current engagements
January - April, 2009
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Humanities Institute, SUNY/Buffalo, USA
September 12, 2009
Presenter [along with Peter Galison and James Turrell] in Public Symposium on Art/Science/Spectacle, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Closing Lecture: "Olafur Eliasson's New Devices of Wonder," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
September 14, 2009
Keynote Address, for FAll Faculty Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
October 7-13, 2009
Lectures on the "Future of Art History," for Department of Cultural Studies in conjunction with Department of Cognitive Sciences, Lund, Sweden, and Department of Art History , University of Copenhagen
October 22-25, 2009
Keynote Address on "Reciprocity and Neural Darwinism," Conference on Reframing Dawin: Evolution, Art, and Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
November 6-7, 2009
Invited Speaker, The Image in Science, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden
November, 2009
Keynote address on Cognition in Conference on The Super Human: Revolution of the Species (presented in partnership with Re:live, the 3rd Media Art Histories), at the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT), Melbourne, Australia
Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia
November 19-21, 2009
Plenary Lecture, for Habitus in Habitat II. Other Sides of Cognition, organized by the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in cooperation with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, the Berlin Museum for Medical History and the Association of Neuroaesthetics , Berlin
November 23, 2009
"From Wonder to Insight: Uncommon Arrangements and Smart Things," A Conversation with David Wilson, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
February 5, 2010
Keynote Address, "Methods: Visual , Technological, Narrative, Social," for 50th Anniversary Celebration of College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
March, 2010
Advisor and Panelist for Online Symposium, "Evolution and Culture", The office of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), USA
Member of Evolution Advisory Committee, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. to advise on forthcoming on-line Symposium, Evolution and Visual Culture
March 12, 2010
Plenary Lecture, Sixth Annual Life Sciences & Society Symposium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
July, 2010
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Warwick, England