John Di Stefano is an artist/filmmaker, scholar/writer and occasional curator.
Dr Di Stefano was Scholar-in-residence in the Art History Department at Concordia University, and formerly Associate Professor at Sydney College of the Arts-University of Sydney, Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Massey University (Wellington), Postgraduate Coordinator at the National Art School (Sydney), and Head of the Video Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also been a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the University of California, and Victoria University (New Zealand).
Much of his research examines how concepts and perceptions of memory, space/place, and time shape the articulation of subjectivities so as to reconcile the personal with the social, the everyday with history. His current research interests and projects include: examining notions of temporality in contemporary art and film; the museum and contemporary art; hybrid forms of contemporary documentary practice; critical inquiries into the evolving nature of the photographic; the essayistic form in current moving image practices; and transnationalism and identity.
Dr Di Stefano’s critical writings have appeared in various international journals including Art Journal (NewYork) and Art Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and in publications including Photography & Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge), Queer Looks (Routledge), Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (Scarecrow), and Performance: Design (Museum Tusculanum). His book-works VITALITY [1988] and Unfold [2011] were published by Artextes Press (Montréal) and Enjoy Public Art Gallery (Wellington) respectively. He was also desk editor of Art Asia Pacific from 2004-2017.
His curatorial projects include Satellite (Shanghai - in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale of Art), Open Cities (Hong Kong/Chicago) and Not On Any Map (Chicago), in addition to programming for the DocNZ Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. He has been the co-convenor of conferences including the biennial Expanding Documentary (New Zealand), Photography/Ontology (University of Sydney), and The Image in Question (University of Sydney). He has chaired numerous sessions at international conferences including the College Art Association (USA), and the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand.
Dr Di Stefano’s exhibition career spans over 30 years. His interdisciplinary studio work is focused primarily in video, photo-based and time-based media, and installation; it has also included performance, bookwork, site-specific and public art projects. His video work has won several awards, including the New Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and has been selected for official competition in international festivals including the Festival International du Documentaire (Marseille), as well as having been broadcast on American public television (PBS). His gallery-based work has been exhibited internationally in North America, Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand at venues including: Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), La Virreina Museum (Barcelona), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), Pera Museum (Istanbul), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Videonale (Kunstmuseum, Bonn); Anthology Film Archives (New York); Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Transmediale (Berlin); Barcelona Museum of Modern Art; Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong); and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). His video work is distributed by Video Data Bank (Chicago), V-Tape (Toronto) and Circuit (Wellington).
DEGREES
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dean’s list). 2011
University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. Master of Fine Art - MFA. 1991
Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction) - BFA. 1986
DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS (selected)
Experimental Forum, Honourable mention, Los Angeles, US. 2018
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture, Fern Residency Fellow. 2017
CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa New Zealand. Artist Cinema Commission. 2017
Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille (FIDM). Media Library Prize Competition (candidate). 2010
Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille (FIDM).Official International Competition (candidate). 2010
Documentary Edge Film Festival, New Zealand. Official Competition (candidate). 2010
