PUBLICATIONS
THE USES OF ART - DISPERSED HOLDINGS (2022) BOOK: Sal Randolph. Chapter: “A Letter from Randall”
DEFIANTLY OPTIMISTIC: TURNING UP IN A WORLD ON FIRE - FLATLAND (2022) BOOK: Jen Delos Reyes. Chapter: “Be Here Now: The Conference That Never Was and Maybe Couldn’t Have Been”
READING ROOM - DISPERSED HOLDINGS (2020) BOOK: Sal Randolph and David Richardson, eds. Chapter: “Reading as an Experiment in Democracy”
THE COMPOUND YELLOW MANUAL OF PROMPTS, PROVOCATIONS, PERMISSIONS, & PARAMETERS FOR EVERYDAY PRACTICES (2020) BOOK: Jorge Lucero and Laura Shaeffer, eds. Chapter: “Diagrams for Social Practice”
WE WILL THINK THIS THROUGH TOGETHER - OE IN PRINT (2018) BOOK: Collection of interviews with Edgar Arceneaux, Paul Ramirez, Jonas, Shannon Jackson, and Claire Doherty
SAY IT WHILE YOU STILL MEAN IT: CONVERSATIONS ON ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE - OE IN PRINT (2017) BOOK: Collection of interviews. Wrote the introduction for Stephen Wright. Also participated in the conversations with Nato Thompson and Stephen Wright
PUBLIC SERVANTS: ART AND THE CRISIS OF THE COMMON GOOD - MIT PRESS (2016) BOOK: Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson and Dominic Willsdon, eds. Comment included in piece by Deborah Fisher
I'M GOING TO LIVE THE LIFE I SING ABOUT IN MY SONG: HOW ARTISTS MAKE AND LIVE LIVES OF MEANING - OE IN PRINT (2016) BOOK: Wrote the Afterword with Jen Delos Reyes.
THE QUESTIONS WE ASK TOGETHER - OE IN PRINT (2015) BOOK: Gemma-Rose Turnbull, ed. Chapter: "Do you need to distinguish art from life?"
DILETTANTE: VOLUME ONE - NEW HARMONY - (2013) JOURNAL: "TRANSCRIPT: July 24, 2012." Conversation with Matthew Joynt.
COMPOSITE ISSUE 1: TOURISM - (2010) JOURNAL: "Excerpts from Philip Hayson presents: Pamela Frasier: a project by Martha Paxton." With Pamela Fraser
THE VISUAL MISCELLANEUM: A COLORFUL GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S MOST CONSEQUENTIAL TRIVIA - HARPER COLLINS (2009) BOOK: David McCandless. Chapter: "X is the new black."
REVELRY AND RISK, APPROACHES TO SOCIAL PRACTICE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT - (2007) EXHIBITION CATALOG: Inaugural publication of the California College of the Arts Social Practice Program. Ted Purves and Sara Thatcher eds. Chapter: "Gambling in Reno, Some Notes on a Social Practices Field Trip"
THE SAN FRANCISCO WORLD’S FAIR OF 2007 - (2007) EXHIBITION CATALOG: Will Bradley and Kate Fowle, eds. Chapter: “Work in Progress: Four Readings.” With Nancy Zastudil (as Studiolo54)
ONLINE
RE-INTRODUCING WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE RANDALL SZOTT - BAD AT SPORTS (2022)
WHY ARTISTS MAKE GOOD CIVIC LEADERS - ARTPLACE AMERICA BLOG (2019) With April Greene
6 KINDS OF PUBLIC - DILETTANTE ARMY (2019)
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR DEMOCRACY - JEFFERSON CENTER BLOG (2018)
OE TEN YEAR REFLECTION: RANDALL SZOTT - OPEN ENGAGEMENT (2018)
THE CONVERSATION THAT HAS YET TO BE NAMED: PARENTING, EDUCATION, ART? - TEMPORARY ART REVIEW (2016) With Meredith Warner
THAT: A CONVERSATION ON ART THAT ISN'T ART (BUT MAYBE REALLY IS) AND ON NON-ART THAT IS ART (BUT MAYBE SHOULDN'T BE) WHAT THE HELL DOES IT MEAN TO CONSIDER SOMETHING *AS* ART VS. AS *ART*? AND SHOULD ANYONE EVEN CARE? - TEMPORARY ART REVIEW (2016) With Shannon Stratton
BE HERE NOW: THE CONFERENCE THAT NEVER WAS AND MAYBE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN - TEMPORARY ART REVIEW (2016) With Jen Delos Reyes
SOCIAL PRACTICE: WHAT'S AT STAKE? - TEMPORARY ART REVIEW (2016) With Sal Randolph
AS ARTISTS PROFESSIONALIZE, WHAT’S LOST — AND WHAT’S GAINED? - TEMPORARY ART REVIEW (2015)
DRAFT OF A MANIFESTO WRITTEN IN DEFENSE OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT DID NOT ASK FOR MY DEFENSE, USING WORDS THEY WOULD NOT USE AND ENGAGING PEOPLE THEY IGNORE - OPEN (2010) Lisa Radon, ed.
