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2011 @ Essay: 'Now you see it, now you don't: the history and conservation of The Keith Haring Mural, Johnston Street, Collingwood, Melbourne,'
Opening speech: ‘Movement and Emotion’ and ‘Jodie Noble Solo’ exhibitions at Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Essay/Review: 'Un/aware and in re/pose: the self, the subject and the city': essay about surveillance, the gaze, the camera, the self, the subject and the city.
Review: 'Scott's Last Expedition' at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Text: The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) Hobart
Opening speech: 'John Bodin: Rite of Passage' at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond
Review: ‘American Dreams: 20th century photography from George Eastman House’ at Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Review: 'Time Machine: Sue Ford' at Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria
Review: Bill Henson at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Text/Review: 'In Spates' by Sam Shmith at Arc One Gallery, Melbourne: examines 'The Digital Punctum'
Review: 'NETWORKS (cells & silos)' at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield
Review: 'Sidney Nolan: Drought Photographs' at Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Review: 'Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography' at NGV Australia, Melbourne: investigates contemporary Australian landscape photography
Review: 'Luminous Cities: Photographs of the Built Environment' at NGV International, Melbourne: examines early collecting policies of vintage prints by international photographers at the NGV

2010 @ Review: 'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' by Taryn Simon at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
Review: 'Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang' at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Review: 'Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur' at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne

2009 @ Review: 'Unforced Intimacies' by Patricia Piccinini at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Review: 'Long Distance Vision: Three Australian Photographers' at The Ian Potter Centre NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne
Review: 'presentation/representation: photography from Germany' at the Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne
Review: 'Jonh Brack' retrospective at The National Gallery of Victoria, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne
Review: 'Tacita Dean' at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
Review: 'My Jesus Lets Me Rub His Belly' exhibition by Martin Smith at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne
Review: 'Mark Strizic: Melbourne - A City in Transition (Rare Silver Gelatin Photographs)' at Gallery 101, Melbourne
Review: 'Order and disorder: archives and photography' at the National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne

2008 @
Launch of Art Blart art and writing blog at artblart.wordpress.com

2006 @
'Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male': website adaptation of PhD research undertaken at RMIT University, featuring research on the photographic collections at The Kinsey Institute and The Minor White Archive.
'Mis en Scene: Vision and the Digital Paradigm': paper presented at 'Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2006 Annual Conference 'Reinventing the Medium', Monash University.

2005 @
'SynchroMate: A Phatic Technology for Mediating Intimacy': paper presented at 'DUX 2005', San Francisco, Nov 3-5th 2005.

2004 @
'Research Through Practice: Interdisciplinary Research and Artistic Production': paper presented at COFA seminar 'Research Through Practice : Beyond Research Equivalence in Art and Design', Sydney, NSW, 2004.
'Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy': paper published in 'Proceedings of OzCHI 2004: Supporting Community Interaction: Possibilities and Challenges', University of Wollongong, 22-24 November, 2004.
'The Delicious Fields: Exploring Man Ray's 'Rayographs' in a Digital Future': paper published in The University of Queensland Vanguard magazine 'Man Ray : Life, Work & Themes', 2004.
'Mediating Intimacy: Digital Kisses and Cut and Paste Hugs': paper presented at 'BCSHCI' conference, England, 2004.


2002 @
'Spaces That Matter: Awareness and Entropia and the Imaging of Place': paper presented at The 'Mediated Spaces' Symposium, The University of Melbourne, October 2002.
'Memory From Memory': catalogue essay for an exhibition by John Billan and Jennifer Sochackyj at West Space Gallery, Melbourne.
'... And His Forms Were Without Number': catalogue essay on the photographic work of Dr. John Cato 1971 - 1991.

2001 @
'Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male': PhD research dissemination comprising a CD ROM and thesis available through RMIT University Library, Melbourne.

1999 @
'Sex and Sensibility: Gay Eth(n)ics into the New Millennium': paper presented at 'HID3, Proceedings of the 3rd National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference', Adelaide, South Australia, 1999.

1998 @
'Darkness/Colour': catalogue essay for the exhibition of the same name at The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne.
'Trans(a)gressions and the Body-Image': paper presented at 'HID2, Proceedings of the 2nd National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference', Melbourne, Victoria, 22-24 January 1998.


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