C-Vitae

Gary Laurence Nickard

Education:
2006 Doctor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Comparative Literature

2005 Master of Arts, University at Buffalo, Comparative Literature

1986 Master of Fine Arts, University at Buffalo, Studio Art

1982 Master of Arts Humanities, University at Buffalo

1978 Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, University at Buffalo

Professional History:
2011 – Present Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo

2009 – 2011 Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo

2002 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo

1995 – 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University at Buffalo

1997 – 1998 Lecturer, Department of Fine Art, Buffalo State College.

1995 Lecturer, Department of Art, University at Buffalo

1992 – 1994 Director of Programs and Curator, Artists Space, New York, NY

1992 – 1994 Guest Editor, Aperture Magazine, New York, NY – APERTURE # 134

1990 – 1991 Director of Burden Gallery and Editorial Assistant, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

1988 – 1990 Associate Curator, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1987 – 1988 Lecturer, Department of Art, University at Buffalo

1987 – 1988 Lecturer, Department of Fine Art, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, NY

1985 – 1986 Instructor, Department of Art, University at Buffalo

1982 – 1988 Executive Director / Curator, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Professional Memberships:
College Art Association
Modern Language Association
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
Society for Photographic Education

Awards, Grants and Fellowship Support:
2008 Robert G. and Carol Morris Grant for Artistic Expression in Visual Arts
2007 College of Arts And Sciences, Research Travel Grant, UB
2006 College of Arts and Sciences Publication Subvention Fund Grant, UB
2005 Individual Exhibition Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
2004 Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, International Museum of Photography
2002 Julian Park Publication Fund Grant
2001 Printing Prep Award for Digital Art, CEPA Gallery
1998 Awards for 47th Western New York Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1995 Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Light Work, Syracuse University.

Artist-In-Residence:
2009 Department of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
2009 Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio
2007 Stewart Hall Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2006 Department of Fine Art, New Jersey City University, Jersey City NJ
2004 International Museum of Photography (GEH), Rochester, NY
1995 Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

Visual Art Exhibitions:

2015

FINAL FRONTIER, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby Ontario, Canada [collaborative site-specific installation with Reinhard Reitzenstein & Patty Wallace]

2014

ACCESS: DENIED, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI and SCENE Metrospace, East Lansing, MI [two collaborative site-specific installations with designer Ben Van Dyke]

2013

ARTHOUSE, Contemporary Arts Museum, Raleigh, NC

2012

WISH YOU WERE HERE, THE BUFFALO AVANT-GARDE IN THE 1970’S, Avant-Garage Music Performance by The Vores (as art object), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY [collaborative performance plus exhibition of group recordings & ephemera]

LUCKY 13, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY

2011

VISUAL EPISTEMOLOGIES, Anderson Gallery, University At Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

SPACE WAS THE PLACE, with Patty Wallace, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA

2010

TOPSY TURVY, with Patty Wallace & Anna Scime, Beyond / In Western New
York Biennial Exhibition, The Carnegie Arts Center, Tonawanda, NY. [collaborative installation and performance]

PQ:100, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, with Reinhard Reitzenstein & Patty Wallace,
Fronczak Hall, University at Buffalo [collaborative permanent site specific installation]

2009

WRITING PICTURES, WNY Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

ARCHETIME, The Tank Space For Performing And Visual Arts, New York, NY

A MOMENT OF UNCERTAINTY, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY [one person]

WONDER ROOMS, with Reinhard Reitzensein & Patty Wallace, Niagara
Science Museum, Niagara Falls, NY [collaborative permanent site specific installation]

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE GERALD MEADE COLLECTION, Department of
Visual Studies Gallery, University at Buffalo

WUNDERKAMMERN, with Reinhard Reitzenstein, Olin Gallery, Kenyon
College, Gambier, OH [collaboration]

2008

MICRO COSMIC, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts,
University at Buffalo

GATEWAYS: SPACE, PLACE AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE, Burchfield-Penney
Arts Center, Buffalo State College

PHENOMENA(L), SPACES, Cleveland, OH

2007

VEGETABLE RITES / BIRDS IN THE MOON, with Reinhard Reitzenstein &
Patty Wallace, Stewart Hall Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [collaboration]

