Recent Events

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International Symposium on Electronic Arts Conference, Dortmund, Germany, August 2010

Event: ISEA Panel on New Media and Cultural Policy, Organised by Virtueel Platform (Public Sector Institute for e-Culture) Netherlands

• Paper: 'Four Schisms in New Media Policy'
• Chair: Cathy Brickwood
• Other Panel Members: Prof Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam); Prof Sally Jane Norman (University of Sussex); Alec Tarkowski (Creative Commons, Poland)

EU Forum on Creative and Cultural Industries, Barcelona, March 2010

Event: European Union Conference. Conference Strand: Copyright in the Light of New Technological and Market Challenges

• Panel Presentation and Interview
• Chair: Prof Francious Benhamou (Economics, University of Paris)
• Co-Panelists: Georgi Stoimenov (Independent Broadcasting Regulatory Authority, Bulgaria); Franscisco Cabrera (European Audiovisual Observatory); Magdalena Vinent (President, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations)

Transmediale 13, Berlin, February 2010

Event: Digital Media Festival & Conference. Strand: The Price and Value of Cultural Work

• Presentation Overview: 'Value, Cultural Value and Free Culture'
• Chair of Panel
• Panelists: Baruch Gottlieb, Kate Rich, I-We Lei, Dmytri Kleiner

Jan Van Eyke Academy Symposium, Maastricht, December 2009

Event: Invited Speaker to symposium Cultural Practices Outrun Legal Language

• Paper: 'Cultural Influences on the Economic Theory of Copyright, and Political Influences on the Free Culture Critique of Copyright'

Good Business is the Best Art, Tate Modern, October 2009

Event: Invited speaker to public conference Good Business is the Best Art

• Paper: 'Alchemy in the Measurement of the Creative and Cultural Industries'
• Co-Panelists: Marek Claassens (Director Artfacts), Iain Robertson (Sotheby's), Gavin Turk (artist), Catherine Wood (curator)

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, ISHTIP, University of Bocconi, Milan, June 2009

Event: Inaugural Annual ISHTIP Workshop: The Construction of Immateriality: Practices of Appropriation and the Genealogy of Intellectual Property

• Paper: 'The Immaterial Image: Creative, Legal and Economic Theory 1475-1607'

Creative Cities Symposium, Radiokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria, April 2009

Event: Invited speaker to Creative Industries Conference

• Public interview with conference chair Armin Medosch

Judgement: Taste, Fashion and Criticism in Contemporary Art, University of Southampton, January, 2009

Event: Keynote to conference on Judgement, organised by the John Hansard Gallery

• Keynote Paper: 'Judgement in Culture and Economics: Some Problems for Arts Council England'

Lofoton International Art Festival, Lofoton, Norway, June 2008

Event: Public Lectures for Biennale Workshop

• Lecture I: 'Cultural Practice in the Era of Knowledge Economics'
• Lecture II: 'Knowledge, Space and Practice'

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, London, February 2008

Event: Inaugural QMIPRI Conference: Intellectual Property Strategies; Use, Innovation, Access

• Paper: 'Access to Culture/Access to Consumers: the ISP Agenda'
• Link: Inaugural QMIPRI Conference 2008 Booklet (PDF download)

Martin Chautari/LASANAA, Alternative Centre for Art, Kathmandu, Nepal, January, 2008

Event: LASANAA Public Lecture

• Joint Lecture with Rikke Luther: 'Land, Ownership and Art Practice'
• Link: Additional Discussions (Martin Chautari's website)

International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden (IASPIS) Stockholm, November 2007

Event: Who Makes and Owns Your Work: Exploring the Economy of Sharing and the Commodification of Community

• Keynote Lecture for Public Consultations on the Future of Copyright – Lecture Title: 'Who Wants You To Worry About Copyright and Why?'
• Three Public Interviews (Rasmus Fleischer, Pirate Bay [bit torrent server]; Prof Marianne Levin, [School of Law, Stockholm University]; Mats Lindberg, Director BUS the Swedish collecting society for images)
• Roundtable Chair: Marianne Levin, Mats Lindberg, Rasmus Fleischer
• Links: Tomas Nygren's Blog, Event 17 Nov 2007 Video

Kingston University, Oxo Tower, London, October, 2007

Event: The Culture Industries: The Arts and the Corporate Agenda

• Presentation: 'Creative Industries: Definitional and Conceptual Problems'
• Panel Member: with Dr Andy Pratt (LSE) and Dave Beech (Chelsea School of Art). Chaired by Prof David Cottington (Creative Industries, Kingston University)
• Link:

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, October, 2007

Event: Herchel Smith Seminar "The Artist Re-Branded" - The Resale Royalty Right and the Development of the Artist as Brand

• Presentation: 'The Artist Was Always a Brand'
• Panel Member: with Dr Charles Lewis and Prof Celia Lury. Chair Prof Jo Gibson
• Link: Queen Mary Events Archive

Courtauld Institute, London, October 2007

Event: Symposium Between Culture & Capital: Art, Institutions and Corporate Patronage.

