PhD 2000 Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dissertation: "Collectivities: Protest, Counter-Culture and Political Postmodernism in New York City Artists Organizations 1969-1984''

Master of Philosophy (en route), Spring 1998, Graduate Center, CUNY

M.A. thesis: "Holger Cahill's Inje-Inje: An American Primitivism''

B.A., 1974, University of California, Riverside

Teaching Experience:

Fall 2007 – Spring 2008 – Visiting Assistant Professor of contemporary art history and critical theory, University of South Florida, Tampa

Fall 2005 – Spring 2006 – Temporary Assistant Professor of art history at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia (modern & contemporary survey, theory and criticism; artworlds; Dada & Surrealism); Spring 2005, 8-week course Art Life at the new SPACE education initiative, New York City (http://new-space.mahost.org/)

Summer 2002-05 – Art history instructor, Pratt Institute Pre-College Program

Spring 2001-02, and Fall 2002 – Communications Consultant, Baruch College, City University of New York. Instructional technology support on 265-seat freshman course: trafficked digital imagery, prepared Powerpoints, maintained Blackboard website, arranged and led museum tours, prepared exams, graded and read assignments. I was one of two, with dual supervision by B.L. Schwartz Communications Institute, and Prof. Gail Levin, Fine and Performing Arts.

Fall 2000 – adjunct professor, City College of New York (modernist art); graduate teaching with technology fellow, Newman Library at Baruch College

Fall, 1997-Fall, 1998 - graduate teaching fellow, Bronx Community College, City University of New York (Western art survey)

Spring, 1996 - adjunct lecturer, College of Staten Island, CUNY (world art survey)

Spring and Fall, 1995 - adjunct lecturer, Ramapo State College, New Jersey (20th century survey)

Service

2005 – drafted art history major curriculum for faculty committee at Kennesaw State University, Georgia

2003-06 – member, board of directors, ABC No Rio cultural center

1998-2000 - Graduate Center CUNY Task Force on Instructional Technology

1997-2000 – co-editor (with John Angeline), co-founder (with Fernando Azevedo), of Part, CUNY Graduate Center student journal (first print issue 1993) web.gsuc.cuny.edu/dsc/p5cont.html

1995 - student representative to Art History program executive committee, GC-CUNY (elected)

1993 - Doctoral Student Council representative, GC-CUNY (elected)

Publications:

Historical Writing

Welcome to Our Resistance: The What and Why of the Tompkins Square Park Rebellion; introduction to Clayton Patterson, Joe Flood, Alan Moore, Howard Seligman, editors, Resistance: A Social and Political History of the Lower East Side (Seven Stories Press, NY, 2007)

Artists Collectives Mostly in New York, 19752000; chapter in Greg Sholette and Blake Stimson, editors, Collectivism After Modernism, pp. 193-222  (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

 Holger Cahill y el inje-inje. La historia del primitivismo modernista, in Historias (journal of Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City), no. 61, May-August 2005, pp. 85-112 (my masters thesis, translated by Antonio Saborit).

(pedagogical) Art Worlds of Atlanta website http://www.artworldsofatlanta.wikispaces.com; editing, some text, direction for two semester undergraduate class, 2005-06

 Being There: The Tribeca Neighborhood of Franklin Furnace (with Debra Wacks), The Drama Review journal of performance studies (special issue on Franklin Furnace), Spring 2005, vol. 49, no. 1.