Artforum, New York [publication]. "Best of 2001 - Top ten art works of 2001", selected by James Meyer (Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC). 2001
Atlanta International Film Festival. Best Social Critique Award - Video. Honourable mention. 1993
San Francisco International Film Festival. New Visions / Golden Gate Award - Video. 1992
Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian International Film & Video Festival. Audience Choice Award - Best Video. 1991
ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art: Temporality and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art: The Screen Image
ARTH 387 Issues in Art & Criticism: The Photo-filmic Image
ARTH 390 Art & the Museum: Contexts & Strategies for the 21st/c Contemporary Art Museum
IMCA 400 Advanced Practices in Video, Performance and Electronic Arts
IMCA 310 Intermediate Video Production
'Casa: Displacement, Home and Belonging' (chapter) in Here & Now: Queer Italian-Canadian Writing (Vol 2), Ed. L. Canton. Longbridge: Toronto, Canada, 2023
'Querying and Queering Pasolini' [Co-authored with Cathy Lee Crane] (interview), La Furia Umana, No. 43, 2022
'The Presence of Video: Making the Displaced and Disappeared Self Visible’ (chapter) in Photography & Ontology: Unsettling Images. Eds. N. Lusty & D. West Brett. Routledge, London, UK, 2019
'Bodies at the Vanishing Point: doublethink and Ann Shelton’s Evental Photographic Constructions' [Co-authored with D. Hannah] (chapter) Dark Matter, Ed. Z. Stanhope. Auckland Art Gallery: Auckland, New Zealand, 2016
‘Suspended Moments’ [Co-authored with D. Hannah] (chapter). Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happen, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
'Intermission: interstitial moments in creative and cruel practice' [Co-authored with D. Hannah] (peer reviewed essay). Intersticies: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts, University of Auckland, No. 12. Auckland, New Zealand, 2011
‘Tell Me Tell Me’ (review) Art Asia Pacific, No. 75. New York, NY, USA, 2011
‘Erased @ NAS’ (review) Art Month Sydney blog. Ed. Carl Lyket. Sydney, AU, 2011
‘Javier Téllez: Intermission: A Critical Response’ (essay) One Day Sculpture. Eds. D. Cross & C. Doherty, Kerber Verlag, Germany, 2009
‘One Day Sculpture. A response to Javier Téllez's Intermission’(essay) in Situations Papers, Situations, University of West England, Bristol, UK, 2009
'Sounding the depths: Marcia Lyons’ Evolutions' (catalogue essay). Emergent Submersives. Bartley Co. Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
‘You Are Here: Moving Images/Performative Acts/Documentary Paradigm’ (chapter). Performance: Design. Eds. D. Hannah & O. Harsløf. Museum Tusculanum Press—Copenhagen University Press, Copenhagen, DK, 2008
‘Peter Greenaway and the Failure of Cinema’ (chapter). Peter Greenaway’s Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, Eds. P. Willoquet & M. Alemany-Galway. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, USA, 2008
‘Activating Korea’ (review). Art Asia Pacific, No.58. New York, NY, USA, 2008
‘Slow Rushes’ (review). Art Asia Pacific, No. 44. New York, NY, USA, 2006
'Satellite:NZ' (curatorial text) in Satellite, Eds. K. Hung et al., Creative Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2006
‘A Match Made in Shanghai’ (feature). Art Asia Pacific, No. 42. New York, NY, USA, 2005
‘Ice and Fire’ (feature). Art Asia Pacific, No. 41. New York, NY, USA, 2004
'Dirty Pixels' (review). Illusions, Vol. No.35. Wellington, New Zealand, 2003
‘Moving Images of Home’ (essay). Art Journal, Vol. 61, No. 4. College Art Association, New York, NY, USA, 2002
'From Distraction to Disappearance' (catalogue essay). Open Cities. Rymer Gallery, Chicago/ Para/Site, Hong Kong, China, 2001
'Travel and Identities of Displacement' (catalogue essay). Not On Any Map. Rymer Gallery / Film Center, Chicago, IL. USA, 1999
'Cultures of Empire/Cultures of Resistance: Kidlat Tahimik' (interview). Art & Artist series. Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL, USA, 1998
‘Picturing Pasolini’ (essay). Art Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2. College Art Association, New York, NY, USA, 1997
'How Do I Look: Queer Film and Video' (review). WideAngle, Vol. 14, No.3. University of Ohio, Athens OH, USA, 1993
2021
Millennium Film Workshop Channel [online], Millennium Film, New York, NY, US
2020
This is Not a Love Song, Fernán Gómez Centro de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
2019
Oodaaq - Festival d’images nomades et poétiques, Maison de la Poésie, Rennes, France
2018
Magic Bureaucracy, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
Thick Cinema, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany.