MORE TAILGATING, LESS CURATING - OFF-TOPIC, BAD AT SPORTS (2010)
ART LEISURE INSTEAD OF ART WORK: A CONVERSATION WITH RANDALL SZOTT - IN THE CONVERSATION (2008) With Sal Randolph.
WE CAN WORK IT OUT - 127 PRINCE (2010)
...IS THE NEW... - STATIC ISSUE 3: CHOICE AND SUFFERING (2006)
WHAT IS NEOGEOGRAPHY ANYWAY? - PLATIAL NEWS AND NEOGEOGRAPHY (2006)
...IS THE NEW... - THE DIAGRAM 6.3 (2006)
AUDIO
EPISODE 650 ALLISON AGSTEN AND THE MAIN MUSEUM - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE: 648 SHEEHY, CADIEUX, AND MATTESON - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE 639: ART AND ECOLOGY - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE 635: MEL CHIN - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE 632: CHLOË BASS - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE 630: LUCY LIPPARD - BAD AT SPORTS (2018)
EPISODE 615: W.I.T.C.H. - BAD AT SPORTS (2017)
EPISODE 614: DONNA NEUWIRTH AND SU LEGATT - BAD AT SPORTS (2017)
EPISODE 609: PUBLIC MATTERS - BAD AT SPORTS (2017)
EPISODE 607: MICHELLE ILLUMINATO, BRETT HUNTER, AND CAROL PADBERG - BAD AT SPORTS (2017)
EPISODE 387: PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS - BAD AT SPORTS (2013)
EPISODE 379: STEPHEN WRIGHT - BAD AT SPORTS (2012)
EPISODE 378: SAL RANDOLPH - BAD AT SPORTS (2012)
EPISODE 376: SHANNON JACKSON - BAD AT SPORTS (2012)
EPISODE 254: JEN DELOS REYES AND HARRELL FLETCHER - BAD AT SPORTS (2010)
EPISODE 253: NILS NORMAN - BAD AT SPORTS (2010)
EPISODE 250: NATO THOMPSON - BAD AT SPORTS (2010)
EPISODE 249: TED PURVES - BAD AT SPORTS (2010)
EPISODE 195: INCUBATE - BAD AT SPORTS (2009)
EPISODE 147: PAMELA FRASER AND RANDALL SZOTT - BAD AT SPORTS (2008)
SPEAKING ENGAGeMENTS+Residencies
VISITING SPEAKER - SOCIAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP (2019) Course taught by Susanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts
VISITING SPEAKER - GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MEDIA CULTURE - RADICAL MOVEMENTS (2019) Course Taught by Lane Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
FOUR PUBLICS: LEARNING IN SOCIALLY-ENGAGED, PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY AND CIVIC ART - (2018) Invited participant for an Accelerator Workshop by the Harvard Graduate School of Education at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Harvard University
VISITING SPEAKER - COMMUNITY PRACTICE STUDIO 1+2 (2018) Course taught by Susanne Cockrell, California College of the Arts
VISITING SPEAKER - DIMENSIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY (2018) Course taught by Linda Treash, Community College of Vermont
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE: SPACE, PLACE, AND THE HUMANITIES - (2017) Selected participant for a three week institute hosted by Northeastern University
“RADICAL AESTHETICS OF MULTISPECIES WORLDING, ECO-ART, AND SOLIDARITY IN A MORE-THAN-HUMAN CAPITALOCENE” - EMPYRE MAILING LIST(2017) Thread co-leader with Valentine Cadieux, Lissette T. Olivares, and Antonio Roman-Alcala
