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TEACHING AND LECTURING

Teaching

1996
(Feb) Invited tutor, Rome Field Trip, Foundation Unit, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.

1998
(Feb, Mar) Invited tutor, Rome Field Trip, Intermediate Unit, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.

2001
(Mar) Guest critic, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Rome.

2002
(Nov-Dec) Co-ordinator (with Francesco Garofalo, Andrew Zago) of 'Traforo Umberto I' workshop, international conference Architettura e arte oggi nel centro storico e nel paesaggio, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome.

2003
(May) Guest critic (BA, PhD), Painting Department, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Winchester.

2006
(Apr) Invited juror, BArch (3rd Year), School of Design, Iowa State University, Rome Program, Rome.
(May) Guest critic, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Rome.
(Dec) Guest critic, Cornell University, Rome.

2007
(May) Guest critic, Cornell University, Rome.
(May-Aug) Course Instructor, Photography Rome Portfolio (AS299), Summer I & Summer II, John Cabot University, Rome.

2008
(May-Aug) Course Instructor, Basic Photography (AS199), Summer I & Summer II, John Cabot University, Rome.

2011
(June) Two-day seminar on the work of Michelangelo Antonioni, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
(Oct) Guest lecturer (aspects of postwar Italian cinema), Italian Studies course, The Pantheon Institute, Rome.

2012
(Jan-May) Course Instructor, Photography (ARTS 187, 188, 387), Spring semester, University of New Mexico Rome Program, Rome.

 

Lectures

1995
(Jul) The sources of Marcel Duchamp’s work, International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio.

2000
(Mar) Responding to Rome. The work of recent artists at the British School at Rome, The British Academy, London.

2001
(Mar) Recent Italian video art, Temple University, Rome.
(Apr) Recent Italian video art, Cornell University, Rome.

2002
(May) "Fishtank" di Richard Billingham e la recente arte inglese, Contemporary Art History Course, 'La Sapienza' University, Rome.
(Sep) La lezione è: non si dipingono idee, non si dipinge un soggetto. Non ci sono che misteri. Non ci sono che domande, Contemporary Art History Course, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, University of Palermo.
(Dec) International conference Architettura e arte oggi nel centro storico e nel paesaggio, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome.

2003
(May) Michelangelo’s Rome (on Michelangelo Antonioni), Painting Department, Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).

2004
(Mar) Michelangelo’s Rome, MA Course, London Metropolitan University, London.
(Oct) L’uso del mezzo filmico nella video arte recente. Tre esempi: Mazière, Damen, Benci. Contemporary Art History Course, Corso di Progettazione Multimediale, Facoltà di Architettura ‘Valle Giulia’, ‘La Sapienza’ University, Roma.
(Nov) Michelangelo’s Rome, The British School at Rome.

2005
(Mar) Responding to Rome, pt. 2. The work of recent artists at the British School at Rome, 2000-2005, The British Academy, London.
(Sep) Michelangelo’s Rome. Towards an icolonogy of "L’Eclisse", paper presented at Cinematic Rome international conference, Institute for Research on Visual Culture (NIRVC), University of Nottingham (keynote speaker).

2006
(Mar) Responding to Rome: an impossible task?, Estorick Collection, London.
(Mar) Michelangelo’s Rome, School of Architecture, University of Brighton.
(May) Brave New World? British Art in the 1990s, Temple University, Rome.
(May) Brave New World? L’arte britannica degli anni Novanta, Contemporary Art History Course, Facoltà di Architettura ‘Valle Giulia’, ‘La Sapienza’ University, Rome.
(Aug) Antonioni’s metropolitan imagination, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (part of the events programme of the Blow Up exhibition).

2007
(May) Brave New World? L’arte britannica degli anni Novanta e Duemila, Contemporary Art History Course, Facoltà di Architettura ‘Valle Giulia’, ‘La Sapienza’ University, Rome.

2009
(Mar) Pasolini’s other Rome: The Ghetto, Monteverde Vecchio, EUR, University College, London.
(Nov) Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'eclisse", Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome.

2010
(Oct) "L'eclisse": Antonioni from E42 to EUR, Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome.

2011
(July) Towards an iconology of Luigi Ghirri, Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

2012
(Mar) Identification of a city: Michelangelo Antonioni and Rome, Central Saint Martin's / University of the Arts, London.