Conference Papers

'Photography and Climate Change: Beyond the Sublime Image of Disaster' at 'Environmental Politics and Conflict in an Age of Digital Media', University of Tasmania, Hobart, 17-18 November 2011.

'Social Space in the Age of Networked Photography' at 'Photography as Crime', Centre for Contemporary Photography, 15 October 2011.

'The Rhetoric of the JPEG' at '17th International Symposium on Electronic Art', Istanbul, Turkey, 14 – 21 September 2011.

'Is Australian Photography Global?' at 'The World and World-Making in Art: Connectivities and Differences', ANU, Canberra, August 2011.

'The Rhetoric of the JPEG' at 'The Versatile Image: Photography in the Era of Web 2.0', University of Sunderland, UK, June 2011.

'Is Australian Photography Global?' at 'Subject and Object in 21st Century Photography', Art Gallery of New South Wales, April 2011

'Archiving Affects', Feeling Photography Conference, University of Toronto, October 16-17, 2009.

'Voyeurism and Otherness: The Public Testimony of Cherine Fahd' at Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu, the 2008 Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, 4–6 December 2008.

'Cherine Fahd: The Privacy of the Public' at Out of Bounds: Art, Faith & Religiosity, Monash University, 20–23 August 2008.

'The Critical Ambivalence of Play', International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Singapore, 25-29 July 2008.

'Beauty in Photography (or the Ambivalence of Ugliness)', Fotofreo, Fremantle Maritime Museum, 6 April 2008.

'Global Visions, Local Contemporaneity: Video Art in Australia' at CIHA Melbourne 2008: 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) 2008 (in session Contemporaneity in Art and its History, Chaired by Professor Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh and Associate Professor Charles Green, The University of Melbourne), University of Melbourne 18 January 2008.

'Media Art and Its Critics in the Australian Context' at re:place – Second International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science, and Technology, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 15–18 November 2007.

'Simryn Gill: Photography and the Ruins of Colonialism', at Global Photographies: Histories, Theories, Practices, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland, 27–29 June 2007.

'Embodying Judgment: New Media and Art Criticism' at CHArt – Fast Forward: Art history, Curation and Practice after Media, Birkbeck College, University of London, 9–10 November 2006.

'Walter Benjamin, Photography and Art Criticism' at Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity, UTS, 17–19 August 2006.

'Write to Exist' at 'Thinking the Future: Art, Design and Creativity', The Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, 27–29 September 2006.

'Photography: The Democratic Witness?' presented at Witness A Photography Symposium, The School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 20 September 2003.

'The Paradox of User Control' presented at the Digital Art and Culture conference, RMIT University, 22 May 2003.

'Please Choose an Application to do News: Updating Media Theory', presented at 'Taking Stock: Media Studies at the Millennium', Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Sheffield University, 7-9 January 2000.

'Digital Media and the Perception of Historical Time' presented at the English with Cultural Studies Department Postgraduate Seminar Series, 6 November 1998.

'Michel de Certeau and the Procedures of Memory', presented at 'De Certeau: A Symposium', University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29-31 January 1998.

'From the Banal to the Mundane: The Fifth Element and Everyday Historiography', presented at 'Disturbing Boundaries', University of Melbourne, 27-28 November 1997.

Forums

Co-Chair, with Larissa Hjorth, 'Intimate Publics', Asialink in association with Melbourne Festival, 18 October 2011.

Chair, 'Inspired Acts of Co-Creation: On Collaboration', Melbourne Art Fair / National Gallery of Victoria, 4 August 2010.

Co-Chair, 'World Picturing, Placemaking and Connectivity', with Charles Green, at 'Contemporaneity and Art', VCA/University of Melbourne, 23 July 2010.

'Portraiture and Contemporary Photography' (with Helen Ennis and Robyn Stacy and Chair Dr. Christopher Chapman), National Portrait Gallery, 9 May 2009.

'On Art Criticism' at 'Life After University – Eat Your Words: Arts Writing', QUT Art Museum, 6 May 2009, with Timothy Morrell and Laura Murray Cree.

'Andreas Gursky Colloquium: Philosophies, Histories and Ontologies', 'Photography and Globalisation' (with Claudia Terstappen and Sean Cubitt), National Gallery of Victoria, 22 February 2009.

'Dance, Performance And Photography: Documentary Or Collaboration?', Centre for Contemporary Photography (Chair, with Trevor Carlson, Anne Marsh, David Rosetzky, Ben Speth), 20 October 2007.