NOUMENA(L), New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and
Life Sciences, University at Buffalo [one person permanent installation on 3rd floor]

FUTURE ARTEMI, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2006

PHYSICS AND ART, with Reinhard Reitzenstein, Fronczak Hall, University at
Buffalo [collaborative permanent site specific installation]

PLUTO’S CAVE, MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE, with Reinhard
Reitzenstein & Robert Hirsch, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City,
NJ [collaboration]

ART OTHERNESS, Department of Visual Studies Gallery, University at Buffalo

THINK INK, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo State College

2005

PLUTO’S CAVE, MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE, with Reinhard
Reitzenstein & Robert Hirsch, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY [collaboration]

THE EDUCATED EYE, Fineline Gallery, Buffalo, NY

ARTIST WORK, CEPA GALLERY AT 30, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

ARTIST WORK, CEPA GALLERY AT 30, Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media
Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

2004

THE REMARKABLE GEORGE EASTMAN: VISION AND OBSESSION,
biographical exhibition with Rick Hock and Cathy Connor, George Eastman House / International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY [collaboration]

2003

POTLATCH, 438 Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY [one person]

2002

LET THE WORK BEGIN / THEATRUM CHEMICUM, with Reinhard Reitzenstein,
University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo [collaboration]

BIG ORBIT GALLERY: 10 YEARS OF SPIN ON WESTERN NEW YORK ART,
Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo

A SECOND LOOK: SELECTIONS FROM FOUR DECADES OF WESTERN NEW YORK ARTISTS, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo State College

ALL THAT YOU CAN (AND DID) LEAVE BEHIND, Hallwalls Contemporary Art
Center, Buffalo, NY

2001

WELCOME TO THE PLAYGROUND OF THE FEARLESS, Deitch Projects,
New York, NY

EXPOSE YOURSELF, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND DRAWINGS, Artists Space, New York, NY

2000

CULTURE & CONFLICT: THE NORTH OF IRELAND, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

OPEN FILE, Untitled (Space), New Haven, CT

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND DRAWINGS, Artists Space, New York, NY

1999

BUFFALO 6, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo State College

FACULTY EXHIBITION, Center for Art + Culture, University at Buffalo

ICONS & RELICS, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

1998

LEVIATHAN, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY [one person]

FROM PICTORIALISM TO POST-MODERNISM, WORKS FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION, Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo State College

THE 47th WESTERN NEW YORK EXHIBITION, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY

THE SHOWER BATH OF THE PATRIARCHS: A PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF
BUFFALO
, with Patty Wallace, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY [collaboration]

CULTURE & CONFLICT: BRITISH ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND, The Puffin
Room Gallery, New York, NY

THE AGENCY OF MEANING, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State
College

SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Castellani Art Museum,
Niagara University, Lewiston, NY

BUFFALO 6, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

1997

IN WESTERN NEW YORK 1997, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

ARBEITEN AUF PAPIER, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich, Germany

1996

ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY AND ALUMNI EXHIBITION, Research Center in
Art + Culture, University at Buffalo

ALTERNATIVE IMAGE, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

1995

ART + TECHNOLOGY, Waldemar A. Schmidt Gallery, Fine Arts Center,
Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

ALTERNATIVES: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
1975-1995,
 Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College

Public Collections:
Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo State College
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Lewiston, NY
Department of Physics, Fronczak Hall, University at Buffalo
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, NY
Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
New York State Center Of Excellence In Bioinformatics And Life Sciences
Poetry and Rare Books Collection, University at Buffalo
Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo

Exhibition Catalogs:
2010 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, essay by myself

2009 WUNDERKAMMERN, Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, essay by Karen Elliot

2008 PHENOMENA(L), SPACES, Clevland, Ohio, essay by Kate Budd

VEGETABLE RITES / BIRDS IN THE MOON, Stewart Hall Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, essay by Joyce Millar

2007 MONSTERS OF NATURE AND DESIGN, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, essay by myself

2006 PLUTO’S CAVE, MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE, Big Orbit Gallery, essays by James Bono and Henry Sussman