 Buried in Plain Sight: Contemporary Responses to Writers and Writings of the East Village, in East Village USA (New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 2005)

Political Economy as Subject and Form in Contemporary Art, Review of Radical Political Economics (special issue on the political economy of art), Fall 2004, vol. 36, no. 4

 General Introduction to Collectivity in Modern Art, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, August 2003, www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org; Spanish translation for Segundo Simposio: Prcticas de Comunicacin Emergentes en la Cultura Digital, Crdoba, Argentina, August 2005

The Monday-Wednesday-Friday Video Club, Clayton Patterson, ed., Captured: A Film and Video History of the Lower East Side (Seven Stories Press, 2005; Federation of East Village Artists, NY, 2003); first version on Groups + Spaces website [defunct], 2003

"Local History: The Battle for Bohemia in the East Village (with James Cornwell), chapter for Julie Ault, ed., Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985 (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

"Problems with the Survey Are Problems in American Art,'' Part 4, Spring 1999, http://dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part4/moore.html

"Frank Overton Colbert: Native American Modernist,'' Journal of Chickasaw History (Oklahoma City), Vol. 3, No. 3, 1997

Catalogues:

A Drop in Consumption, for Shopdropping: New Case Studies (Collective Foundation, San Francisco), for exhibition at Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, 2007

Art Instrumentalized Must Be Utopian, for exhibition at Art in the Contested City conference, November 3, 2006, Pratt Institute; essay online at www.prattcollaboratives.org

Play Power, essay for Tawkin New York Walls exhibition catalogue (John Fekner, curator), Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, 2005; expanded version online at www.streetartmuseum.org

"Mitch Corber: Selected Works,'' gallery handout, Scott Pfaffman Gallery, 1998

Editor, introductory essay, other texts, Inside/Outside: The Artworld of the Squats (Solo Foundation, 1995)

Catalogue essay, "Paulette Nenner: A Memorial Exhibition,'' Brecht Forum, 1989

Editor, contributor, Berlin/New York exhibition catalogue (Storefront for Art and Architecture, 1986)

Co-editor, co-author essays, Moore and Marc Miller, ABC No Rio: Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery (Collaborative Projects, 1985) – introduction online at: www.abcnorio.org/about/history/abc_of_abc.html

Editor, essay, entries and interview (with Edit DeAk), Some Artists: For Example, Joseph Beuys (University of California, Riverside Art Gallery/Art-Rite, 1975); interview reprinted in Carin Kuoni, ed., Energy Plan for Western Man (1995)

Shirley Blum, ed., Cubist Circle, entries in exhibition catalogue (UCR Art Gallery, 1973)

Shirley Blum, ed., Artists and Lovers, entries in exhibition catalogue (UCR Art Gallery, 1972)

Reviews and Criticism:

Academic Entrepreneurialism: Eggheads Outside the Crate, for Part graduate student e-zine, City University of New York; and at Edu-Factory website http://www.edu-factory.org/

Posts to Thing.net collective blog – ongoing since June 22, 2006: e.g., re. Berlin trip; Visual Culture conference; Tropicalia exhibition; panel discussions on little art and architecture magazines; activist art panel, etc.

The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade (The Use-Value of Art), review of exhibition at Apexart, June 2004, bbs.thing.net (reviews)

Orbital View, review of Peter Fend and Sanford R. Gifford, Artnet, February 2004, www.artnet.com/magazine/

 Howl! Fest Success – Bohemian Death and Resurrection as Spectacle, Thing.net,  September, 2003

Groups Show: Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country at Apexart," Thing.net,  April, 2003

 Coming and Going: Anselm Kiefer and Thomas Hirschhorn, Thing.net, September 2002

War Art, on Staten Island war propaganda, Artnet, September 2002

 Fluxus Redux, on George Maciunas at Art In General, Artnet, November 2001

QuinQuag exhibit of Michael Smith & Joshua White at Christine Burgin Gallery, Artnet, December 2001

Wolfgang Staehle at Postmasters Gallery; Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema, Artnet, September 2001

Tiny Town, review of Charles Simonds and Nils Norman, Artnet, July 2001

review of Wolf Vostell at Janos Gat Gallery; and Plays the Thing Whitney Independent Study Program exhibition, Artnet, June 2001

"Avant-Garde Exposure (on Charlotte Moorman), Artnet, June 2000

`I Lost it at the Auction: Reporter Ditches Notebook and Grabs Paddle at Graffiti Debacle,'' Artnet, March 2000

