VISUAL CULTURE
Jon Bird: CV
Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Middlesex University
EDUCATION
1962-1963 – Leicester University (Philosophy)
1963-1964 – Leicester Polytechnic (Pre-Diploma Studies)
1963-1967 – Central School of Art & Design (BA Fine Art, Sculpture, 1st)
1967-1968 – Chelsea School of Art (Higher Diploma in Art, Sculpture, Distinction)
1974-1978 – North East London Polytechnic and London University, PhD studies (Completed but not submitted)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1997- – Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Middlesex University
1997-2001 – Tutor, Theory Department, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Nederlands
1993 – Reader in Visual Culture, Programme Leader MA Visual Culture, Middlesex University
1993-1999 – Visiting Tutor in Critical Studies, Visual Arts Administration, Royal College of Art
1991-1993 – Principal Lecturer in History of Art and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
1981-1991 – Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
1978-1981 – Part-Time lecturer in History of art and Design, Central School of Art and Design
1977-1981 – Part-Time lecturer in history of Art and Design, Middlesex Polytechnic
1976-1978 – Senior Lecturer, Head of Foundation studies, East Ham College of Technology
1972-1976 – Lecturer in Foundation Studies, East Ham College of Technology
1971-1974 – Part-Time course tutor, School of Architectural History & Theory, Polytechnic of Central London
1970-1971 – Part-Time lecturer, Foundation Studies and Fine Art, Croydon College of Art
1968-1970 – Lecturer in Foundation Studies, Mid-Warwickshire College of Further Education. Visiting lecturer, Coventry College of Art
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
2004 – School of Visual Arts, New York; Cooper Union School of Arts, New York
2003 – Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria; Aula de Estetica, Universidad da la Laguna, Teneriffe
2003 – School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Speaker
2000/1997 – Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Nederlands
1997 – Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1995/1997 – School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1994 – Rutgers University, Mason Gros School of the Arts, New Jersey, USA
1994 – Cooper Union School of the Arts, New York, USA
1993 – Dipartimento Di Studi Letterari E Linguistica Dell’Occidente, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, Italy
1992 – Ludwig-Uhland-Institut fur empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Tubingen, University, Germany
1991 – University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies
1990 – Universite Saint-Denis, Paris 8, Department of Media and Communication Studies
PUBLICATIONS/RESEARCH
Books:
1996 – Jon Bird, Jo Anna Isaak, Sylvere Lotringer Nancy Spero Phaidon, London and New York
2000 – Jon Bird Leon Golub:Echoes of the Real, Reaktion Books, London
2004 – Jon Bird, Molly Nesbit, Walter Grasskamp, Hans Haacke, Phaidon, London and New York
Edited Books
2003 – Jon Bird, ed., _Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith_, Reaktion Books, London
2001 – Jon Bird and Tamar Garb (eds), On Installation, Special Issue of the Oxford Art Journal, vol.24, no.2, Oxford University Press
1999 – Jon Bird and Michael Newman (eds), Rewriting Conceptual Art, Reaktion, London,2000.
1999 – Jon Bird and Mignon Nixon (eds), Louise Bourgeois, Special Issue of the Oxford Art Journal, vol. 22, no.2. Oxford University Press
1996 – Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson, Lisa Tickner (eds) The Block Reader in Visual Culture, Routledge, London and New York 1996 – Jon Bird et al (as above) FutureNatural: Nature/Science/Culture, Routledge, London and New York
1994 – Jon Bird et al, _Traveller’s Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement, Routledge, London and New York
1993 – Jon Bird et al, Mapping the Futures:Local Cultures, Global Change, Routledge, London and New York
Chapters in Books (since 1990)
2004 – ‘Unscrambling Hans Haacke’s ‘Mixed Message’’ in Hans Haacke, Phaidon, London
2003 – ‘Imagining Otherworlds: Connection and Difference in the Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith’ and ‘Present Imperfect: Word and Image in Nancy Spero’s ‘Scrolls’ of the 1970s’ in Jon Bird (ed) Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Reaktion Books, London
2001 – ‘Olivo Barbieri: Through a glass, darkly…’ in Olivo Barbieri: Virtual Truths, (ed) Paola Tognon, Silvana Editoriale, Milan
2000 – ‘Memory’s Touch:The Art of Louise Bourgeois’ in D.Green and P.Seddon (eds) History Painting Reassessed, Manchester University Press