Disco! An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Festival Les Instants Vidéo, BOX Videoart, Milan, Italy
2017
Dot Dot Dot. SCA Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2016
This is Not a Love Song. Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Indeterminate States. William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney, Australia
Dumbsh*t videoart. Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Dallas VideoFest. Dallas, TX, USA
London Underground Film Festival, London UK
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
VDB TV [online program], Video Data Bank, Chicago, USA
2015
* Bandiera Nera, SCA Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Tactical Imaginary, SCA Galleries, Sydney,Australia
* Lucis Puncta, Folonomo Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014
The Sceptical Image. SCA Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2013
This is Not a Love Song. Virreina Centre de la Imatge (in conjunction with Screen Festival), Barcelona, Spain
Låntrum (film series), Osramhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Strom Kunstfestival. Kunsthaus Rheniana. Cologne, Germany
Please Be Quiet. BSR Gallery – British School at Rome, Italy
Spazi Aperti. Romanian Academy. Rome, Italy
Poetics and Politics of Documentary Film Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Out of this World. William Wright Artists' Projects. Sydney,Australia
Intersensorial Threads. FCA Gallery- University of Wollongong. Australia
2012
Dialogues in Contemporary Video Art. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Artworks & Artwords. Project Space – National Art School. Sydney, Australia
Santorini Biennale of Art. Santorini, Greece
2011
Videonale – Contemporary Video Art. Kunstmuseum. Bonn, Germany
* The Return. Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Wellington, New Zealand
Video Review. BWA Contemporary Art Gallery. Katowice, Poland
Paper Trail. Robin Gibson Gallery. Sydney, Australia
Sightseeing. St. Paul Street Gallery- AUT. Auckland, New Zealand (in partnership with Goethe Institute)
I AM WHAT I PLAY (video program). Cell Block Theatre - NAS Gallery (in conjunction with Sydney Fringe Festival). Sydney, Australia
* The Screening Room. Cell Block Theatre - NAS Gallery / Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
2010
Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille (FIDM) [official competition]. Marseille, France
* New Filmmakers. Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY, USA
Human Rights Film Festival. Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina
Documentary Edge Film Festival [official competition]. New Zealand
Double Take / Time Frame. Project Space - RMIT. Melbourne, Australia
* Ashes (Amsterdam) (part of FED TV public art project). Federation Square. Melbourne, Australia
Sightseeing. Peninsula Art Gallery- University of Plymouth, UK (in partnership with Goethe Institute)
2009
* You Are Here. New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand
Ashes (Amsterdam) (part of Projection on Lake public art project). Pasadena, CA, USA
On Ritual. Bartley Co Gallery. Wellington, NZ
Channeling. London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - Experimental Visions. British Film Institute. London, UK
2008
Crossroads: Interfaces between Rock Music and Contemporary Art (in conjunction with Exploraphoto – International Festival of Photography, Castilla y León) Domus Artium Museum. Salamanca, Spain
2006
LOOP Festival – ‘New Zealand Scapes’ program. Barcelona, Spain
Satellite (in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale of Art). Creative Shanghai, China
From Mini-FM to Hacktivists. Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2005
Moonstruck: Hong Kong Artist's Biennale. Art Space - Club64. Hong Kong, China
* Texts & Subtexts [The Pasolini Project]. New Zealand Film Archives. Wellington, NewZealand
2004
New Zealand Biennial of Contemporary Art: Break/Shift. Govett-Brewster Gallery. New Plymouth, New Zealand
Matchmaking (in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale of Art). Eastlink Gallery. Shanghai, China
2003
* Inter/section (part of Art Box public art commissions). Civic Square. Wellington, New Zealand
* Picturing Pasolini [The Pasolini Project]. Moving Image Centre. Auckland, New Zealand
2002
* Je Me Souviens [The Pasolini Project]. Galerie Articule. Montréal, Canada
Transmediale - International Media Arts Festival. Berlin, Germany
* Je Me Souviens (I Remember) [The Pasolini Project] (in conjunction with Images International Film Festival) A Space. Toronto, Canada
Politics, Resistance & Musical Subculture. Barcelona Museum of Modern Art. Barcelona, Spain
Festival de Imagem de Oeiras. Barcarena, Portugal
Voices in Transit Project. Central Station. Cape Town, South Africa / SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2001
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival. Kassel, Germany
Open Cities: HKG. Para/Site Art Space. Hong Kong, China
Open Cities: ORD. Betty Rymer Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
25 Artists / 25 Years. Ellen Art Gallery. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
1999
Art and Queery. Gallery 2. Chicago, IL, USA
A Book Is Not A Book Is Not A Book. Rymer Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
1998
Troubling Customs - Boston. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA, USA
Troubling Customs- Toronto. Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Canada
Textuality. Gallery 2. Chicago, IL, USA.
