News:
Latest book: What Heaven Looks Like.
Next up: a massive textbook with Oxford Press, co-authored with Erna Fiorentini, called Visual Worlds. It should be out (after 7 years of work!) in 2020.
Also in 2020: my summary of the state of art writing around the world, called The Impending Single History of Art: North Atlantic Art History and its Alternatives. To be published by de Gruyter.
Passed the 300,000 word mark on my novel. Writing every day! It has illustrations; some are posted on Instagram.
Please use the contact form to schedule lectures, studio visits, or seminars. See Lectures page for my travel schedule.
Latest uploads:
The book Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?; the book How to Use Your Eyes; and an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. (There is also a website with reviews of contemporary piano music.)
Live Writing Projects:
I am experimenting with writing live on the internet. These texts update live, and you can contribute to them & be thanked when the book is published. (1) What is Interesting Writing in Art History?, (2) Writing with Images. Thanks everyone for contributing!
The interactive calendar at the right lists all public lectures and travels. If you click on the links you can get more information about venues and schedules of events.
If you’d like to invite me to lecture or for a reading, please check availability, and then send an email here.
Lecture topics are listed at the bottom of the page. Some have links to previews of the Keynote (PowerPoint) presentations.
Readings of fiction and experimental writing are done in the usual way, except that these texts contain images, which are shown as slides. I also do writing workshops on the subject of experimental writing in and around visuality.
The following topics are available. My current interests are toward the top of each column. Note the excerpts from the Keynote (PowerPoint) lectures are just meant as samples; they don’t contain the texts of the talks, and they aren't kept up to date. They're just meant to give an idea of what the talks include. These are available in HD (1920 x 1080), SXGA (1280 x 1024), and XGA (1024 x 768).