SOIL PRACTICE + SOCIAL PRACTICE- HUMAN SERVICES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE (2017) With Carol Padberg, Central Connecticut State University
VISITING CRITIC - COMPOUND YELLOW (2017) Roundtable discussion leader for [ESCAPE]. Oak Park, IL
“CIVIC ARTISANSHIP”- NEW ENGLAND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY (2017) Panel co-chair with Rebecca Uchill, Harvard University
LIVE THE LIFE BOOK LAUNCH - GALLERY 400 (2016) With Jen Delos Reyes, University of Illinois-Chicago
RESEARCH, METHODS, DESIGN - ARRAYLIST (2016) Invited online thread co-leader with Brendan Albano, Bonnie Fortune, Maria Gaspar, Katie Hargrave, Brad Tober, Jeff Thompson, Adam Trowbridge, Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Meredith Warner, and Jessica Parris Westbrook
“CRITIQUING CRITICALITY” - COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (2013) Panel co-chair with Pamela Fraser, New York, NY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER - SUMMER FORUM FOR INQUIRY + EXCHANGE (2012) New Harmony, IN
UTOPIA + ESCAPE - CS13 (2011) Roundtable, with Shannon Stratton, Nancy Zastudil and Duncan MacKenzie for the exhibition Utopia, OH: A Love Letter, Cincinnati, OH
VISITING CRITIC - SPECIAL TOPICS: COLLECTING AS CREATIVE PRACTICE (2010) Course taught by Marc Fischer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
“GOING ROGUE: SLUMMING IN PORTLAND” - OPEN ENGAGEMENT (2010) Discussion with Ted Purves, Portland, OR
POTLUCK CHAT (VIA SKYPE) - BASEKAMP (2009) Featured guest.
VISITING CRITIC - TOPICS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS (2009) Course taught by J. Hill, The University of Houston
VISITING CRITIC - WHY MAKE ART NOW? (2009) Course taught by Shannon Stratton, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“DOING IT TOGETHER: ARTIST-RUN SUPPORT NETWORKS” - NEXT ART FAIR TALK SHOP (2009) Panel discussion with InCUBATE, Tracy Candido, and Robin Hewlett, Chicago, IL
“LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE: HOW TO SUCCEED IN ART WITHOUT REALLY TRYING” - CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (2009) In conversation with Ted Purves, San Francisco, CA
VISITING CRITIC - CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (2007) Studio visits, field trip, and talk for Social Practices Program, San Francisco, CA
“SPECULATIVE CARTOGRAPHY AND THE PRAXIS OF MYSPACE” - DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURE COLLOQUIUM (2007) Presentation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
CURATORIAL+ ORGANIZED EVENTS
BIRDING WALK (IN HONOR OF TED PURVES) - OPEN ENGAGEMENT CONFERENCE (2018) Organized event, New York, NY
THE PATTERN THAT CONNECTS: GREGORY BATESON, SYSTEMS THINKING, DESIGN, AND AESTHETICS - BASECAMP (2016) Organized an online symposium using the basecamp platform.