Artists of the MidWest. Northern Michigan University Art Museum. Marquette, MI, USA
1997
* Center for Communications Resources. Chicago, IL, USA
1996
On Love, Sex & Politics. Randolph Street Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA
Day Without Art. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Day Without Art. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Day Without Art. Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Los Angeles, USA
1995
Corporeal Economics. Mercer Union. Toronto, Canada
KQED (PBS affiliate – San Francisco) - Living Room Festival. Selected by New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994
Into the Lapse. Royal Academy of Art. Copenhagen, Denmark
Into the Lapse. Palais des Beaux-Arts. Brussels, Belgium
Hong Kong International Lesbian& Gay Film Festival. Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China
Community Responses. University of California Fine Art Gallery. Irvine, CA, USA
1993
Transcendaids. Watts Towers Art Center. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Into the Lapse. Karsten Schubert Gallery. London, UK
Into the Lapse. Friesenwall 120. Cologne, Germany
Into the Lapse. Dogenhaus. Leipzig, Germany
Into the Lapse. Bruno Brunnet FineArts. Berlin, Germany
Atlanta International Film Festival. Atlanta, GA, USA
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute. London, UK
Tokyo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Tokyo, Japan
Stockholm International FilmFestival. Stockholm, Sweden
1992
* Tell Me Why. New Langton Arts. San Francisco, CA, USA
* Désirs – Idées. Language Plus. Alma, Québec, Canada
European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Osnabruck, Germany
Day Without Art. Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Los Angeles, USA
San Francisco International Film Festival. San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. San Francisco, CA, USA
Wexner Center for theArts. Columbus, OH, USA
VideoFest - Berlin Film Festival. Berlin, Germany
Images International Film and Video Festival. Toronto, Canada
Queer Bodies. Evergreen StateCollege. Olympia, WA, USA
Video Tension. University ofArizona. Tucson, AZ, USA
1991
* Powers of Desire. The Art Library - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
* I Never Can Say Goodbye (part of the LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions public art commissions). Los Angeles, USA
Tell Me Why / The Epistemology of Disco. Wight Art Gallery - UCLA. Los Angeles, USA
No More Heroes. SF Camerawork/Cinematheque. San Francisco, CA, USA
American Film Institute Video Festival. American Film Institute Los Angeles, USA
Chicago International Film Festival. Chicago, IL, USA
Act Of Video (Cable-television broadcast). City University of New York. New York, NY, USA
Articulating Disparities. San José State University Gallery. San José, CA, USA
Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Image et Nation. Goethe Institute. Montréal, Canada
Who's caring? Los Angeles Center for Contemporary Photography. Los Angeles, USA
New World Order. Highways. Santa Monica,CA, USA. Curators: General Idea
LA Freewaves Festival. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Hamburg,Germany
The New Festival. New York, NY, USA
Los Angeles International Gay& Lesbian Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Apprentissages. Maison de la Culture-Frontenac. Montréal, Canada
1990
* Désirs / Idées. Galerie Vu. Québec City, Canada
Positive Action. The Clocktower. New York, NY, USA
Imperfect Moments. California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, CA, USA
Cross Ties. Eye Gallery. Halifax, NS, Canada
Cross Ties. A Space. Toronto, Canada
Out of Control. ARC Gallery. Chicago, IL, USA.