"Pressing the Point: Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements,'' Part 5, Spring 2000

"Response to Gerardi,'' letter to the editor about a review of the Brooklyn Museum's "Sensation'' exhibition, Advocate, March 2000

exhibition review in Greater New York: New Art in New York Now (P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 2000; CD ROM insert)

"The Reanimators'' (review of Art & Language), Artnet, October 1999

"It Hurts: Review of Matthew Collings book,'' Artnet, April 1999

"Sunshine and Politics: Review of Deborah Johnson, William Sidney Mount,'' Artnet, March 1999

"Situation Critical: African American Writers on African-American Artists at the MoMA,'' Artnet, March 1999; reprinted International Review of African American Art, vol. 16, no. 1, 1999

"Pollock Symposium at MoMA,'' Artnet on-line magazine, February 1999

"Irresistible Outsiders,'' Artnet, January 1999

"Seth Tobocman at Exit Art,'' Artnet, December 1998

"Urban Encounters at the New Museum,'' Artnet, August 1998

"Alfredo Jaar's Rwanda Project,'' Artnet, May 1998

"The Image Business: Shop and Cigar Store Figures,'' Part 3, Spring 1998

"Sunshine and Shadow,'' book review, Psychiatric Services, March 1998, vol. 49, no. 3

"Radiant Baby Meet Ma and Pa: Keith Haring and Tom Otterness,'' Artnet, October 1997

"Back to School to Forget it All'' (review of N. Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten), Artnet, October 1997

"My Summer at Home: Art Disappears on Staten Island,'' Part 2, Fall 1997

"The Twilight of Minimalism,'' Artnet, August 1997

"Ancestor Shields of the Asmat,'' Artnet, April 1997

"Earl Cunningham: Caribbean Flavor, Yankee Values,'' '' Artnet, February 1997

"Dada Invades New York: New York Dada at the Whitney Museum,'' '' Artnet, December 1996

"Outside In: `A Labor of Love' at the New Museum,'' '' Artnet, April 1996

"Alternative Art and Politics: From Berkeley to the Lower East Side,'' '' Artnet, March 1996 (also published in The Advocate, GC-CUNY)

"Abstract Video Art," Tema Celeste, Spring 1991

"Mirit Cohen, LaMama Gallery," exhibition review, Cover magazine, April 1991

"Art and Discontent by Thomas McEvilley," Cover, May 1991

"South Bronx Show '91: Fashion Moda," Cover, November 1991

"Processing Myth: At the Core of the Nouveau Vogue,'' interview with critic/curators Collins and Milazzo, Cover, October 1990

Co-editor (with Josh Gosciak), introduction, A Day in the Life: Tales from the Lower East (Autonomedia, 1990)

"Kiki's Paris, by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin,'' Cover , May 1989

Guest editor, introductory essay, "Amusement'' issue of New Observations magazine, 1985

"Coney Island, Baby: Artists Infiltrate Fun Park," feature, East Village Eye, August 1985

various articles and reviews for East Village Eye, 1980-90

various reviews and articles for Artforum and Art-Rite, 1974-76, including Jean Dupuy, Stefan Eins, Gordon Matta-Clark, Marybeth Edelson, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Willoughby Sharp, Richard Mock, Jerry Kearns, Mel Ramos, Dottie Attie, Connie de Jong

Work in Progress:

revision of dissertation; archival projects; book promotion; planning travel and freelance extra-mural teaching

Related Professional Experience:

Editorial

2003-06 – assisting Clayton Patterson, editing political history anthology Resistance

1987 - art editor, East Village Eye, NYC

1974-1990 - typesetter, freelance editor

1975 - contributing editor, Art-Rite, NYC

1974-1975 – internship, hired as reviewer for Artforum magazine

Archival

2005 – work with Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies organizing Colab and ABC No Rio papers