• Paper: 'The Future of Cultural Public Goods in the Market Society'
• Panel Chair: Dr Alexander Alberro (University of Florida), Sue Daniels (Arts and Business), Dr Mark Rectanus (Iowa State University)
• Link: Between Culture and Capital Programme (PDF Download from Courtauld website)

Birkbeck, University of London, September 2007

Event: Critical Legal Studies Conference

• Paper: 'Here There Be Dragons: Beyond the Copyright Enclosure'
• Link: Birkbeck School of Law Past Conferences

The Serpentine Gallery, London, May 2007

Event: Local Operations – Public discussions curated by Public Works. Event 1 – 'Open Market – Cultural Production vs Commodities vs Informal Trade'

• Presentation: 'Knowledge & Commodities: Mistaking the Author/Reader relation for the Producer/Consumer Relation'
• Panel Discussion: with Prof Mike Hitchcock (Director, Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, LMU); Adam Sutherland (Director, Grizedale Arts); Wapke Feenstra (artist). Chaired by Kathrin Böhm
• Link: Serpentine Gallery: Local Operations

University of Central England, Birmingham, May, 2007

Event: Support Structures 6. Lectures curated by Gavin Wade & Celine Condorelli

• Paper: 'Support for Culture'
• Panel Discussion: with Prof Mark Cousins (Architectural Association)
• Link: Support Structure

Congress of International Institute of Curators (IKT), Kunstmuseum, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, April 2007

Event Theme: Curatorial Practice and its Legal Implications

• Principle speaker: 'Curating and Law: Copyright and Competition Law'
• Seminar leader
• Panel member: with Marysia Lewandowska (artist), Annette Schindler (artist/curator), Yvonne Volkart (curator). Chaired by Chus Martinez
• Link: IKT Newsletter (PDF Download)

The South London Gallery, London, April 2007

Event: 'Between' curated by Organisation & Imagination.

• Chair: For group discussion on 'Cultural Value'
• Link:

Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen Feb 2007

Event: To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest (event for an exhibition of Nicoline van Harskamp)

• Presentation: 'Conspicuous Creativity: Non-Property, Expression and Social Recognition in Christiania'
• Panel Member: with Prof Eric Clark (University of Lund), Lise Autogena (University of Newcastle), Ditlev Nissen (Christiania Research in Residence - CRIR) and Emmerik Warburg (CRIR Organiser)
• Link: Kunsthallen Nikolaj

With de With Centre of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Feb 2007

Event: Rotterdam Dialogues: The Periphery Complex

• Presentation: 'Cultural Funding and the Market Society'
• Panel Member: with Prof Hans Abbing, Maria Lind, Dr Suhail Malik and Charles Esche. Chaired by Dr Olaf Velthius
• Links: e-flux, Deutscher Pavillon

Institute of Contemporary Art, London Jan 2007

Event: Should Art be Democratic?

• Presentation: 'Should Policy be Democratic? Economic Rationality and Cultural Policy'
• Panel Member: with Prof John Carey, Mark Titchner, Tino Sehgal and Carey Young. Chaired by Dave Beech
• Links: ICA: Should Art be Democratic?, Axisweb

Public Programmes, Tate Modern, London 2006

Event: Creative Chain Reactions. Art, Advertising, Reference and Homage

• Chair for a debate on appropriation aesthetics in art and advertising with Anson Harris (Meme London) and Dr Joan Gibbons (Director, Contemporary Curatorial Practice, Birmingham City University)
• Link: Tate Modern: Creative Chain Reactions

Public Works, London 2006

Event: Friday Session on Christiania

• Presentation ongoing research project undertaken as part of the Christiania Researcher in Residence Programme
• Link:

CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival 2006

Event: To Copy or Not to Copy

• Presentation and Panel Discussion
• Link: CPH:DOX

Tate Modern/AHRC New Directions in Copyright Network 2006

Event: The Future of Regulation of Creativity Roundtables

• Organiser and Co-Leader of three roundtable debates on the regulation of creative practice in a post-copyright or copyright-plus environment, sponsored by AHRC New Directions in Copyright Network and Public Programmes Department, Tate Modern
• Link:

World Intellectual Property Organisation/CARICOM, Guyana, 2006

Event: Meeting of Experts on the Creative Industries and Intellectual Property

• Paper entitled 'Learning from Mapping Exercises: The Experience of the UK'
• Link: CARICOM

Selected Events Prior to January 2006

The following events had/have some relation to the issues tackled in Art, Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy, but were conducted prior to becoming a Associate Research Fellow of the School of Law at Birkbeck.

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University of Southampton, John Hansard Gallery 2005

Event: 'Re-inventing the University'

• Panel Presentation and debate with Prof Herman Rapaport, Dr Leslie Carr & Saul Albert
• Links: The Guardian Comment, Lecturelist

Paul Cooper Gallery, New York, 2005

Event: 'Consideration', a solo exhibition by Carey Young

• Artist's legal adviser with Robert Lands (Finers Stephens Innocent)
• Link: Carey Young

Christiania Research Group/Urbanites Group, Christiania, Copenhagen 2005

Event: 'Towards Normalisation'

• Presentation and Joint Chair with Prof Neil Smith (Columbia University) of one day workshop
• Link: CRIR Research

Association of Art Historians, Birkbeck, 2003

Event: Annual Conference

• Paper entitled 'The Art of Photography: The Extension of Copyright to Photographic Images and the Reinscription of Aesthetic Production'
• Link: Association of Art Historians

Association of Art Historians, Liverpool, 2002

Event: Annual Conference

• Paper entitled 'Collecting, Image-Making and Foreign Policy in the Age of Eco-Colonialism' (Paper accepted but withdrawn)
• Link:

Association of Art Historians, Oxford Brookes, 2001

Event: Annual Conference

• Paper entitled 'The Law of Appropriation: Critiquing the Privilege of the Critical'
• Link: Association of Art Historians

TorkRadio, Web Broadcast, 1998

Event: Early web broadcast curated by Zbigniew Jaroc and Chris Dorely-Brown

• Chair: A very ineffective chair for a very tired bunch of artists about the issue of digital copyright and culture conducted recorded at about 36 hours into a 72 hour web broadcast
• Link: Tork Radio