1989
* Désirs / Idées. Galerie Articule. Montréal, Canada
Le Photomaton (in conjunction with Mois de la Photo). Galerie Articule. Montréal, Canada
1988
* Désirs / Idées. Canadian Cultural Centre. Rome, Italy
* Studio. Studio E. Rome, Italy
Visions Beyond Censorship. Idée Gallery. Toronto,Canada
Art at Work. Liberté Factory. Brossard, QC, Canada
Latent Image. Gallery 44. Toronto, Canada
Eros, c'est la vie. Galerie d'art Edouard-Montpetit. Longueuil, QC, Canada
1987
International Artists' Books. Galerie Caroline Corre. Paris, France
International Artists' Books. Center for Book-Art. New York, NY, USA
1986
International Artists' Books. Galerie Aubes. Montréal, Canada
INTERFACE: 3 - Artist Power. Montréal, Canada
[* solo exhibition/screening]
RESIDENCIES (selected)
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture, Fern Residency Fellow. 2017
Concordia University - Hexagram centre for research in media arts, design, technology & digital culture, Visiting Scholar Residency. 2016
British School at Rome, Rome, Italy. Artist-in-Residence. 2013
Shanghai Creative, Shanghai, China. (in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale of Art) Artist-in-Residence. 2006
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China. (in conjunction with the Shanghai Biennale of Art) Artist-in-Residence. 2004
Videotage / Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, China. Artist-in-Residence. 2001
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS (selected)
Ashes (Amsterdam)'. Video projection (commissioned by FED TV) Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. 2010
'Ashes (Amsterdam)'. Video projection (commissioned Projection on Lake public art) Pasadena, USA. 2008/9
'Inter/section'. Site-specific installation (commissioned by the Art Box Project). Civic Square. Wellington, New Zealand. 2003
'I Never Can Say Goodbye'. Billboard project (commissioned by LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Los Angeles, CA, USA. 1991
CURATORIAL PROJECTS (selected)
'RE:CINEMA' [video program]. Co-curator. Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia.2016
'The Screening Room' [screening series]. Co-curator. NAS Gallery / Performance Space. Sydney, Australia. 2011 – 2012
'I AM WHAT I PLAY'[music/performance/video/art series]. Co-curator. NAS Gallery –Cell Block Theatre. Sydney. 2011 – 2012
'Satellite' [exhibition]. Curator - New Zealand Pavilion. Creative Shanghai, Shanghai, China. 2006
DocNZ Film Festival - Experimental Documentary [film program]. Curator. New Zealand Film Archives. Wellington, New Zealand. 2006
'V.A.L.I.S. - Connie Samaras' [solo-artist exhibition]. Curator. The Engine Room. Wellington, New Zealand. 2006
'Open Cities' [exhibitions]. Co-curator. Para/Site Art Space. Hong Kong / Rymer Gallery, Chicago, USA. 2001
'Not On Any Map' [film series]. Curator. Film Center. Chicago, USA. 1999
Not On Any Map [exhibition]. Curator. Rymer Gallery. Chicago, USA. 1999
Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival [festival program]. Video Curatorial & Programming Committee. 1993 & 1994
CONFERENCES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS (selected)
Concordia University, Paolo Pasolini - Riprese Reprises Retakes Conference, Panelist, Montreal, Canada, 2022
University of Sussex, Disco! An Interdisciplinary Conference - screening, Brighton, UK, 2018
Coventry University, Thick Cinema - screening and presentation, Invited Artist, Coventry, UK, 2017
University of Sydney. Photography. Ontology. Conference, Co-convener & Presenter, Sydney, Australia, 2016
University of Sydney. PopCAANZ International Conference, Popular Culture Association of Australia & New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, 2016
Sydney Underground Film Festival / University of Sydney. RE:CINEMA Symposium. Sydney, Australia, 2016
Concordia University / Hexagram. Elastic S3D Space: Embodied Virtual Space Conference, Invited Researcher & Presenter, Montreal, Canada, 2016
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) – Photo & Media Dept., Invited Speaker, Valencia, CA, USA, 2015
University of Sydney – Sydney College of the Arts. Tactical Imaginary Symposium, Co-convener & Presenter, Sydney, Australia, 2015
