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Prof Nikos Papastergiadis

Professor, Cultural Studies and Media & Communications

Qualifications

BA Hons (Melb), PhD (Cambridge)

Biography

Nikos Papastergiadis was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the School of Culture and Communication he was Deputy Director of the Australia Centre at the University of Melbourne; Head of the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of Arts; lecturer in Sociology and recipient of the Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester.

Current research

Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space

ARC Discovery Project (2007-2009) with Scott McQuire and Sean Cubitt

Visit the Spatial Aesthetics website for more information

The core aim of this project is to provide a critical analysis of the impact of large electronic screens on contemporary forms of social agency in public space. Its central hypothesis is that the emergent creative practices associated with the new generation of public screens offer distinctive opportunities for public interaction and civic revitalization. Realization of this potential demands the development of new models for utilizing media technologies, negotiating the competing interests of the public and private sectors, and addressing increasingly diverse and mobile urban populations. The project is designed around two related strands: the sociological analysis of public interactions with large public screens, and the contextualization of artistic interventions in city life.

Publications

Books

• Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (Rivers Oram Press, 2006)
• Metaphor + Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontents (Artspace Publications, 2004)
• The Turbulence of Migration (Polity Press, 2000)
• Dialogues in the Diasporas: Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity (Rivers Oram Press, 1998)
• Modernity as Exile: The Figure of the Stranger in John Berger's Writing (Manchester University Press, 1993)

Edited books

• Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, co-edited with Scott McQuire (Melbourne University Press, 2005)
• Complex Entanglements: Art, Cultural Difference & Globalization (Rivers Oram Press, 2003)
• What John Berger Saw (Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, 2000)
• Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations (INIVA, 1996)
• Random Access: Ambient Fears, co-edited with Pavel Buchler (Rivers Oram Press, 1996)
• Random Access: On Crisis and its Metaphors, co-edited with Pavel Buchler (Rivers Oram Press, 1995)

