Public lectures and panels: Events Organized and Moderated

Redistribution, discussion series with invited artists, economists, legal scholars, and others on equity in the arts and economic justice beyond. Co-organized with Kenneth Pietrobono. Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY. July 2020–ongoing. (Online)

Rethinking Artists’ Rights, public roundtable series with invited artists, historians, and lawyers, facilitated with Kenneth Pietrobono. Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. Event topics: National Endowment for the Arts ‘decency clause’: 20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1) (1990), April 18, 2018; The Visual Artists Rights Act: 17 U.S.C. § 106a (1990), May 15, 2018; The American Royalties Too Act of 2015: H.R. 1881, June 18, 2018.

“Self-Governance as Pedagogy: Of Other Spaces,” panel organizer, moderator, The Art & Law Program at Alternative Art School Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. November 19, 2016.

“Transformative Failures: On Canceled Exhibitions,” discussion with Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, The Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, PA. October 10, 2013.

“When Cancellations Become Form,” discussion with Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. June 13, 2012.

“Canceled,” screening & lecture, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. May 23, 2012.

Public lectures and panels

“Seth Siegelaub: ‘Better Read Than Dead’,” Paula Cooper Gallery, 192 Books, New York, NY. January 26, 2021. (Online)

“‘I never write, I just do’: Seth Siegelaub’s Writings and Interviews,” Printed Matter, New York, NY. January 15, 2021. (Online)

“Conceptual Art Facing the Law,” public seminar, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. August 14 and 16, 2019.

Artist’s Contract, conversation with Alex Strada, ChaShaMa, New York, NY. March 27, 2019.

“‘The Artist’s Contract’ to Smart Contracts: Models for Artists’ Equity 1971–2019,” Digital Life Initiative Seminar, lecture, Cornell Tech, New York, NY. February 28, 2019.

Smart Contracts for Creativity: Royalties and IP, panelist, CryptoCreative at Creative Tech Week, New York, NY. May 10, 2018.

Copyright for Artists and Academics, panelist, SOHO20, New York, NY. February 2, 2018.

“Seth Siegelaub’s Many Circulations,” public lecture, Miércoles de SOMA, SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico. August 9, 2017.

The Invisible Hand, panelist, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. January 28, 2017.

 Artists’ Resale Royalties, Art Basel Miami, Sessions, Miami Beach, FL. December 4, 2016.

An intimate discussion with artist Dread Scott, panelist, For Freedoms and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY. July 20, 2016.

Social Ecologies, moderator, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY. February 13, 2016.

“Archiving the Experimental Television Center,” Central New York Humanities Corridor, Graduate Student Public Humanities Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. October 15, 2015.

Artists’ Resale Rights, organized with Artist’s Resale Royalty working group of Working Artists for the Greater Economy (WAGE), lecture and panel moderator, with guests including Justice Barbara Jaffe and Hans Haacke, Artists’ Space Books & Talks, New York, NY. July 22, 2015.

“Gauging the Gray Area,” presentation and workshop collaboration with Helena Keeffe for charge: Artist Sustainability & Compensation practicum, The Art League Houston, Houston, TX. November 8, 2014.

The Piracy Project, panelist, The Classroom, Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. September 28, 2014.

“Gauging the Gray Area,” presentation and workshop collaboration with Helena Keeffe, the Arts Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. April 19, 2014.

“Critical Circulation: Artists’ Books, Labor, and the Law,” lecture for series Making Social Realities with Books, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark. January 23, 2014.

“Workshop: Non-Participation,” workshop for series Making Social Realities with Books, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark. January 22, 2014.

“Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures,” lecture, Bureau Publik, Copenhagen, Denmark. January 21, 2014.

“Art, Work, and Artwork: Intellectual Property in The Art Workers’ Coalition and Siegelaub’s Agreement,” symposium presentation for the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: My Gallery is the World Now, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. November 22, 2013.

Discussion with Blonde Art Books, panelist, The Classroom, Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. September 21, 2013.

“Curating Cancelations,” lecture, Furthermore, Washington, D.C. June 13, 2013.

“Art & Economics,” discussion moderator, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY. June 26, 2011.

“Market, Alternative,” workshop collaboration with Ricky Manne, Trade School, New York, NY. February 16, 2011.

The Grinspoon Foundation Conference on Entrepreneurship in the Arts, panelist, Springfield, MA. November 8, 2006.

Academic Conferences: Panels Organized

Fair Use in Practice, Panel Co-chair with Amy Whitaker, The College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. February 16–19, 2022.

 Artists Modeling Legal Futures, Roundtable Chair, The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Quinnipiac University School of Law, North Haven, Connecticut, March 7–8, 2020.

(Un)Common Intent: Performance Scores as Contractual Exchange, Panel Co-chair with John A. Tyson, The College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA. February 21–24, 2018.

Seth Siegelaub and the Expanded Archive of Conceptual Art, Panel Co-chair with Sara Martinetti, The College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. February 15–18, 2017.

Academic Conferences: Papers Presented

“‘Use the system as a pipeline’: Artists’ Resale Royalties to the Redistribution of Wealth,” Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellows Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. March 12–14, 2021. (Online)

“Remedies for Inequity 1971-2021: Resale Royalties to Redistribution,” Working with Intellectual Property: Legal Histories of Innovation, Labor, and Creativity, Stanford Center for Law and History, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA. April 23, 2021. (Online)

“‘No organization, no dues, no government agency… just your will to use it’: The Artist’s Contract as Smart Contract,” International Law Section, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Miami, FL. April 14–16, 2021. (Online)

“Underwriting Conceptual Art: Seth Siegelaub’s Patrons and Partners in Critique,” A Symposium on the History of Art, The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and The Frick Collection, New York, NY. October 16, 2020. (Online)

“Subversion in the Fine Print: ‘The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement’ at Auction,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. February 12–15, 2020. 

“Equal Representation in Museums and ‘Equal Protection of the Laws’: The Women’s Movement and Artists’ Rights,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI. November 7–10, 2019.

“‘Whatever you do, do not give up the art battlefield’: Legal Activism, Contracts, and Collaboration between Seth Siegelaub and Lucy Lippard,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. February 13–16, 2019.

“‘A Perfect Waffle Every Time!’: The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement as Smart Contract,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, Art Historians of Southern California affiliate panel, New York, NY. February 13–16, 2019.

“Determining Obligation: Contractual Relations in John Cage’s Indeterminate Scores,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA. February 21–24, 2018.

“Publishing Conceptual Art: Seth Siegelaub’s Economy of Intellectual Property and Books,” The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. March 16–17, 2018.

“The Limits of Artistic Control: The Artist’s Contract Between Democracy and Exclusion,” IAWIS/AIERTI International Conference, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. July 10–14, 2017.

“Contract as Form and Concept: The Siegelaub-Projansky Agreement in Art and Law,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. February 15–18, 2017.

“Active Forms and Legal Arrangements: Law as Medium in the work of Michael Asher, Maria Eichhorn, and Cameron Rowland,” The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, University of Connecticut Law School, Hartford, CT. April 1–2, 2016.

“Conceptual to Legal: The Juridical and Legislative Legacy of Seth Siegelaub’s Artist’s Agreement,” The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. March 6–7, 2015.

“Siegelaub’s Contract as Critical Circulation,” Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies, New York University, New York, NY. April 11–13, 2014.

“… originality doesn’t exist anyway, only authenticity,” The College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. February 13–16, 2013.

Discussant

“Fact, Fiction and the In-between,” What Now? The Politics of Listening, Art in General and The Vera List Center, New School for Social Research, New York, NY. April 24–25, 2015.