'Documenta 12', Documenta Picnic, Monash University, 4 October 2007.

'Australian Contemporary Art', with Russell Storer, Rachel Kent and Alexie Glass, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, 20 June 2007.

'Photography in the Expanded Field: A Discussion of Photography Today', with Kyla McFarlane, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Darren Sylvester and Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 28 April 2007.

'Medium Without Memory', with Liz Hughes, Peter Callas and Alessio Cavalaro (Chair), as part of the Pompidou Video Art exhibition, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 25 March 2007.

'Dr Palmer and Robert Buckingham in Conversation: Australian Fashion Photography', State Library of Victoria, 4 September 2006.

'Blindness and Insight: Futures for Art Criticism', Melbourne Art Fair Forum (Chair, with Robert Nelson, Justin Paton, Lily Hibberd & Massimiliano Gioni), NGV International, 2 August 2006.

'The Paradox of Photography' for 'Is photography driving the regeneration of contemporary art?', with Sally Butler (Chair), Jill Barker, Rosemary Hawker and Carl Warner, University of Queensland Art Museum (Mayne Centre), 17 June 2006.

'War and Photography' (Chair, with Peter Davis, Matthew Sleeth and Jason South) part of the Public Image 2004 lecture series, Centre for Contemporary Photography and The Australian Centre, 27 October 2004.

'Relational Aesthetics' (Chair, with A Constructed World, Laetitia Bourget and Stuart Koop) part of the Public Image 2004 lecture series, Centre for Contemporary Photography and The Australian Centre, 11 August 2004.

'Fashion Photography Now' (Chair, with Simone Elder, Ellie Rennie and Lyndal Walker) as part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival presented with Centre for Contemporary Photography, 19 March 2004.

'Digital Photography: Conservation and Collecting', (Chair, with Katy Glen, Angeletta Leggio, Sarrah Shapley and Les Walkling) part of Photogenic, Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2003 Lecture Series, 8 October 2003.

'Art + Film Forum' (Chair, with Philip Brophy, Brendan Lee and Clare Stewart) part of Photogenic, Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2003 Lecture Series, in association with the 2003 Melbourne International Film Festival, 6 August 2003.

'Fashion Journalism', Plenary panel with Natasha Inchley (News Editor, Vogue Australia), Catherine Lumby (University of Sydney) and Edwina McCann (Fashion editor, The Australian), chaired by John Hartley (Professor, QUT), at 'Making an Appearance: An International Conference on Fashion, Dress, and Consumption', Brisbane (QUT and University of Queensland), 11 July 2003.

'Popular photography: Why is photography enjoying such interest?', at Refocus: Current Directions in Photography (with Isobel Crombie, Peter Hill and Deborah Paauwe), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 2 May 2003.

'Fashion and Photography', (Chair, with Anita Beaney, Justin Clemens, Susan Dimasi and Fabio Ongarato), at fortyfivedownstairs, as part of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival presented with Centre for Contemporary Photography, 21 March 2003.

'Curating the Digital', Lecture and Workshop Presentation in the Ignite Curatorial Workshop, 24Hr Art & NT University, Darwin, 19-20 October 2002.

'Picturing the Digital', (Chair, with Alessio Cavallaro, Linda Erceg & Keely Macarow) part of Photo-Synthesis, Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2002 Lecture Series, 18 September 2002.

'Views: Has 'photography' become the medium of choice for contemporary art practice?', Ian Potter Art Museum, with Karen Burns and Les Walkling, Chair Dr Chris McAuliffe, Thursday 23 May 2002.

'Real Fantastic: Issues in Contemporary Australian Photography' (with Bernice Murphy, Anne Ferran and Anne Marsh) to accompany the exhibition Lightness of Being: Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia, Monash University Gallery, 30 May 2001.

'Critical Immersion' (Chair, with Lara Travis, Karen Burns and Justin Clemens) part of Sensorama, Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2000 Lecture Series, 4 September 2000.

Invited Lectures

'Contemporary Australian Photography' at Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography (LGC), Leuven University, Belgium, 27 June 2011.

'Andreas Gursky & Contemporary Photography: Short Course', National Gallery of Victoria, 5, 12 & 19 February 2009.

'Voyeurism and Otherness: The Public Testimony of Cherine Fahd' at the School of Media, Arts and Design, Westminister University, 12 November 2008.

