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Selected Lectures, Papers and Presentations

Jul 2011	“Museums, New Media Art” EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London.	Invited keynote speaker.
May 2011	“Curating Participation” Curating Masters, HGDK University Zurich.	Invited speaker.
Mar 2011	“Curating Art After New Media: Curating as a Form of Creative Inquiry?” Edinburgh College of Art, Research Seminar Series.	Invited speaker.
Feb 2011	“Immaterial Portraits: Across Borders” Digital Portraits of Transculturalism, Centre for Creative Collaboration, Goldsmith’s College, London.	Invited speaker.
Feb 2011	“Participation and Engagement: Curating Contemporary Art after New Media” College Art Association (CAA) Conference. New York	Speaker and chair.
Oct 2010	“New Media Art” Panel chair. Museums Association Conference. Manchester.	Invited speaker.
May 2010	“Documentation, Archiving, and Interaction.” Media Libraries and Archives for the 21st Century symposium. 28-29 May. Gijon: LABoral.	Invited speaker.
Mar 2010	“Self-Institutionalisation” Institutional Critique. 26-27 March. Kassel: HGDK and Museum Friederichianum.	Invited speaker and chair.
Feb 2010	“Distributing Ourselves: New Media, Curating, Networks, and Collaborations” College Art Association (CAA) Conference. Chicago.	Speaker and chair.
Feb 2010	“Curating Behaviours.” Decoding the Digital. 4-5 February. London: Victoria and Albert Museum.	Invited speaker.
Aug 2009	With Verina Gfader, Sarah Cook and Axel Lapp “Open Bliss: Participatory, Glocal, and Protective Zones” ISEA 2009 festival. Belfast. 3 workshops.	Invited workshops.
May 2009	Gallery Tour, Environment 2.0 exhibition, 14th May, Cube Gallery, Futuresonic Festival Manchester.	Invited speaker.
Aug 2008	“How Open ....” Curating in/as Open System(s) panel, ISEA 2008 Symposium. Singapore.	Invited speaker.
Feb 2008	“Theories, Practices, Shifting Roles”, Digital Curatorship: public programming in the Information Age. 12 Feb. Newcastle: Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies, School of Arts and Cultures (ICCHS), Newcastle University.	Invited speaker.
Oct 2007	“Hybrid tools for collaboration on curatorial new media practices.” New media and art education. 25-26 Oct. Liepaja: Liepaja Pedagogical Academy.	Invited speaker.
Oct 2007	“Behaviours, Categories and Folksonomies - Archiving New Media.” Had to Be There. 16 Oct. Liverpool: FACT.	Invited speaker.
Oct 2007	“Community?” Urban Screens. 11-12 Oct. Manchester: Urban Screens.	Invited speaker.
Apr 2007	With Sarah Cook and Ele Carpenter “CRUMB Bliss Centre” Enter_Unknown Territories festival. 26-27 Apr. Cambridge: <http://www.enternet.org.uk/>.	Invited workshops.
Dec 06	‘out of the internet’ International Symposium. “Net space and physical space - hybrid practices.” Brisbane, Australia: MAAP/ANAT.	Invited keynote speaker.
Nov 06	ENGAGE: Interaction, Art and Audience Experience. “Participatory Systems.” Sydney, Australia: University of Technology.	Invited keynote speaker.
Nov 06	Fast Forward: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media. [panel presentation] Cook, Sarah Ele Carpenter and Beryl Graham “Approaches to the Practice of Curating New Media Art .” London: CHArt, Computers and the History of Art.	Paper.
Jul 06	ARLIS (Art Librarians) Annual Conference. “Databases and Art.” Newcastle: University of Northumbria.	Invited speaker.
Apr 06	Art-Place-Technology: International Symposium on Curating New Media Art, [chair] “Charlie Gere presentation/discussion.” Liverpool: Liverpool School of Art & Design and FACT Centre.	Invited chair.
Jan 06	HGKZ Curating Visiting Lecturer Series. “Curating net art.” Zurich: Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich (HGKZ).	Invited speaker.
Dec 05	Radiator and Digital Cultures Symposium. “Critical interaction: New media art interaction and the artworld.”	Invited speaker.
