
	Lectures at University of Auckland and University of Waikato in New Zealand.
	Lecture and workshop at "Eikones: Iconic Criticism", University of Basel
2008	Lecture at Glasgow School of Art
	Lecture at Royal College of Art
	Lectures at Lasalle College of the Art and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
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