Keynote speaker at 'Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre', Albury Regional Art Gallery, 2 June 2007.

NGV 'Like A One-Eyed Cat: American Photography in Australia', NGV International, 12 July 2006.

Joyce Evans History of Photography Seminar Series, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Five evening lectures in August 2006.

'Postmodernism' Lecture for Theoretical Frameworks, RMIT, for Archicture, Landscape and Interior Design, 9 March 2006.

Joyce Evans History of Photography Seminar Series, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Five evening lectures in August 2005.

'Photography: A New Instrument of Vision', for Art History B: Artist and Audience (107-019) School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 19 August 2004.

'Photography', for Media Histories and Cultural Studies (106-009), Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, 26 April 2004.

'Contemporary Australian Photography', Community Adult Education (CAE) as part of their 'Melbourne Artists in Conversation' series, 19 April 2004.

'Subjective or Conceptual: Documentary Photography in, and as, Art' at Fotofreo Festival of Photography, Saturday 20 March 2004.

'New Media, New Viewers', in 'Future Directions: Imagination, Instability, Impulse: Investigating New Media Art & Design' (Education program), National Gallery of Victoria, 13 February 2004.

'Australian New Media Art', for Contemporary Australian Art (107-046), School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 29 October 2003.

'Contemporary Australian Art: 1999-2003', for Contemporary Australian Art (107-046), School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 22 October 2003.

'The New Real in Photography', for 'Art in the New Millennium', Art & Visual Culture, Latrobe University, Bendigo Campus, 23 September 2003.

'Lewis Morley: Myself and I', State Library of Victoria, for VCE Arts, 10-12 September 2003.

'Photography: A New Instrument of Vision', for Art History B: Artist and Audience (107-019) School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 21 August 2003.

'Australian Photography', National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok (accompanying the exhibition Photographica Australis organised by the Australian Centre for Photography in collaboration with the Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne), 3 July 2003.

'Australian Cinema: An Introduction', for School for International Training, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 27 March 2003.

'21st Century Art', for Art History B: Artist and Audience (107-019) Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, 29 October 2002.

'The World Wide Web', for Media Histories and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, 29 October 2002.

'Australian Cinema: An Introduction', for School for International Training, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 24 October 2002.

'Australian Cinema Now', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 24 October 2002.

'The Digital Image', for Medial Histories and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, 22 October 2002.

'Digital Art', for Introduction to Digital Media (HM-104), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2 September 2002.

'Imagined Habitats: Contemporary Australian Landscape Photography', for Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, 2002 Talk Series (City Exhibition Space, Sydney) 3 July 2002.

'Photography Now: The Directorial and the Everyday', for Camera Culture (VSA3440), Monash University, 28 May 2002.

'Australian Cinema Now', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 23 May 2002.

'For Your Pleasure: Advertising, Fashion and Contemporary Photomedia', for the 2002 Biennale of Sydney (The World May Be) Fantasic, City Exhibition Space, Sydney, 16 May 2002.

'Australian Cinema: An Introduction', for School for International Training, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 21 March 2002.

'Contemporary Australian Photo-Art', Photography Studies College, 1 November 2001.

'Australian Cinema Now', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 13 September 2001.

'Digital Art', for Introduction to Digital Media (HM-104), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 27 August 2001.

'The World Wide Web', for Print to Pixels: Cultural Histories, Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, 28 May 2001.

'Australian Cinema Now', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 24 May 2001.

'Photography and the Mass Media: Photojournalism, Fashion & Advertising', for Camera Culture (VSA3440), Monash University, 25 April 2001.

'Australian Cinema Now', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 19 October 2000.

'Digital Art', for Introduction to Digital Media (HM-104), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 28 August 2000.

'Australian Cinema: Landscape to Policy', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 18 May 2000.

'The Death of Art', Preferred Futures Forum, Next Wave Festival 2000, The Lounge, Melbourne, 14 May 2000.

'Australian Photography & New Media Art: Patricia Piccinini, Justine Cooper and Darren Sylvester', for Video Theory (Margaret Morse), University of California, Santa Cruz, 27 January 2000.

'The Australian Cinematic Landscape', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 7 October 1999.

'TV News and Infotainment' for Contemporary Culture and Media (106-101), Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, 24 May 1999.

'Celluloid Citizenship: Australian Cinema at the Millennium', for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301) The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 29 April 1999.

'Quaint, Queer and Quirky: Australian Cinema' for Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions (100-201/301), The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 17 September 1998.