2003-ongoing – administration of video archive of MWF Video distribution project

2003-04 – Story Caf, video oral history project for Howl! Festival of Lower East Side culture (various venues)

2002 – video oral history project for artist Curtis Cuffie, showed at Cooper Union; archiving art and videotapes of Collaborative Projects and MWF Video with grant from New York State Council on the Arts (ongoing)

2001 – founding member, Oral New York oral history collective; portfolio and box construction workshop, Lower East Side Silkscreen Workshop

2000-01 – archival consultant, Fales Library, New York University and RepoHistory; consultant, Franklin Furnace Archives of the Avant-Garde project

Artistic Projects

2007 – editor, essay in Staten Island Movie edition of ETG Book Caf assembling magazine

2005 – Sprawl Desk, installation in Kennesaw State University annual faculty exhibition; boiling world component in collaborative Katrina-themed installation

2004 – concept, organizer Forest of Fun environmental education area at Staten Island Waterfront Festival public event on five days July-November; Dada Family Album performance, Day de Dada, Staten Island

2003 – curator, Green Home, multimedia exhibition of ecological art at Winter Palace (my studio), Staten Island, May; organizing committee S.I. Greens Eco Fest, a four day exposition, convener of panel Paradigms of Sustainability at Wagner College; built gazebo of weed trees for Eco Fest 1.5 at waterfront festival; Der Oberdada performance, Day de Dada, Staten Island

2000-01 - producer, weekly summer video screenings and salon for MWF Video at Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York (schedule at www.brickhaus.com/pixelnation/); reinstated Collaborative Projects non-profit status (with Stefan Eins)

1999 - project director, participating artist in Landscape Project, Staten Island

1986-ongoing - director, Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video, distribution company for artists' video catalogue: brickhaus.com/amoore/; summer 2000 exhibition series: brickhaus.com/houseorgan

1986 – exhibiting artist Berlin/New York at Neue Gesellschaft fr bildende Kunst, Berlin; Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC

1981-82 - executive producer, "Potato Wolf'' artists' cable television series; exhibited at Millennium Film Workshop, Kitchen, White Columns, NYC (with Colab and Potato Wolf); LACE, Los Angeles (with ABC No Rio); Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (with Colab)

1980 - co-organizer of the Real Estate Show, and co-founder (with Robert Goldman and Rebecca Howland) of ABC No Rio gallery, NYC; produced numerous film and video works, participated in Colab exhibitions; member Times Square Show organizing committee

1977 - founding member, Collaborative Projects (aka Colab); writer and film artist

Exhibition Work

2007 – ABC No Rio participation for Communal Spaces/Community Places/Common Rooms at Common Room 2, New York

2004 – consultant, East Village USA exhibition at New Museum of Contemporary Art; Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor exhibition at Kunst Werke, Berlin

2002-03 – consultant, Downtown New York exhibition committee, Grey Art Gallery, New York University

1998 – curator, "Mitch Corber: Selected Works '70s, '80s,' 90s,'' Scott Pfaffman Gallery, NYC; exhibited, Bronx Community College Faculty Art Exhibition

1996 – assistant to Francis Nauman on New York Dada exhibition, Whitney Museum of Art

1995 – curated "Rumpus,'' group exhibition at Mayana Gallery, NYC

1993 – "No Man's Land,'' storefront window exhibition of anonymous 19th century landscape images, Staten Island

1986 – exhibited video work, Neue Gesellschaft fr bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC

1986-1988 – produced video exhibitions at nightclubs (Limelight, Knitting Factory) and art gallery venues

1985 – "Studio Melee'' video installation and performance at "Artist and the Computer'' exhibition, City College (with Terry Mohre)

1983 – "Studio Melee'' video installation and performance at Hallwalls gallery, Buffalo, NY (with Terry Mohre); installation at Concord Gallery, NYC