2005 ARTIST WORK, CEPA GALLERY AT 30, Contact Sheet Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, essay by Jeff Hoone & interview with Robert Hirsch

2002 LET THE WORK BEGIN: THEATRUM CHEMICUM, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, essay by Henry Sussman

BIG ORBIT GALLERY: 10 YEARS OF SPIN ON WESTERN NEW YORK ART, Anderson Gallery, essay by Elizabeth Licata

2000 UNLIMITED PARTNERSHIPS, CEPA Gallery, essays by Grant Kester and others

1999 5000 ARTISTS RETURN TO ARTISTS SPACE, 25 YEARS, Artists Space, various essays and gallery history

RUINS IN REVERSE, TIME AND PROCESS IN CONTEMPORARY ART, CEPA Gallery, essays by Grant Kester, Eduardo Cadava, Peter Osborne, Susan Buck-Morss

1998 THE 47th WESTERN NEW YORK EXHIBITION, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, essay by Paul Ha, Director of the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum

WHITE LIGHT – WHITE HEAT: GARY NICKARD’S LEVIATHAN, Big Orbit Gallery, essay by Karen Elliot

1997 IN WESTERN NEW YORK EXHIBITION 1997,Albright-Knox Art Gallery, essay by Cheryl Brutvan, Senior Curator and Marc Mayer Curator

1996 CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVES, 20 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT HALLWALLS, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Interview with Ronald Ehmke

Performance Art Projects:

2016 SIGNAL:NOISE, Live Performance of the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, original new music / noise on the theme of “Laika the Space Dog.” Science & Art Cabaret 17.0, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2014 A/V IMBROGLIO REDUX, Archive Clips & Live Performance of the Vores avant-garage art rock band, for Hallwalls 40th Anniversary Event, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2014 SILENT/SOUND, with the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, sonic interpretation of silent experimental films by Ralph Steiner, Fernand Leger and Man Ray, Squeeky Wheel Media Art Center & Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2014 TRANSFORMERS, with the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, interpretation of four Andy Warhol produced songs by the Velvet Underground, Nietzsche’s, Buffalo, NY

2012 PARASITE, directed by Craig Smith & Dave Copenhaver, with the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2010 TOPSY TURVY, directed by myself with performers Anna Scime & Patty Wallace, Carnegie Art Center, Tonawanda, NY

2009 MONSTERS OF NATURE AND DESIGN III, directed by myself with performers Craig Smith, Colin Beatty, & Reinhard Reitzenstein, the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2008 MONSTERS OF NATURE AND DESIGN II, directed by myself with performers George Hughes & Reinhard Reitzenstein, the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2007 MONSTERS OF NATURE AND DESIGN I, directed by myself with performers Reinhard Reitzenstein, the Vores avant-garage art rock band & friends, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and Righteous Babe Records, Buffalo, NY

Book Publications:

2015 FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY VISUAL CULTURE, The Terror as Political Sublime, ISBN: 978-3-659-60980-0, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany

2015 THE NEVER-NEVER CODEX, Applied Chaordic Geometry, edited by Ben Van Dyke, ISBN: 978-0-9889915-1-4 Design Inquiry, Vinalhaven, ME

2014 PHENOMENAL SURFACES AND NOUMENAL DEPTHS, Philosophy and Quantum Theory, ISBN: 978-3-659-66927-9, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany

2011 INFINITE INSTANCES, STUDIES AND IMAGES OF TIME, edited by Olga Ast, Buzz Poole & Eli Stockwell, ISBN: 978-1-9356132-1-3, Mark Batty Publisher, Brooklyn, NY

1998 MONUMENTS TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, Photographs by Charles Agel, Text by Gary Nickard, ISBN/ISSN: 0-89822-122-6 Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY

Published Journal Articles & Exhibition Catalog Essays:

2014 LAMENTATIONS AND LEAVES OF GRASS, MILLIE CHEN: TOUR, The Senses & Society, Volume 9, Issue 3, November, ISBN: 978-1-4742-2186-3, Bloomsbury, London, UK

2010 PHILOSOPHY IN THE DUNGEON: THE EROTIC ECONOMY OF THANATOS, Erotic Economies #1: Summer 2010, University at Buffalo, Department of Media Study