2000 – ‘Massimo Vitali’ in Patrick Remy (ed) Massimo Vitali: Beach and Disco, Steidl, Zurich
1999 – ‘Introduction’ and ‘Minding the Body:Robert Morris’s 1971 Tate Gallery Retrospective’ in Bird and Newmman (eds), _Rewriting Conceptual Art…
1997 – ‘Nancy Spero’, Louise Bourgeois’ essays for the Dictionary of Women Artists, Delia Gaze (ed), Titzroy Dearborn, London
1996 – ‘Dolce Domum’, in Rachel Whiteread’s HOUSE, James Lingwood (ed), Phaidon, London and New York
1996 – ‘Art History and Hegemony’, in The Block Reader in Visual Culture, (as above)
1994 – ‘Making Visible:Difference and Representation in the Work of Alfredo Jaar’, in New Art From Latin America: Expanding the Continent, Oriana Baddeley (ed), Academy Group, London
1993 – ‘Dystopia on the Thames’, in Mapping the Futures….(as above)
1992 – ‘Holiday Snaps’, in Nothing Bloody Stands Still, vol.1, Geke van Dijk, Karel Koch, Mark Schoondorp (eds), Amsterdam Cultural Studies Foundation, The Netherlands
1990 – ‘The Times They Are A’Changing: Art and Postmodernism’, in A New Necessity, Declan McGonagle (ed), First Tyne International publications, Newcastle
Refereed Articles
2003 – ‘The Mote in God’s Eye: 9/11 Then and Now’, Journal of Visual Culture, vol.2 no.1
1999 – ‘Nova Descriptio: On Jan Vermeer’s “The Geographer�?, Parallax 13
1997 – ‘The Politics of Public Art’, Collapse 3, Vancouver Art Forum Society
1997 – ‘Infvitabile Fatum: Leon Golub’s History Painting’, Oxford Art Journal, Vol 20,no 1
1996 – ‘Museum Culture’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol.1 no.4
1988 – ‘L’etat de l’art:l’art de l’Etat’, Les Cahiers Du Musee National D’Art Moderne, vol.22
1987 – ‘Nancy Spero’s “Torture of Women�? ‘, Sulfur Magazine, Spring ‘87, Eastern Michigan University.
Catalogues/Articles, etc (since 1990)
2004 – ‘(Play)Time and the Image: Massimo Vitali’s Scenes of Leisure’, cat.essay for his Retrospective Exhibition, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. June-Sept.
2002 – ‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ in Critical Nearness: Hermelinde Hergenhahn, SSN Drukkerij, Nijmegen
1999 – ‘Nova Descriptio…On Jan Vermeer’s The Geographer (1668-69)’ in parallax, Issue 13
1998 – ‘Massimo Vitali’s modernism’, ex. catalogue ‘Les rencontres Internationales de la Photographie’, Arles, France
1996 – ‘Trace and Enigma in the Work of Andrew Mansfield’, catalogue essay for his retrospective exhibition, Manchester City Art Gallery
1996 – ‘A Crack in the Tea-cup: Leon Golub’s History Painting’, catalogue essay for Leon Golub and Nancy Spero retrospective exhibition for the Hiroshima Prize, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1992 – ‘Aus ihren Gesprach mit Jon Bird’ in Woman Breathing, Nancy Spero exh.cat., Ulmer Museum, Germany
1992 – ‘Scenes of a Difference’ in Alfredo Jaar exh.cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991 – ‘Elegies’ in Ian Brown exh.cat., Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
1990 – ‘Dystopia on the Thames’ in Art in America, July
1990 – ‘Nancy Spero: Zwischen den Zeilen – die Frau’ in Nancy Spero exhibition cat., Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (March – May) and Bonner Kunstverein (October – November), Germany
CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/PANELS (Since 1990)
2004 – Leon Golub Commemoration, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Keynote Speaker
2004 – Leon Golub’s ‘Vietnam II’, Tate Modern panel discussion
2004 – ‘Cy Twombly’ Conference: Organiser and contributor, Goethe Institute and Serpentine Gallery, London
2004 – ‘Otherworlds: Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith’ conference. Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and University of Northumberland. Keynote Speaker
2003 – Co-organizer/contributor ‘Hubert Damisch Symposium’, Oxford Art Journal and Tate Britain
2002 – ‘The Mote in God’s Eye’, conference paper – ‘ImagiNation: Visual Culture in Britain since 1945’, Tate Britain
2002 – Co-organizer/contributor ‘The Future Past of Visual Culture’, 3 themed one-day conferences, Middlesex University (Film and Visual Culture) and Tate Britain
2002 – Panelist ‘Artist’s and Contemporary Politics’, 28th Annual Conference, Association of Art Historians, University of Liverpool
2001 – Panelist Leon Golub Retrospective, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York
2000 – Co-organizer/contributor ‘Installation Art’ conference, Tate Modern, London
2000 – Panelist (with Leon Golub and Jo Ann Issak), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2000 – Chair,contributor and co-organizer ‘What is the Enlightenment?(Ch.2)’,Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
2000 – Panelist ‘Rewriting Conceptual Art’, Tate Gallery.