1975 – curated exhibition of Joseph Beuys multiples at University of California, Riverside art gallery (Beuys first non-commercial exhibition in the United States)

Presentations and Papers:

presentation of book Resistance with Clayton Patterson and Jim Feast at Bluestockings Books (May) and 16 Beaver Group (June); host for Temporary Services dinner at 16 Beaver Group, New York City, March 2007

Group Work, on artists collectivity at Northern Illinois University, March 2007

Art Histories and Collectivity, for Basekamp part of Locally Localized Gravity exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, January 24, 2007

The Pedagogy of Cultural Systems: `Art Worlds of Atlanta at Trans: A Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 19-22, 2006 (paper may be online at Trans website)

(teaching) class presentation on social sculpture in Ulf Zimmermans seminar on sprawl, Public Administration program, Kennesaw State University, March 2006

paper, Arts of Living, symposium on the Pratt Planning Papers, Pratt Institute; presentation on artists organization at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, November 2005

(teaching) presentation on the East Village in Maureen Connors MFA seminar, Queens College, CUNY; on Colab in Rhea Anastas museum studies class, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, March 2005

convener of symposium Pickled Bohemia: East Village USA In Focus at Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University (also presenter); organizer, Artists Speakout on East Village USA at Bowery Poetry Club, March 2005

panelist, Multiplicity, Aesthesis and the Social at Art, Circuitry and Ecology conference in honor of Gregory Bateson, Graduate Center, City University of New York, November 2004

presenter with 16 Beaver group at The Interventionists exhibition at Mass MOCA, North Adams, Mass., September 2004

presenter at Free Cooperation conference, Department of Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 2004

panelist, The Movable East, Howl! festival East Village art panel, Angel Orensanz Center, August 2003

A Short History of Collectivity in Modern Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, symposium for Critical Mass exhibition, April 2002 (paper online)

Utopia Now: Arts Politics of Need, paper at Whither the Alternative Space New Visions, New Models, New York University Steinhardt School of Education, January 2002

respondent at College Art Association panel Collectivism After Modernism, convened by Greg Sholette and Blake Stimson, 2001

panel discussion with Gareth James and Bennett Simpson, "Greater New York'' exhibition, P.S. 1 Museum, 1999

"Accounting for New York City Artists' Organizations,'' College Art Association panel on Archives of the Avant-Garde convened by Martha Wilson, 1999 (paper online)

"Rivington Skool,'' at Toyo Tsuchiya's mid-career retrospective, Asian American Arts Centre October 1999

"Sounding Off: Urban Encounters at the New Museum,'' panel organized by Greg Sholette at New Museum of Contemporary Art, August 19980

organizer, moderator, paper, "Collecting the Street: Martin Wong's Graffiti Holdings,'' panel at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, May 1998

"My Dream,'' panel on art in Staten Island, organized by Ron Moresan at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Fall 1997

"Holger Cahill's Inje-Inje and Greenwich Village,'' University Settlement House lecture series, 1994

"Curtis Cuffie, Homeless Artist,'' "Lost Genius'' symposium at Nassau Community College, NY, 1993

talk at Small Computers in the Arts (SCAN) convocation, Philadelphia, PA 1993

Grants and Awards:

Pratt Industries, support for environmental education program, 2004

New York State Council on the Arts, video preservation grant (organizational), 2002-03

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, public art project grant, 1999

John Rewald dissertation fellowship, Art History Department, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 1998

authored Doctoral Student Council grants for Part (1997-98)

travel award, Art History Department, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, 1997

graduate teaching fellowship, Bronx Community College, CUNY (three years, 1997-99)

various University tuition awards and working fellowships, 1992-95

National Endowment for the Arts video art project grant, 1985

co-authored various grants for ABC No Rio to National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts (1980-1982)

co-authored various grants for Collaborative Projects to NEA (1978, 1979), NYSCA (1978-84)

Chancellor's Award, University of California, Riverside, 1975

National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist, 1969