Book chapters

• "Ambient Fears", Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility, eds Maria Maragoin and Effi Yiannopoulou (Rodopi, 2006), pp. 119-140.
• "The Meek Michael Riley", Michael Riley; Sights Unseen, ed. Brenda Croft (National Gallery of Australia, 2006), pp. 67-73.
• "Division", Sociology: Place, Time and Division, eds P. Beilhartz and T. Hogan (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 336-342.
• "After Empire", with Scott McQuire, Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, eds Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis (Melbourne University Press, 2005), pp. 2-10.
• "From Parafunctional Spaces to Shiny Ruins", with Scott McQuire, ed. N. Tsoutas Knowledge+Dialogue+Exchange: Remapping Cultural Globalisms From the South (Artspace, 2005), pp. 83-100.
• "The Homeless Citizen", Race, Identity and Representation in Education, eds C. McCarthy et al. (Routledge, 2005), pp.117-136.
• "Creative Practice and Critical Thinking", Innovations in Australian Arts, eds R. Wissler et al. (Palgrave, 2004).
• "A Thousand Beautiful Things: with Jimmie Durham and Maria-Theresa Alves", in Criticism + Engagement + Thought, eds B. French, A. Geczy & N. Tsoutas (Artspace, 2004), pp. 42-50.
• "Temporary Migrations", Freefall, ed. Eileen Daly (Arts Council of England, 2004), pp. 6-11.
• "Creative Practice and Critical Thinking", Innovations in Australian Arts, eds R.Wissler, B. Haseman, S. Wallace & M. Keane (Post Pressed, 2004), pp. 159-170.
• "The Limits of Cultural Translation", Over Here, eds J. Fisher, and G. Mosquera (MIT Press, 2004), pp. 330-347.
• "South-South-South", Complex Entanglements: Art, Cultural Difference & Globalization, ed. Nikos Papastergiadis (Rivers Oram Press, 2003).
• "The Boredom with Cultural Identity and the Ecstasy of Transculturalism", Complex Entanglements: Art, Cultural Difference & Globalization, ed. Nikos Papastergiadis (Rivers Oram Press, 2003).
• "The Double of Mimesis", Re:Trace Dialogues: Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture, eds J. Chuhan, A. Dimitraki & E. Thomas (Centre for Art International & Liverpool Biennial, 2002), pp. 14-19.
• "Future as Context", After Ground Zero, ed. Heinz-Peter Schwefel (Dumont, Cologne, 2002).
• "Faith without Certitudes", Hope: New Philosophies for Change, ed. M. Zournazi (Pluto Press, Sydney, 2002), pp. 78-96.
• "Traces Left in Cities", Poetics in Architecture, ed. Leon Van Schaik (Architectural Design, Wiley Academy, London, 2002), pp. 45-51.
• "Faith without Certitudes" with Mary Zournazi, Hope: New Philosophies for Change, edited, M. Zournazi (Pluto Press, Sydney, 2002), pp. 78-96.
• "Restless Hybrids", The Third Text Reader: on Art, Culture and Theory, eds R. Araeen, S. Cubbitt & Z. Sardar (Continuum, London, 2002), pp. 166-176.
• "Disappearing re-Publics", The Republic of Ideas, eds B. Buckley & J. Conomos (Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001), pp. 208-222.
• "Statelessness", encyclopaedia entry, Encyclopaedia on Democratic Thought, eds Joe Foweraker and Paul Barry Clarke (Routledge, London, 2001).
• "The Elastic Metaphor: towards a theoretical outline of cultural identity", Formations: A 21st Century Media Studies textbook, ed. D. Fleming (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001), pp. 132 -152.
• "The Possibility of Going Beyond Yourself" & "From the Edge of Cities", What John Berger Saw, ed. Nikos Papastergiadis (Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2000), pp. 5-12 & 163-177.
• "Tracing Hybridity in Theory", Debating Hybridity, ed. Pnina Werbner (Zed Press, London, 1996), pp. 257-281; also re-printed LPH-Revista de Historia, no. 8 (Brazil, 1998-1999).
• "The Friendly Eye", Sonya Boyce: Performance, ed. Mark Crimson, (Institute of Internal Visual Arts, London, 1998), pp. 16-24.
• "Reading Bhabha's DissemiNation", Paradigms For Self-Definition in Post-Colonial Writing, ed. John C. Hawley (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1996), pp. 120-142.
• "The Parafunctional", (with Heather Rogers), The Dream of Urbanity, ed. John Stathatos (Academy Group, London, 1996), pp.76-86.
• "The One and the Many", Ambient Fears, ed. Buchler and Nikos Papastergiadis (Rivers Oram Press, London, 1996), pp. 1-8.
• "Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations", ...Because You were There: Deterritorialised Communities and Hybrid Identities, ed. Nikos Papastergiadis (INIVA, London, 1996), pp. 8-19.
• "The Home in Modernity", Excavating Modernism, ed. Alex Coles (BACKless Books, London, 1996), pp. 95-110.
• "Introduction", Random Access, (Rivers Oram Press, London, 1995), pp. 1-9.
• "Metaphor: The Energy for Beginning", New Art From Latin America: Expanding the Continent (Oriana Baddeley, Academy Group, London, 1994), pp.18-25.
• "The Journeys Within: Migration and Identity in Greek-Australian Literature", Striking Chords: Multicultural Literature in Australia, eds Sneja Gunew and Kateryna O. Longley (Allen & Unwin, 1992), pp.149-165.
• "Strategy, Identity, Writing: An Interview with Gayatri Spivak", The Post-Colonial Critic, ed. S. Harasym (Routledge, New York, 1990), pp. 35-50.

Journal articles

• "Glimpses of Cosmopolitanism", European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 10, no. 1, Papastergiadis, Nikos (February, 2007), pp. 139-152.
• "The Invasion Complex: The Abject Other and Spaces of Violence", Geographika Annals: Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, vol. 88B, no. 4 (2006), pp. 429-442.
• "Modernism and Contemporary Art", Theory, Culture & Society (special issue: New Encyclopedia Project "Problematizing Global Knowledge"), vol. 23, no. 2-3 (May, 2006), pp. 466-469.
• "Hybridity and Ambivalence: Places and Flows in Contemporary Art and Culture", Theory Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 4 (August, 2005) pp. 39-64; also republished in abridged form in Spanish in Revista de Occidente, vol. 286, pp. 33-42; and in New Zealand in Visit 7, pp. 3-5.
• "The Invasion Complex and Australian Political Culture", Thesis Eleven, no. 78 (August, 2004), pp. 7-26; also republished in I confini della liberta, ed. Sandro Mezzandra (Derive Approdi, Roma, 2004) pp. 245-273.
• "The Invasion Complex in Australian Political Culture", Thesis Eleven, vol. 78 (August, 2004) pp. 8-27.
• "Small Gestures in Specific Places", Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, no. 6 (2002), pp. 106-113.
• "The Presence of Place in Art", Australian Art Education, vol. 25, no. 2 (2002), pp. 4-9.
• "On Museums, Galleries and their Walls", Postwest, no. 14 (1999), pp. 25-30.
• "The Deterritorialization of Culture", Arena Journal, no. 11 (1998), pp.145-170
• "Reading DissemiNation", Millennium, vol. 20, no. 3 (special issue: Re-imagining the Nation) (Winter, 1991), pp. 507-521.

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