1999 – Chair and contributor to ‘Reverberations:Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in Trans-Cultural Practices’ Symposium, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
1997 – ‘Art and the Public Sphere’ for The Vancouver Art Forum Society Lecture Series, ‘Traces, Spaces and Public Places’, Vancouver, Canada
1996 – ‘In Conversation’ series, Hans Haacke with Jon Bird a nd Michael Newman, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1995 – ‘Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?’ Conference, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Chair and co-organizer (with Michael Newman).
1994 – ‘The Future of Nature’ Conference, Block and the Tate Gallery, Co-organizer (published as FutureNatural…)
1994 – ‘Rachel Whiteread’s “uncanny�? House’, paper for panel discussion ‘Excavating the House’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1993 – Panelist – ‘Curatorial Practice and Theory’, University of Leeds, Department of Fine Art
1993 – Panelist – Roundtable Discussion ‘A Tate Gallery of Modern Art: the Bankside Development’, Tate Gallery, London.
1993 – ‘Art and Politics’, paper for conference on Art and Politics, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
1992 – ‘Travellers Tales’ Conference, Block and the Tate Gallery, Co-organizer and panel chair (published as Travellers Tales…).
1992 – ‘Who actually wins the Turner Prize?’ – Turner Prize Lecture, Tate Gallery.
1992 – ‘Londons Docklands and the Culture of Postmodernity’, Symposium on ‘The City’, Ludwig-Uhland-Institut fur empirische Kulturwissenschaft, University of Tubingen, Germany
1992 – ‘Is there still cultural life after the death of Modernism?’, paper for panel discussion, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1992 – ‘Scenes of a difference: Alfredo Jaar and the image of the Other’, paper for the Institiute of Historical Research 61st Anglo-American Conference: ‘Europe and the Americas 1492-1992’, Courtauld Institute, London.
1992 – ‘Theming and Identity’, paper for the European Network for Media and Cultural Studies Intensive programme: ‘Popular Entertainment in a Transnational Context’, Middlesex University.
1992 – ‘Curating: A Creative Intervention’, paper for Symposium, Riverside Studios, London.
1991 – ‘Gender in the Postmodern City’, paper for Postgraduate Intensive Seminar, Universite Saint-Denis, Paris 8
1991 – ‘Representing the Poor’, paper for Conference ‘Representing Homelessness:the paintings of Mark Wallinger’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
1991 – ‘Travellers Tales’, paper and co-organizer, University of Amsterdam Cultural Studies Intensive Programme: ‘Crossing Boundaries’, Amsterdam
1990 – ‘Mapping the Futures’ Conference, Block and the Tate Gallery. Co-organizer and panel chair (published as Mapping the Futures….)
1990 – ‘A New Necessity’, paper for symposium: First Tyne International, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1990 – ‘Postmodernism and Cultural Identity’, paper and co-organizer for Conference: ‘Transnational Media and National Identity in Europe’, Universite Saint-Denis, Paris 8 (Erasmus and the Council of Europe)
CURATING
2003-04 – Curator ‘Otherworlds: Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith’, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (December 2003 – April 2004)
2000-01 – Curator for ‘Leon Golub 1950-2000’ retrospective exhibition Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Travelling to the South London Gallery, The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York and The Brooklyn Museum, New York
2000 – Curator for Massimo Vitali ex. Hotel Gallery Art, Florence
1998 – Co-curator ‘Evil’, Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1997 – Curator for exhibition of Massimo Vitali, Photographers Gallery, London
1987 – Curator for Nancy Spero Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edingburgh; Orchard Gallery, Derry
EDITORSHIPS
2003- BLOK: The International Journal of Stalinist and Post-Stalinist Culture – Editorial Board. Wydawnictwo Akademii Bydgoskeij im.Kazimierza Wielkiego, Poland1979-1989 – Founder-Editor, Block Magazine, Middlesex University
1999-2002 – Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Nederlands
1994-2004 – Series Editor (with Lisa Tickner), ‘ReVisions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art’, in Carol Duncan, Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Museums, (1995); Jo Anna Isaak, The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter, (1996); Griselda Pollock, Differencing the Canon, (1999); Adrian Rifkin, Ingres, Then and Now, (2000), Routledge, London and New York
1994- Oxford Art Journal Editorial Board, Oxford University Press
1989-1996 – Block ‘Futures: New Perspective in Cultural Analysis’ Series – Mapping the Future…(1993), Travellers Tales…(1994), FutureNatural (1996), The Block Reader in Visual Culture (1996), Routledge, London and NY
1979-89 – Founder-Editor Block Magazine, Middlesex University