SUNDAY SOUP - (2016) With Adam Blue, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
EXHIBITION AND EVENT SERIES - HE SAID SHE SAID (2011 - 2008)
Series curated with Pamela Fraser, Oak Park, IL
she said: Sheila Pepe: Common Sense: Chicago, April 9, 2011
she said: Kevin Everson: The World According to KJE, November 17, 2010
she said: 350.org Global Work Party/ Silkscreen Party, October 10, 2010
he said: Katie Hargrave: Transmissions to Change the Way We Think About Us, April 17, 2010
she said: Nina Bovasso: Kijkshop, March 13, 2010
she said: Nikhil Chopra, February 7, 2010
she said: Bob Linder, January 16, 2010
she said: Carroll Dunham, October 13, 2009
he said: Leif Hedendal, September 19, 2009
she said: Guy Richards Smit, May 10, 2009
she said: Michael Stickrod, March 13, 2009
he said: The Leisure Bowl, February 21, 2009
he said: Bill Keaggy, November 17- December 5, 2008
she said: Meg Cranston, October 29, 2008
he said: Robert Gardner, July 20, 2008
she said: Cheryl Donegan, May 17-June 7, 2008
she said: Tamara Zahaykevich, April 19- May 10, 2008
he said: Jessica Hagy, March 14, 200
PUBLIC CULTURE LECTURE/EVENT SERIES - THREEWALLS (2010 - 2011) Co-organized with InCUBATE, Chicago, IL
“The Interview Show” with Mark Bazer
“The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things” with Erika Nelson
“Chicago Pedway Tour” with Hui-min Tsen
"How to Do Things with Words" with Chad Elias
“Critical Tourism” with Ryan Griffis
“The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century United States” with Angela Ray
TRIVIA NIGHT - AUTZEN GALLERY (2010) With InCUBATE, Portland, OR
ARTISTS RUN CHICAGO - HYDE PARK ART CENTER (2009) With Pamela Fraser, organized by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn, Chicago, IL
ARTISTS RUN CHICAGO AFTER PARTY - HE SAID SHE SAID (2009) With Pamela Fraser.
IN SEARCH OF THE MUNDANE - THREEWALLS (2009) With InCUBATE, Chicago, IL
“New Knowledge” Team Trivia Night with host Jon Brumit
“Maxwell Street Market tour” with Robert Gardner
“Storytelling as an Everyday Art” with Megan Stielstra
“Doing Cooking,” Boozy Brunch and Trekkies
“Envisioning One’s Living Conditions,” Tour of Anthony Elm’s collections “Optimism and Everyday Life” with Claire Pentecost
“Wine and Time” lecture and tasting with David Tamarkin
CUTTING SLACK: PARADOXES OF SLACKERDOM - N.E.W.S (2009) Online symposium organized with Stephen Wright.
COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES AS CREATIVE PRACTICE - MESS HALL (2008) Exhibition organized with Marc Fischer.
GAMBLING IN RENO, A SOCIAL PRACTICES “FIELD TRIP” - CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (2007) Field trip, road trip, factory tours, various locations Oakland, CA to Reno, NV
AMBIENT READING SPECTACULAR - (2016) dispersed holdings, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
COLLECTING NOTHING ON EBAY - (2016) NO SHOW MUSEUM, http://www.noshowmuseum.com
THE DINNER PARTY - (2016) With Lexa Walsh, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
FOOD LAB - SUMMER SCHOOL - (2016) With Lexa Walsh, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
WHITE, CURATED BY LISA RADON - (2012) facebook/Portland, OR
FUTURE SHOCK, CURATED BY ABIGAIL SATINSKY - (2010) Green Lantern Projects, Chicago, IL (catalog).
MAIL NOTHING TO DAVID HORVITZ - (2010) No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, UK
DON'T PISS ON ME AND TELL ME IT'S RAINING, CURATED BY BAD AT SPORTS - (2010) Apex Art, New York, NY
THE BLACK MARKET TYPE & PRINT SHOP, CURATED BY JOSEPH DEL PESCO - (2009) PNCA Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
NADA: ZIP, ZILCH, NOTHING, CURATED BY JOHN SPARGANA - (2009) Visual Arts Gallery - Rice Media Center, Houston, TX
TEACHING
INSTRUCTOR - GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE (2017+2019) RSC 6000: Community Arts, Recreation, and Public Spaces
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO (2008) AD 502 Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Theory
VISITING LECTURER– THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (2001-2002) Art 162: Issues and Ideas in Contemporary Art, Art 260: Art Special Projects, Art 370: Intermediate Drawing
GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR – THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1999-2000) Art 260: Art Special Projects
TEACHING ASSISTANT – THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1998) Art 162: Issues and Ideas in Contemporary Art
TEACHING ASSISTANT – SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY (1997) IAC 426: Thought and Image II
EDUCATION
MASTER OF FINE ARTS - ART CRITICAL PRACTICES Ohio State University
MASTER OF ARTS - CREATIVITY AND ARTS EDUCATION San Francisco State University
BACHELOR OF ARTS - LIBERAL ARTS - PHILOSOPHY MINOR University of Central Florida