Other Presentations – Opening Speaker, Floortalks, Media Interviews

'Time and Otherness', Floor talk at National Gallery of VIctoria on 'Timelines: Photography and Time', 22 May 2010

'Simryn Gill', Floor talk at Centre for Contemporary Photography, 5 December 2009.

Invited Art Critic at 'Eat Your Words, Emerging Writers Workshop', Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane, 7 May 2009.

Chair, 'Institutional Criticism or Institutionalised Criticism?' session with Gerald Raunig at Spaces of Art Conference, Artspace, 17–18 April 2009.

Panel member for discussions in the Monash Faculty of Art & Design Women Artists in Residence, including Selina Ou (26 April 2007), Danielle Freakley (30 August 2007) and Arlene Textaqueen (20 May 2008).

Radio Interview on the Bill Henson controversy, World Today (ABC Radio), 28 May 2008.

'Richard Billingham' Floor Talk at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 17 February 2008.

Opening Speaker, ‘Places of Being’, Brunswick Art Space, 28 October 2007.

Opening Speaker, Albury National Photography Prize, 'Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre', 1 June 2007 (also Judge).

Opening Speaker at 'Mesh', Curated by Joyce Spiller at SPAN Gallery, 11 April 2007.

Anne Zahalka Floor Talk, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 31 March 2007.

Opening Speaker at Polixeni Papapetrou, Haunted Country, Nellie Castan Gallery, 3 February 2007.

Gillian Wearing Floor Talk, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 8 October 2006.

Interview with Amanda Smith and Peter Timms on Radio National 'The Deep End', 4 May 2006.

'Bill Henson: Landscapes of Desire', floortalk at National Gallery of Victoria, 29 May 2005.

'Surrealism' on ABC Radio National (producer Kate Bockner), recorded 19 May 2005.

Opening Speaker at David Noonan: Films and Paintings 2001–2005, Monash University Museum of Art, 16 April 2005.

Opening Speaker for Penumbra: Images of Darkness and Light, Curated by Robert Lindsay at McClelland Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 10 October 2004.

Interviewed on SBS World News about the death of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, 5 August 2004.

Launch speech for H2W2 'How to Where to' Australia Council Guide, Next Wave Festival, 27 May 2004 (with Fenella Kernebone).

Opening Speaker for M33 Bottom Line exhibition at Span Galleries, Melbourne, 30 March 2004.

Interview by Peter Clarke for ABC radio 774 Sunday Show on fashion photography, Guy Bourdin and Madonna, Sunday 14 March 2004.

Interviewed on ABC TV News Saturday 24 January 2004 on the death of fashion photographer Helmut Newton

Participant in colloquium 'Australian Art, Craft and New Media Now: Aesthetics, Nation and Politics' at the Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, organised by Charles Green and Caroline Turner, 25 February 2004.

'Photography and Nostalgia', ABC Radio, interviewed by Peter Scott, 21 December 2003.

'Photomedia in Orifice', Floortalk with Kate Rhodes at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 9 November 2003.

'Lewis Morley: Myself and I', Floortalks at the State Library of Victoria, 24 September, 8 & 25 October 2003.

Interviewed by Habib Massad for SBS Dateline on Korda's iconic 1960 photograph of Che Guevara, screened 9 July 2003.

'The Role of the CCP Website' for the Graduate Diploma of Arts Management course, University of Melbourne, 26 May 2003.

'BIG Magazine', Radio National's Nightclub, with Bill Leak, Russell Storer & Martha Camarillo, 4 November 2002.

'Documentary Panel Discussion', Radio National's Nightclub, with Libbi Gorr and Matthew Sleeth, Clare Williamson and Jennifer, 6 September 2002.

'On the Photography Market', Radio National's Breakfast Show with Vivian Shenker and Annette Larkin, 3 July 2002.

'Issues in Contemporary Australian Photo-art', Industry Orientation Seminar, Photography Studies College, 23 March 2002.

'Exhibiting Online Art', Seminar – How to Win Awards and Influence People!, Open Channel, 16 March 2002.

Guest Photography Judge at North Melbourne Institute of TAFE, 12 October 2001.

'Click Regional Digital Art Program Education Kit Launch for School Teachers' at Bendigo Art Gallery, 20 August 2001.

'In-Transit', Guest Speaker at Exhibition Launch of Tejal Shah's 'In-Transit' at RMIT Viscom9 Gallery, 16 November 2000.