Dec 05	Adelphi Research Institute Seminar Series, Salford University. “How is new media art being presented, commissioned, collected and critiqued?”	Invited speaker.
Nov 05	a-n think tank: Curated space, Arnolfini, Bristol. Invited Think Tank participant.	Invited participant.
Aug 05	Grays School of Art Research Summer School, Aberdeen. “Dissertations.”	Invited speaker.
May 05	Revealing Practice, Wimbledon School of Art, London. Available from URL: <http://www.wimbledon.ac.uk/revealingpractice/>. “Sliding scales and namings: Art research.”	Invited speaker.
Apr 05	Museums and the Web 2005, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Available from URL: <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/graham/graham.html>. “Taxonomies of new media art: Real world namings.”	Conference paper.
Mar 05	Art Museum and Gallery Studies, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies. Visiting Lecture Series, 1st Mar. Newcastle: Newcastle University. “Presenting and curating new media art.”	Invited speaker.
Oct 04	Summit: Participate/Collaborate: Reciprocity, Design and Social Networks. Banff, Canada. “Collaborative art process and product.”	Invited speaker & wg co-chair.
Aug 04	ISEA 2004 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Helsinki. “Interaction and Audience.” Available from URL: <http://www.isea2004.net/content/presentationpage.php?id=452>. Paper, and proposer and chair of panel “Working Across Boundaries: Curating And Preserving New Media Art” including Steve Dietz, Caitlin Jones (Guggenheim,) and Sarah Cook.	Conference paper and panel.
Apr 04	BLOC new media curation seminar. Builth Wells. “Curating the characteristics of new media.”	Invited speaker.
Mar 04	F2F Seminar Series, FACT, Liverpool. “Presenting and curating new media art.”	Invited speaker.
Feb 04	Gage Seminar, Ferens Gallery, Hull. “Presenting Digital Arts”	Invited speaker.
Jan 04	Visiting Lecture Series, Newcastle University. “Curating new media art.”	Invited speaker.
Nov 03	Critical Forum: Caught in the Act, Tate Liverpool. “The opposite of live: new media art.”	Invited speaker.
Aug 03	FILE Symposium, Sao Paolo (Brazil). "Curators and Researchers as a Network".	Invited speaker.
Jul 03	Commonwealth Institute, London. "Curating Digital Arts: Digital Art Panel Event".	Invited speaker.
May 03	Cornerhouse, Manchester. "Discussion lists: CRUMB and wider".	Invited speaker.
Mar 03	Northumbria University, Newcastle. "Virtual Museums and other tactics".	Invited speaker.
Oct 02	Liverpool John Moores University. "The problems of showing new media art".	Invited speaker.
Jul 02	British Interactive Group Conference, Herstmonceux. "Interactive artworks: a critical view."	Invited Keynote Speaker.
Apr 02	The Exploratorium, San Francisco (USA) "Art/Science issues."	Invited speaker.
Apr 02	University of Nevada, Reno (USA). "Challenges for curating new media art"	Invited speaker.
Apr 02	Mills College (USA). "New media art and publishing"	Invited speaker.
Apr 02	San Jose State University (USA). "European media art"	Invited speaker.
Oct 01	I'll show you mine … Workshop on new media spaces. The Media Centre, Huddersfield. "Summary session."	Invited speaker.
Oct 01	Coventry University. "New media art, new media curating."	Invited speaker.
Mar 01	Museums and the Web 2001. Seattle (USA). "Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss".	Paper.
Dec 00	Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore (India). "Interactive digital art"	Invited speaker.
Nov 00	Use Nor Ornament exhibition discussion. Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.	Invited participant.
Jul 00	Doctoral Education in Design: Foundations for the future, La Clusaz (France). '"What could art learn from design, what might design learn from art?"	Paper.
Mar 00	Laing Art Gallery lunchtime talk. "Playing for Keeps: Fun, Art and Seriousness."	Invited speaker.
Jan 00	University of Washington, Advanced Arts Technology (USA). "Curatorial Practice and New Media".	Invited speaker.
Nov 99	Bakhtinian Perspectives conference, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim. "A Dialogue with an Idiot? Some Interactive Computer-Based Art Installations."	Invited speaker.
Sep 99	Navigating Intelligence/Curating New Media Symposium, Banff Centre for the Arts, (Canada). "Interactivity lo-tech/hi-tech"	Invited presenter.
July 99	Matrix art research conference, St. Martin's School of Art, London. "Hybrid Rigour or Strange Beasts: The University of Sunderland Experience."	Paper.
May 99	Newcastle University, Newcastle. "Practice-Led Art Research at Sunderland."	Invited speaker.
Feb 99	Exchange 99 conference, UWE, Bristol. "Practice-Led or Theorised Practice? The University of Sunderland Experience."	Paper.
Feb 99	Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. "Formal Art Research" on panel for Current Research exhib talk.	Invited speaker.
Nov 98	Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, (Russia) "Interactive Artworks in Serious Games"	Invited speaker.
Sep 98	ISEA 98, Manchester "Irony: Some Rust-Belt Art"	Paper.
Jun 98	CADE Postgrad, Sheffield Feedback panel, postgraduate art-practice research presentations.	On invited panel.
May 98	Research Training Initiative, BIAD, Birmingham "Art-Practice-Based Research at Sunderland"	Invited speaker.
Jan 98	Napier University, Edinburgh "Narrative and Interactive Art"	Invited speaker.
Feb 97	Slade School of Art, London "Serious Games"	Invited speaker.
Feb 97	Middlesex University, London "Interactive art Ph.D. research"	Invited speaker.
Nov 96	Engage Conference, Newcastle "Interactive art: Interaction in process or product?"	Invited speaker.
Feb 96	Teeside University "Interactive art: Real Fictions"	Invited speaker.
Apr 95	VideoPositive Seminars, Tate Gallery, Liverpool "Games of Art, War ... and Intimacy"	Invited speaker.
Feb 95	Museum of the Moving Image (BFI), London "Interactive Digital Art from the USA"	Paper.
Oct 94	Leeds International Film Festival Censorship Conference "Pornography, Censorship and the New Media"	Invited speaker.
Oct 94	Seeing the Light conference, Birmingham "Fear of Computers: Grasping the Technology"	Invited speaker.
Aug 94	ISEA Internat. Sympos. on Electronic Art, Helsinki (Fin) "Choices: Gender Issues for Electronic Art" (Paper accepted but unable to attend)	Paper.
Feb 94	Museum of the Moving Image (BFI), London "Interactive Art and Gender"	Invited speaker.
Nov 93	Artec Digital Dreams Conference, Newcastle "Interactive Art and Gender"	Invited speaker.
Sep 93	The British National Photography Conference, Bristol "Gender and Interactivity"	Invited speaker.
Jul 93	Montage 93 Festival, Rochester NY (USA) "Eye Openers: British Educational Photography and New Technology"	Paper.
Apr 93	The Exploratorium, San Francisco (USA) "New Technologies, New Families: Interactive Photo Artists"	Paper.
Oct 92	Wayne State Uni & Urban Inst. Cont. Arts (USA) "Post-Industrial Images: New tactics from Britain's Rust-belt"	Invited speaker.
Mar 92	S.P.E. National Conference, Washington D.C. (USA) "Photography in Post-Iron-Curtain, Post-Colonial Europe"	Paper.
Sep 91	Nottingham Polytechnic "Contemporary Photography Practices from West-Coast USA & Canada"	Invited speaker.
Jun 91	Photoscape Festival, San Francisco (USA) "Channel Crossings: Current issues for Photography in Europe"	Invited speaker.

Selected Media Appearances

3.3.98	Get With IT, BBC World Service Computer art interview.
10.7.97	Culture, KISS TV Serious Games exhibition interview.
7.7.97	Global Village, Sky Computer Channel Serious Games exhibition interview.
26.2.97	Soundbyte, BBC World Service Computer art interview.
21.11.96	Look North, Channel 3 Serious Games exhibition interview.
13.9.94	Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4 Digital photography.
6.2.92	Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4. Photography in the North East.
18.7.91	Degrees North, Tyne Tees Television Photography and digital imaging.

 

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