Concordia University / Hexagram. Elastic S3D Space: Research Exchange Workshop, Invited Presenter, Montreal, Canada, 2015
University of Sydney. The Image in Question Conference, Co-convenor/Speaker, Sydney, Australia, 2014
University of Toronto – Faculty of Architecture, Invited Speaker, Toronto, Canada, 2014
Artspace. The 21st Century Artist Conference, Chair/Panelist, Sydney, Australia, 2013
University of Sydney. Art History & Film Studies Lecture Series, Invited Speaker, Sydney, Australia, 2013
Aalto University. Poetics and Politics of Documentary Film Conference, Panelist, Helsinki, Finland, 2013
University of Sydney. Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Chair/Panelist, Sydney, Australia, 2012
University of California. Artist Lecture / Screening, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, CA, USA, 2012
University of Sydney. Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts Symposium, Panelist, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia, 2011
CAST- Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania / University of Tasmania. Iteration: Again Conference, Panel Chair/Respondent, Hobart, Australia, 2011
NAS Gallery / National Art School. Art Forum Artist Lecture. Sydney, Australia, 2011
Project Space Gallery – RMIT University. DoubleTake / Time Frame, Artist Presentation, Melbourne, Australia, 2010
Monash University. Time, Transcendence, Performance Conference. Panelist, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
University of Auckland. Expanding Documentary Conference. Panelist & Convener. Auckland, New Zealand, 2009
Te Papa Museum/Massey University. One Day Sculpture Conference. Moderator. Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
Govett-Brewster Gallery. Keynote Speaker (for the exhibition 'Activating Korea'). New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2007
Danish Cultural Centre. Performance: Design Conference. Invited Panelist. Rome, Italy, 2006
Govett-Brewster Gallery. Public Lecture (in conjunction with 'From Mini-FM to Hacktivists' exhibition). New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2006
Massey University / New Zealand Film Archive, Expanding Documentary Conference. Co-convener. Wellington, New Zealand, 2006
Concordia University, Visible Evidence—XII Conference. Panelist. Montréal, Canada, 2005
Massey University / New Zealand Film Archive, Expanding Documentary Conference. Respondent /Co-convener. Wellington New Zealand, 2004
Govett-Brewster Gallery. Artist Lecture. New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2004
University of Auckland. Poetics of Exile Conference. Panelist. Auckland, New Zealand, 2003
Adam Art Gallery - Victoria University. Invited Lecturer (in conjunction with 'Dirty Pixels' exhibition). Wellington, New Zealand, 2003
University of Auckland, Documentary Matters Conference. Presenter. Auckland, New Zealand, 2002
Videotage/ Sheung Wan Centre. Invited Lecturer. Hong Kong, China, 2001
Griffith University. Visible Evidence—IX Conference. Panelist. Brisbane, Australia, 2001
Massey University. Video Star Conference. Invited Panelist. Wellington, New Zealand, 2001
Adam Art Gallery - Victoria University. Keynote Lecture (in conjunction with Video Star conference), Wellington, New Zealand, 2001
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Center for 20th Century Studies.
Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge Conference. Invited Speaker. Milwaukee, WI, USA. 1999
College Art Association. CAA Annual Conference. Panel co-chair. Los Angeles, USA, 1999
College Art Association. CAA Annual Conference, Panelist. Toronto, Canada, 1998
Columbia College - Interdisciplinary Arts Program. Visiting Artist presentation. Chicago, IL. USA, 1997
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Invited Artist. Chicago, IL. USA, 1995
College Art Association. CAA Annual Conference. Panel co-chair. NewYork, NY, USA, 1994
Art Center. Invited Artist. Pasadena, CA, USA. 1993
Society for Photographic Education. SPE Regional Conference, Chair & Panelist. Buellton, CA, USA, 1991
UCLA Film & Television Archives. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Life After Salo' Conference, Invited Speaker & Panelist. Los Angeles, USA. 1991