2009 A MOMENT OF UNCERTAINTY, Plastik #01- Etre ici et là : la relativité générale et la physique quantique, ISSN: 2101-023 – CERAP Université Paris 1 Sorbonne

2008 PHYSICS AND ART, Interactions, Fall Vol. 1 #2, University at Buffalo, Department of Physics

2007 RIPARIAN DROMOMANIA, catalog essay for the exhibition Portage: Ford Taurus by Elinor Whidden, Gallery 1716

2006 INIMICUM SPECULI, catalog essay for NO/NO painting installation by Jacob Kassay, Kitchen Distribution Gallery

2004 PHANTASMAGORIA, catalog essay for World in a Jar: War and Trauma installation by Robert Hirsch, Big Orbit Gallery

2003 MARTIN KRUCK’S GEOMANCIA, catalog essay for Geomancia exhibition by Martin Kruck, CEPA Gallery

2002 DEMOCRACY ON ICE, catalog essay for Democracy on Ice installation by Andrew Johnson, Big Orbit Gallery

2000 CULTURE AND CONFLICT: THE NORTH OF IRELAND, essay for Culture and Conflict Group installation in the Unlimited Partnerships Exhibition, CEPA Journal, Fall Issue

1999 THE SHOWER BATH OF THE PATRIARCHS, A PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF BUFFALO, essay for Ruins in Reverse Exhibition, CEPA Journal, Spring Issue

1998 THE COUNTERSPY AND THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT, catalog essay for Walker Evans: Public Photographs 1935 – 1937 exhibition, Center for Art + Culture, University at Buffalo

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ALTERNATIVE SPACES MOVEMENT? Contact Sheet Magazine 25th Anniversary Issue, Light Work, Syracuse University

1997 TECHNO-DYSTOPIA, Exposure, Volume X, #1, Journal of the Society for Photographic Education

THE NATURAL SUPERNATURAL, catalog essay for Patty Wallace exhibition, Big Orbit Gallery

1996 NATURE MORTE, catalog essay for Perfect World exhibition, Center for Art + Culture, University at Buffalo

Juried, Curated or Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations:

2015 RE-OPENING OUR MINDS, presented at the conference: The Biggest Comebacks: Tenacious Cultural Topoi, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2014 THE PENCIL OF NATURE, CRAFT IN PHOTOGRAPHY, presented at the panel discussion Disturbing the Surface, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2010 EMBRACING FAILURE AS THE INVISIBLE PARTNER OF OUR CREATIVE LIVES presented in conjunction with the panel discussion Failure In The Arts Organized and moderated by Ben Van Dyke, Professor of Design, University at Buffalo

2009 WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER EINSTEIN presented in conjunction with the panel discussion Will there ever be another da Vinci?
Organized and moderated by Dianne Bos, Artist & Curator, McMaster University. McMaster Museum of Art, Alvin A. Lee Building,
 McMaster University,
 Hamilton, ON, Canada

DIFFICULTY AND PHOTOGRAPHY, presented in conjunction with the panel discussion On the Subject of the Photographic, organized and moderated by Craig Smith at the 97th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA

PHOTOGRAPHY AND FREUD, presented at the ArcheTime Cross Disciplinary Conference and Exhibition on Time, The Tank Space For Performing And Visual Arts, New York, NY

2008 PHOTOGRAPHY AND DEATH, presented at the conference The Impossibility of Neutrality: Photography after the Document, organized and moderated by Wiebke Leister, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2006 HANNAH ARENDT vs. IMMANUEL KANT / BANALITY vs. RADICAL EVIL: THE POLITICAL RESPONSIBILTY OF ARTISTS IN THE FACE OF EPISODES OF GENOCIDE, presented in conjunction with the panel discussion: Taking Sides, The Role of the Artist in Conflict Situations organized and moderated by Conor McGrady at the 95th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York, NY

2004 THE SPECTACLE OF THE FASCIST BODYAND ITS PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD: LENI RIEFENSTAHL AND VANESSA BEECROFT, presented at the 3rd Biennial Image and Imagery Conference on Literature and the Arts, (Beauty and the Abject), Brock University, Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada

2002 QUANTUM MECHANICS, DURATION AND BECOMING: THE IDEAS OF LOUIS de BROGLIE, HENRI BERGSON AND GILLES DELEUZE, presented at the 2nd Biennial Image and Imagery Conference on Literature and the Arts, (Frames, Borders, Limits), Brock University, Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada

2000 FRANKENSTEIN AND THE KANTIAN SUBLIME, on the image of ice in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, presented at the 1st Biennial Image and Imagery Conference on Literature and the Arts (The Sublime), Brock University, Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada

1996 DATAVEILLANCE, PANOPTIC SUPERNETWORKS AND THE HYPER-REAL: A DIGITAL DYSTOPIA, on the computer’s potential for serving totalitarian agendas in the Digital Age. Presented in conjunction with the panel discussion: Technocratic / Techno-Critique, organized and moderated by Kathleen Campbell at the National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Los Angeles, CA

Public Lectures, Media Interviews and Panel Discussions:

2012 Lecture on The Death Of Photography, Science and Art Cabaret #8, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on H.P.Lovecraft’s Cosmic Aesthetic, Science and Art Cabaret #6,  Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2011 Lecture on Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein as the Ur science fiction novel for the Science & Art Cabaret #4 entitled Science Fiction / Science Fact, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2010 Lecture on Aesthetics in Science, Physics and Art Summer Institute, this is an annual “physics & art camp” program for gifted high school students, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on Vision Machines, The Invisible World Of Science In Art, Science & Art Cabaret No. 2, Other participants: David Gutierrez (on theremin), Will Kinney (astrophysicist), Doreen Wackeroth (particle physicist), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2009 Lecture on Wunderkammern, Department of Art Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT.

Lecture on Beats, Science & Art Cabaret, Other participants: Ulrich Baur (physicist), Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz (biologist), Will Kinney (astrophysicist), The Vores (unplugged), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on Aesthetics in Science, Physics and Art Summer Institute, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Wunderkammern, Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

2008 Lecture on the art performance Monsters of Nature and Design II, Phi Beta Kappa Western New York Association, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on Aesthetics in Science, Physics and Art Summer Institute, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on Photography and truth in conjunction with the public forum: Ways of Knowing, An Interdisciplinary Exploration of ‘Truth,’ The Institute at the Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, NY

Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Phenomena(l), Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2007 Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Vegetable Rites; Birds Of The Moon, Stewart Hall Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lecture on Aesthetics in Science, Physics and Art Summer Institute, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Lecture on the work included in the exhibition Phenomena(l), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Lecture on professional practices: Digital Documentation, The New York Academy of Figurative Art, New York, NY

2006 Lecture on the work included in the exhibitions Let the Work Begin: Theatrum Chemicum and Pluto’s Cave, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

Lecture on Aesthetics in Science, Physics and Art Summer Institute, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Pluto’s Cave, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2005 Lecture and open dialogue as part of a panel discussion about the Pluto’s Cave exhibition, sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute. Other panelists: Ulrich Baur (physicist), Robert Hirsch (artist), Reinhard Reitzenstein (artist), Doreen Wackeroth (physicist) and Krzysztof Ziarek (critic). Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY

NORIVISION, October 21 broadcast / interview with Nori Jung on Time Warner Public Access New York City Cable Channel 34 & webcast @ www.mnn.org

2004 Lecture on Art and Difficulty, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

Lecture on The Theme of Ice and the Kantian Sublime in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

2003 Lecture on The Fascist Body Ideal; The Performance Art of Vanessa Beecroft, Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and NAZI Nudist (F.K.K.) Cults, The New York Academy of Figurative Art, New York, NY

2002 Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Let the Work Begin, Theatrum Chemicum, University at Buffalo

2000 Lecture on the work included in the exhibitions Leviathan and Shower Bath of the Patriarchs, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH

1997 Panel moderator Art At The End Of The Century Dialogue II, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Lecture on Science as Spectacle, School of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH

1995 Lecture on The Work of Christopher Stuart Nickard, (the photographic art of my brother who died of AIDS in 1994). in conjunction with the exhibition Winter in Eden, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY