In 1986, I graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with an MFA. I moved to Chicago in 1988, having been awarded a post-graduation fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service to attend the University of Chicago Committee for the Visual Arts. While academic frameworks for doctorates in the arts did not exist yet, my hope was to develop an interdisciplinary career, integrating my then emphasis on sculpture and installation with my expressed interest in reading theory, broadly across the arts and sciences. A strong influence that I only later realized had been crucial was a multi-year involvement that took place even before I attended art school, with a youth group that pursued experimental music, culminating in a MusiCircus event led by John Cage himself under a circus tent, in Bonn, Germany, in 1979.

Following my year at the University of Chicago I built up a studio practice and, seeking continued, focused conversation, began to pursue teaching opportunities. Early employers were the American Academy of Art, Columbia College, Illinois State University, Northwestern University, The School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago. Courses I taught spanned Drawing, Foundations, and Sculpture classes, with an expansion into Art History and eventually Cultural Management. Cultural Management was relatively new at the time. Unlike Institutional Critique, with its strong advocacy positions, as for example pursued by Hans Haacke and Andrea Fraser, Cultural Management takes a holistic view of art worlds and explores how they are tied into international, federal and municipal policies, but also examines in detail how organizations function.

What brought me to cultural management was a shift in my work from sculpture, to light installation, into a desire to present the contents of my readings in the arts, which I attempted to facilitate by creating diagrams through which I first taught and eventually also engaged arts audiences. This development is punctuated by a number of key exhibitions. In 1996, I was the youngest participant in Chicago’s Museum of Contempary Art’s overview, “Art in Chicago 1945-1995”, curated by Lynne Warren. Included was a light installation. In 2005, I participated in the Hyde Park Art Center’s inaugural exhibition at its new location, “Takeover”. There I presented a large-scale organization diagram, showing the fluid interactions of board members, teaching and exhibiting artists, administrators and funders in creating the daily life and structure of the Art Center. Other such diagrams were created for and exhibited at the Rockford Art Museum and many other arts organizations. My professorship in Arts Administration and Policy at the SAIC followed.

What increasingly intrigued me was the communicative ability of diagrams, but I was also aware of push-back by audience members who felt trapped in the outlines I

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created. Interactive work followed, which was eventually printed and presented on mobile Whiteboards. Another key exhibit took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011, this time curated by Tricia van Eck as part of a series of interactions for “Without You I’m Nothing”. I produced 5 mobile, pre-printed, magnetic diagram Whiteboards, which I animated daily through performative talks, treating the Whiteboards similarly to John Cage’s prepared pianos.

As my presence to animate diagram boards had become crucial to the work, static exhibition venues were no longer easily able to facilitate well what I needed. One solution was to participate in residencies, to further develop my work. Even before “Without You I’m Nothing”, in 2008, I spent a summer at the Banff Art Centre in Canada. There, a parallel strand of dialogic work was initiated. Colleagues invited me to accompany studio visits and conversations with diagram responses. The resulting drawings led to further, deeper conversations about their modes of working. I have pursued this avenue further. In 2012, I devoted a sabbatical residency in Krems and Vienna, Austria, to asking theorists, artists and experimental musicians “How do you work?”. Those conversations were transformed into diagrams, presented to the conversation partners, who in turn created new works in response. This is now an ongoing exploration, funded in often bi-annual research visits by the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

To bring outcomes of this work to Chicago, I built out my studio into a meeting site. Supported by project grants from first DCASE and then IAC, I created a diagram specifically to facilitate conversations among artist about their work. I call it the Braid. The overall project is titled “Talking Whiteboards” and invited ove45 artists into conversation, sparked by the same question, “How do you work?” A series of videos has been created and is publicly shared. In addition, I also interacted with Chicago based experimental musicians, in the same manner as in Vienna. It is still my goal to bring these cohorts together in a project.

Since 2007 I have taught full time, and have chaired my department 5 of those years, through 2017. As part of my academic relationships, I have extensively presented, chaired and workshopped at conferences. To continue to create a bridge between cultural management and visual art is a challenge I appreciate. Mapping myself onto “The Braid”, it is clear that a key concept it is intended to convey applies to my work as well. That is the idea that work is ‘topologic’. If you need to put a lot of energy into one area – for example applying for grants - the shape of the work shifts to accommodate by taking energy away somewhere else – for example working in the studio. Now that I am on sabbatical for a full year, I am fully focusing on advancing

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my studio practice. True to the need for participants, I invited a cohort of former students to experiment with me in my studio over this past summer. In that context, I have developed the notion of ‘Performative Diagrammatics’, to emphasize that diagrams need to be operated. Earlier, I expressed that notion by editing a book, titled ‘Useful Pictures’. There I assembled works by other artists working in a similar vein. Most integrate performance with the diagrammatic work they produce. The other venues I was able to create are a seminar at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, where I am currently working with a dedicated group of students in preparation of an exhibition in Berlin, in March 2019, where the concept of Performative Diagrammatics will be launched at the Kunstverein Tiergarten Nord. That work is supported by an Erasmus grant, the European University research and exchange fund. In January 2019, I will test some of the concepts at an Annual Cultural Management conference in Vienna, through a scheduled workshop.

As part of the integration of the studio, academic and teaching aspects of my work, I have begun to develop a course in support of freshman literacy, pushing Performative Diagrammatics to also become a support system for academic reading. That course has been scheduled at SAIC for 2020. With Chicago performance gallery Defribrillator’s Joseph Raven I have scheduled studio sessions in November of 2018 to work this out further. I am in ongoing conversation with the Joyce Foundation, slowly letting these works germinate into additional applications, mobilizing artistic works into community service applications. I am also hoping that this work will make its way into my long-standing involvement with North Lawndale’s Historic and Cultural Society. There, I have been helping to develop community ecologies, maps and outreach strategies in support of neighborhood recovery.

This fall, I celebrated 30 years in Chicago. I have lived and worked here longer than in my native Germany. I am proud to have achieved a tenured professorship, excited to be based here and grounded in multiple communities, while I keep reaching into both European discourses and resources to enrich my local work. Performative Diagrammatics is a unique concept I could not have developed in another place.

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Adelheid Mers

amers@saic.edu

Home page: http://adelheidmers.orgStudio blog: http://usefulpictures.comResearch Catalogue repository: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/?person=56237

Art Research/Practice: Performative Diagrammatics; Epistemology of aesthetic practices; cultural ecologies; Associate Professor, Dept. of Arts Administration and Policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chair 2011/12 and 2013 - 2017; on sabbatical 2018/19

Projects, Commissioned Works, Solo Exhibitions. 2019 Membrane; exhibition, developed in collaboration with Media Environments at Bauhaus University

Weimar. Kunstverein Tiergarten Nord. Berlin, Germany2018 Performative Diagrammatics Workshops; The Reading Room, Chicago2018 long-term project (envisioned 2018 - 2023), working towards the creation of a virtual museum with the

North Lawndale Historic and Cultural Society, Chicago2018 consulting - artist led community development in the Midwest; Joyce Foundation, Chicago2016 Talking Whiteboards, The Reading Room, Chicago, funded by DCASE and IAP grants. Conversations

facilitated through multiple Whiteboard based diagrams, with artists and arts administrators, with focus on The Braid diagram. Edited videos shared on freely accessible, public video platform. 2014 Enter the Matrix, solo exhibition of artworks generated through the project Art Work (Music, Visual Art,

Management), including diagrams, audio responses by Andrea Sodomka (Vienna), Maria Gstaettner (Vienna) and Judith Leemann (Boston), and a collaboration, The Face Field Project, with programmer Robert Woodley; Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Gallery; Chicago2014 Diagramming Arts Ecologies in North Lawndale; assisted by students in the Arts Administration and

Policy program at SAIC; Homan Square Foundation and SAIC, Chicago2013/14 Diagramming Arts Ecologies in 5 Chicago South side neighborhoods; assisted by students in the Arts

Administration and Policy program at SAIC; South East Chicago Commission, Chicago2013 Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center; Diagrams generated through community-based interviews,

with students in the Arts Administration and Policy program at SAIC; exhibition and conversations; Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL2013 Granting for Arts Organizations and Individual Artists, seen from Artists' Perspectives, executed as

diagram; Commissioned Research, 3Arts Foundation, Chicago2013 Art Work (Music) - diagram facilitated conversations and feedback cycles with creative practitioners,

resulting in sound works, drawings, photographic images, video and animations. In cooperation with sound artist, Andrea Sodomka, on invitation of Doris Ingrisch Professor for Gender Studies, Institut für Kulturmanagement und Kulturwissenschaft (IKM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts (UWM), Vienna, Austria

Project is ongoing2012 Chicago Cultural Plan Headquarters at the Chicago Creative Expo; Diagrams generated through

visitor interviews; on invitation of Julie Burros, Director of Cultural Planning at City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events; with students of the Arts

Administration and Policy program at SAIC; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago2012 pARTicipate – Einladung Diagramme (weiter)zuentwickeln, exploratory conversations initiating Project

Art Work (Music, Visual Art, Management), with invited visual artists, sound artists, musicians, theorists and administrators, conducted on site at VBKÖ (Verein Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich), Vienna, Austria

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2011 “Talking about Creativity”, a week of Lecture Performances with prepared Whiteboards, as part of the “Interactions” series in the Exhibition “Without You I’m Nothing”, curated by Tricia Van Eck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2009 “Visual Dialog Project - Defining Museum Ethics”, Distributed Post-Conference Diagram; Museum Ethics Conference, Seton Hall, NJ,

2008/09 “Embedded Artist”, City of Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology; Diagram decision making and public policy processes; develop logo and visual executive summary for “Initiative on Digital Excellence”; create visual representations for Broadband Stimulus Fund Application; attend meetings and survey and visually interpret studies, statistics, proposals and other materials produced by other academics, government agencies and consulting firms;

2008 “Peck School of the Arts Organogram 2008”, Interview Project and Solo Exhibition, Inova Institute, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

2008 “Diagram of the Resource Center Organizational Network”, a non-profit environmental education organization, live diagramming at a fundraising event, hosted by Caro D’Offay Gallery, Chicago

2007 “Art 44/46”, created a map/game of Lakeview East, printed in an edition of 500, organized by Stuart Keeler, Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce, Chicago

2007 “KS(AM)EC”, drawings and diagrams in response to Kerry Schneider’s SAIC/MAAAP thesis; solo exhibition in conjunction with an Arts Administration Symposium, ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL

2005 “World of Art”, game and poster for “Setting up your Art and your Life” symposium, commissioned by Mary Jane Jacob; SAIC, Chicago

2004 “backgrounds and conversations - reading George Lakoff before an election”, an installation of diagrams and photo backdrops, a public discussion about values (the artist was present and available for

conversations each afternoon), and a website for visitor photos taken with the provided backdrops; Solo Exhibition, Open Studio Project, City of Chicago, Chicago2004 “Looking at/Looking through”, (re-installation of Lakoff diagrams and backdrops) Anderson Gallery,

Drake University, Des Moines, IA2004 “Im Spiel”, images after texts by Vilém Flusser, solo exhibition, Jan Frühsorge Galerie für Zeichnung,

Berlin, Germany2003 “Home - Images after Texts by Vilém Flusser”, solo exhibition and acquisition as part of the collection of

the Vîlém Flusser Archive at the Hochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany; digitally exhibited at the IN OUT 2003 Festival, Prag, Czech Republic; prints shown at Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA, and at Dorman+Torluemke, Hammond, IN2000 “Think Tank”, light installation, created and maintained as a project space to study diagram

design and to create diagrams, also open to students for projects they wished to propose, in conjunction with a semester residency, Art Department Gallery, Columbia College,

Chicago1998 You need to bring a gift to attend this exhibition - work in progress, a light installation and evolving

exhibition that provided a shelf for visitor contributions (the gifts required to gain entry), hosted musical performances (Chicago Samba and Ensemble Mobius Midicus) and guest installations (2 invited artists took turns modifying the installation), was accompanied by an exhibition of photos taken in the previous installation (the museum space) and by a selection of second-hand t-shirts embroidered with the word “Immersion”(the gift shop); Tough Gallery, Chicago, IL1998 Fiat Lux - for Hélio from Adelight, an installation that invited performance and dance contributions and

produced a series of large-scale inkjet prints, of photos taken of activities in the installation; gifts were demanded to gain entry to the closing reception, gifts were displayed during the reception; in conjunction with a residency in the “Light Series”, Alfred University, Alfred, NY1997 The Truth, light installation, Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, IL1996 Acts/Projections, light installation, cast wall reliefs, and booklet, Tough Gallery/Uncomfortable Spaces,

Chicago1995 Portable Landscapes, felt and plywood floor sculptures, Tough Gallery/Uncomfortable Spaces, Chicago

Exhibition participation 2018 Performative Diagrammatics Events, Fall Gala, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago2017 Talking Whiteboards materials, with " WOUND ", Commons Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY2016 The Braid Diagram Whiteboard and multi-diagram wet-erase booklet, and a workshop in:

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"WOUND a practice space for “the mending of time and attention”, Caroline Woolard, and Stamatina Gregory, Cooper Union, New York

2015 Studio Sessions with composer/musicianJames Falzone and visual artist/educator Jim Duignan, photo composites, in: "Plague of Diagrams", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

2015 How I work, diagram flyer and SoundCloud audio link, in: "People's Pamphlets", part of Jessica Cochran's curatorial project for Printer's Ball, Chicago

2015 Studio Sessions, with sound artist Eric Leonardson, photo composite, and childhood work, in: Treats, curated by Rachel Harper, Chicago Art Department, Chicago

2014 Enormous PDF Selfie Diagram, in:Caps for Sale, an exhibition of work by artists wearing multiple hats (with Michelle Grabner, Matt Morris,

Karsten Lund), Bikeroom, Chicago2013/14 Fractal 3-Line Matrix and related Whiteboard Templates, in:

Faculty Projects, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2013 Art Work (Visual Art/Music) response audio files, in:

Believe Half of What You See And None of What You Hear, a project conceived by Georgia Kotretsos, as part of Sous nos yeux (part 1), curated by Abdellah Karroum at La Kunsthalle of Mulhouse,

France2012 Art Work (Visual Art): Industry of the Ordinary diagram, in:

"Sic Transit Gloria Mundi", curated by Adam Brooks and Mat Wilson, City of Chicago Cultural Center,Chicago, IL

2011 Critique after Deleuze diagram, in: D/RAFT, Art Action Field Kodra, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece

2011 Art Work (Visual Art): 6 Artists, in: "Write Now,” curated by Nathan Mason, City of Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2011 Art Work (Visual Art): 6 Artists diagrams, in: “Mutualisms”, curated by Kirsten Leenaars and Lise Haller-Baggesen, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago

2011 Hairy Blob Diagram and 3 monitor video installation of conversations with students, in: “Mash-ups”, curated by Eli Robb, Sonnenschein and Albright Galleries, Lake Forest College, IL

2010 Free Poster and Animated Diagram of the Exhibition Effervescent Condition, in: "Effervescent Condition", curated by Fang-Tze Hsu, part of "The Power of Copying", Xuzhou Museum of

Art, Xuzhou, China, and Gallery X, SAIC, Chicago2009 Flyer and Diagram based on material from the publication "The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists",

by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner, in: Picturing the Studio, curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago

2009 The Quai Branley Guestbook Project in: 39 Verbs, Produced by Industry of the Ordinary, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago

2009 Commissioned drawing, in: “The Chacon-Soto Show”, UBS 12x12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2009 Light Installation (1997), in: “Artists Run Chicago”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL2009 ISpace Organogram, in: “Response: Art and the Art of Criticism”, I-Space, Chicago, IL2008/09 Diagram Flyers, Selections from the MCA Collection, in:

“America Today”, curated by Elizabeth Smith and Tricia van Eck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago2008 Diagram on Creativity, Marker on Plexiglas, in:

“HereThereEverywhere”, curators Greg Knight and Sofia Zutautas, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago2007/08 Diagram Flyer Selections from the MCA Collection, in:

“Mapping the Self”, curated by Tricia van Eck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago2007/08 Rockford Art Museum Organogram, in:

“Fast Forward”, curated by Jim Yood and Lisa Wainwright, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL2007 How do design a diagram, in:

“DIY”, curators Doro Boehme and Kevin Henry, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL2006 Diagrams on Activism and Pedagogy, in:

“Negotiated Localities”, curators Claire Pentecost and Cindy Coleman, Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2006 LoBot Organogram, in: “New Cartographies”, LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA

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2006 Hyde Park Art Center Organogram, in: “Takeover”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2006 Reading Blankets, with Track House Nomadic Circus Experience and Other Worldly Delights: the Great Artist Landshare Remote Backside of Aspen Mountain, Stray Show, Chicago

2005 World of Art, vinyl print of game and oversized game pieces, at: Yard Sale @Track House, Track House, Oak Park, IL

2003 “Not Just a Pretty Face”, exhibition of patron commissioned artwork; work commissioned by Jeff and Linda Mercer, an exterior mural, with Patrick McGee; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

(catalog)2003 Diagrams after Vilém Flusser, in:

“Operation: Human Intelligence”, Contemporary Arts Council, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; (catalog); traveling to: Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2002 Diagrams after Vilém Flusser, in: “context II”, Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt, Germany2002 Diagrams after Vilém Flusser, in: “Mind and Matter”, HDC Gallery, Hammond, IN2002 Diagrams after 6 Authors, in:

“nubo wave map (space) bubble”, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL 2001 Diagrams after 6 Authors, at: “Magazine”, The Stray Show, with FGA, Chicago, IL2001 Light Installation, in: “What they half created”, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL2000 Light Installation connecting front and back of house, in: “Blink/Interventions in the Salon”, curated by

Brian Ritchards and Julie Charmelo,Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog)

2000 Installation for Audiences and Performers, a performance space created with light, for scheduled and spontaneous performances; in conjunction with “Site Works”, Gallery 312, Chicago

1998 Light Installation, in: “Not in my lobby, you don’t”, curated by Chuck Thurow and Ruth Horwich, Hyde Park Art Center and LaSalle Street Bridge House, Chicago, IL

1998 Light Installation, in: “Sculpture in Chicago: The Next Generation”, curated by Karen Indeck and Dennis Kowalski, UIC Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

1998 Light Installation, in: ART 1998 CHICAGO, The New Pier Show, Tough Gallery/Uncomfortable Spaces, Chicago, IL

1998 Light Installation, in: “The Harry Carey Show”, curated by Michelle Grabner/Brad Killam, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

1997 Light Installation, in: “Faculty Biennial”, Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, IL1997 Light Installation, in: “Current”, Michael Burns, Adelheid Mers, Dan Rose, in conjunction with ISEA,

Tough Gallery/Uncomfortable Spaces, Chicago, IL1997 Light Installation documentation, in: “The Art Exchange Show”, with Tough/Uncomfortable Spaces, New

York, NY1997 Light Installation documentation, in: ART 1997 CHICAGO, The New Pier Show, Tough

Gallery/Uncomfortable Spaces, Chicago, IL1997 Light Installation, in: “Saldo - Klaus Rinke Alumni Exhibition Project”, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany,

(Catalog)96/97 Light Installation, in: “Art in Chicago 1945-1995”, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary

Art, Chicago, IL (Catalog)1979 MusiCircus, participation in John Cage led event under a circus tent; Bonn, Germany

Public Art2016 "Spectrum of Knowledge - 14 subjects from the Library of Congress card catalog", Richard M. Daley

Library, Humboldt Park, with Patrick McGee, Chicago2005 “Heliosphere, Biosphere, Technosphere", Exelon Pavilion, Millennium Park Welcome Center, with

Patrick McGee, Chicago2004 “Firefighters’ Choice”, photo/aluminum mural of images selected with firehouse crew, Fire Station #3,

with Patrick McGee, Evanston, IL

ResidenciesSummer 2018 The Working Group for Unmaking, The Poor Farm, WISummer 2016 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI

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Summer 2014 Artist in Residence; Garland Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, ChicagoSummer 2012 Artist in Residence; VBKOE, Vienna, AustriaSummer 2012 Artist in Residence; Krems, AustriaFall 2011 Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MISummer 2008 Invited residency participant, “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible”;

Banff Centre Institute, Banff, Canada2004 Open Studio Project (State/Randolph), City of Chicago, Chicago, ILSpring 2000 Artist in Residence; Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Semester appointment to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and an exhibition, “Think Tank”Spring 1998 Artist in Residence, Light Series; Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Conferences and Symposia Spring 2019 workshop leader; Title: For an Art of Emigration. A game creation workshop. Annual conference

Fachverband Kulturmanagement, University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, AustriaSpring 2018 co-chair, paper, "Diversity – Opportunities and Challenges for Innovation and Leadership in Arts

Management” and paper: "US diversity discourses in the arts", Annual conference Fachverband Kulturmanagement, Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany

Fall 2017 Key contributor, "Retooling Critique Symposium", Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Fall 2016 paper: "The Braid Diagram and A Critique Template", Art School Critique 2.0 Symposium, Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York

Fall 2016 Co-convener and presenter: "Thought Catchers: on recurring themes in artistic practice", conference: Wissenskulturen im Dialog, Institute for Cultural Management/University of Music and Performing Arts (IKM/UWM), Vienna, Austria

Summer 2015 Presenter: "Some things I am figuring out"; Panelist: Diagrams as Pedagogy Section, Plague of Diagrams conference, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Spring 2015 Presenter: "Cultural Ecologies: Deep listening and the Curatorion of Comunity Engagement", Panel: Co-Producing a Heuristic Conceptualization of Curation. Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Summer 2014 Keynote: "Cultural Ecology Diagrams: 3 Chicago Case Studies" and respondent, "Making Artistic Inquiry Visible" panel, Conference: Mapping Culture: Communities, Sites and Stories

Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, PortugalSpring 2014 Keynote: "Flexible Art Worlds", Flexible Art Worlds Symposium, Drury University and MSU,

MOWinter 2014 Presenter: 3Arts Grant Research, Conference Fachverband Kulturmanagement, Kufstein, Austria

and Conference Matrix - Diagram for post-conference poster publication; commissioned by Fachverband Kulturmanagement

Fall 2013 Presenter: 3Arts Grant Research, Grant Makers in the Arts Conference and Respondent, Grant Makers in the Arts Pre-Conference, Philadelphia, PA,

Spring 2013 Panelist: Outer Regions Roundtable and Panel, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TNSpring 2013 Co-Chair, with Judith Leemann; Panel:  Beyond good or bad: practice derived epistemologies of

studio critique. CAA conference, New YorkWinter 2013 Respondent: Wissenskulturen im Dialog - Conference, Institut für Kulturmanagement und

Kulturwissenschaft (IKM); University of Music and Performing Arts (UWM), Vienna, Austriaand Conference Matrix - Diagram for post-conference poster distribution; commissioned by

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, AustriaFall 2012 Presentation: "Reverse Engineering: Towards a Taxonomy of Art Practices", AICAD Symposium

Remaking Research: Emerging Research Practices in Art and Design, Emily Carr University,Vancouver, Canada

Spring 2011 Presenter: "Doing Combat - Arts Administration Pedagogy at the Intersections of Management, Cultural Studies and Art as Research". Panel: Beyond

Administration: Experimental Pedagogies in Arts Management. Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) conference, Boston

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Fall 2010 Presenter (one of eight solicited key papers): “Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?” conference in the context of the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen; book publication to follow conference

Summer 2010 invited participant: HUMAK Helsinki Symposium 2010, Cultural Management and Pedagogy: Discourses and Practices; book publication to follow conference

Spring 2010 The Feminist Art Project, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, Ill.“Distributing Ourselves: New Media Art, Curating, Networks, and Collaborations”Facilitated by Hana Iverson and led by Beryl Graham of CRUMB with curatorial responses and

discussion from School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Jon Cates, Bruce Jenkins, Abina Manning, and Adelheid Mers.Spring 2009 Workshop leader: "Conversation Mapping and Collaborative Live Diagramming” Community

University Research Partnership conference: “Whose Show is it, anyway? Community - engaged performance and exhibition arts in the small city",

Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, CanadaSpring 2009 Presenter, with Nick Lowe: “Ethics of Responsibility – from individual burden to organizational

opportunity”, Panel: New Thoughts on Teaching Museum Ethics, chair, Janet Marstine, PhD, Seton Hall University, CAA conference, Los Angeles

Fall 2007 Panelist: “Mapping Culture and Social Change: Community University Research Partnership conference: “Mapping Culture and the Quality of Life in Small Cities”, in conjunction

with the “The Last Best West” conference, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, CanadaSpring 2007 Paper: “Foundations as Triage”; FATE Open Session, CAA Conference, New YorkSpring 2007 Session chair: “Assess, Situate, Disperse – Addressing Diversity of Artistic Approaches in

Foundations”; “Shift • Connect • Evolve”, FATE conference, Milwaukee, WIFall 2005 Presenter: “Cognitive and representational preference and the Early Adopters

Exhibition”, Art as Research: The Art of the Artist Statement Symposium,Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada

Spring 2004 Paper: “Introducing: Representational Preference” (paper accepted, unable to attend), Pixelraiders2, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England

Fall 2002 Discussant, session on giftedness and creativity, chair, Patricia D. Stokes, Barnard/Columbia University, NY, APA Convention, Chicago

Fall 2001 panelist: “Feminists Face the Arts”, led by Peg Brand and Eleanor Heartney, Ethics and the Arts conference, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Spring 01 Paper: “Applied Aesthetics”, Panel “If one is good, why not two? Chair, Laurie Palmer CAA Conference, Chicago

Fall 2000 paper: “Smart Thinking, Ugly Work - Formulating a Relativist Aesthetic from Personal Experience”; in conjunction with a workshop conducted by Elisabeth

Condon; Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NYSpring 2000 Paper: “A catholic Look at the Role of the Artist in the Age of Digital Technology”, Art, Media

and Not-Sense series; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH1999 artist talk, exhibition/performance Interlude, and discussion, “Art Now - Conference on Art

Audience Reaction”, SUNY New Paltz, NY1999 Formulated and presented artist and arts organizations fall-out group results, Inaugural Conference

on the Arts and Humanities in Public Life, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Visiting Artist/Panelist/Lecturer 2018 Visiting Lecturer, Bauhaus University Weimar, New Media Division, Weimar, Germany2018 Visiting Artist (Summer), SAIC at Homan Square, Chicago2017 Visiting Artist, Bauhaus University Weimar, New Media Division, Weimar, Germany2017 Visting Lecturer, Institut für Kulturmanagement und Kulturwissenschaft (IKM), University of

Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria2015 Presenter, The Face Field Project, Drone Fair. Experimental Station, Chicago, IL 2015 Art Work (Music) Project Presentation, with Research Fellow David Gabriele and sound artist

Anna Friz, Shapiro Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago9

2013 Diagrammatische Ansätze in der Kulturnutzer-Forschung. Projektseminar, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany

2012 Artist talk, VBKÖ (Verein Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich), Vienna, Austria2012 Visting Lecturer, Institut für Kulturmanagement und Kulturwissenschaft (IKM), University of

Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria2010 Fachhochschule Potsdam, Studiengang Kulturarbeit (Cultural Management Division)

Workshop (Blockseminar): "Critical Cultural Discourses - Diagrams and Discussions", Potsdam, Germany

2010 Thompson Rivers University, CURA Community Arts Think Tank; virtual presentation: “The Arts Organizations Diagram,” Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, CA

2010 panelist: threewallsSALON: Cartography 2.0 with Scott Carter, Adelheid Mers, Deb Sokolow and Sara Schnadt; coordinated by Ania Szremski, ThreeWalls, Chicago

2009 presenter: Art as Reseach Process Diagram, Stone Summer Theory Institute 2009, Focus on Practice, Performance Space, SAIC, Chicago

2008 Hochschule Zwickau, Department of Applied Art, Schneeberg, GermanyMapping the desired evolution of the department as it adds a master’s program; faculty workshop;

2008 University of Central Florida, OrlandoArtist talk, live mapping a virtual lecture with N. Katherine Hayles and mapping workshop with students in the Texts and Technology PhD program in the English Department;

2008 Bauhaus University Weimar, New Media Division, Weimar, Germany2007 Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany2007 Artists Connect lecture series, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

presentation, “Adelheid Mers connects with Carl Blechen”2007 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

juror, MFA exhibition2006 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

panelist; What happens when artists take over an institution?2005 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL2005 The Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

panelist, “The Art of the Artist Statement” 2005 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Artist talk, mapping workshop, critiques2005 Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany2004 Drake University, DesMoines, IA2004 “Imaging Politics”, Presidential Debates series

panel discussion, Drake University, DesMoines, IA 2003 DePaul University, Chicago, IL2003 Kunstschule Rudolstadt, Germany

lecture and workshop: “Vilém Flusser: The World as Surface”2002 Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

advisor to “curatorial projects” seminar 2002 Medienhochschule Köln, Germany2002 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany

presentation: “Integration of Theory and Practice in Higher Art Education”2002 Kunstschule Rudolstadt, Germany

lecture and workshop: “Fusion project”2001 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN1999 Artist Talk, Millikin University; Decatur, IL1998 Visiting lecturer, Alfred University, BAFA (integrated fine arts and humanities) program

Alfred, NY1998 Artist talk, Environmental Arts Program; Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland1998 visiting artist; Sculpture Department; UC Davis, Davis, CA1997 Artist talk, “Voices”, lecture series, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago

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Curating and Editing2012 curator, “Hairy Blob”, Hyde Park Art Center2009 editor, “Useful Pictures”, Whitewalls (distributed through University of Chicago Press)2005 curator; “Early Adopters”, 3Arts, Chicago, IL2003 curator; “Retrospectives”, 12 artists were invited to create mini-retrospectives on their entire

range of work, including administrative, educational and other endeavors; Gallery 312, Chicago, IL2002 organizer; “Fusion Project”, multi-media, transgressive exhibition project with colleagues and

students from the SAIC and U of C, L.I.P.A. Gallery, Chicago, IL2002 co-organizer, with Annie Morse; “48 hours of action”, an abandoned office building served as site

for the creation of videos, with Dorman+Torluemke, Hammond, IN2001 co-curator and contributing artist; “Collaborative Fusion”, organized with Elisabeth Condon,

transgressive/cooperative exhibition project with 14 invited artists and their guests, with extensive website; 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, with a mirror project connected via web

with Shuko Wada at Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan2001 organizer and juror; “Face Off”, an exhibition juxtaposing formal and relational artwork,

Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL1999 Co-curator and contributing artist; Millennium Fusion Project, organized with Mark Genrich and Shuko

Wada, a 2 month, collaborative, light, sound and sculpture installation, a snowball project in 3 phases with 39 invited artists, A.R.C. Gallery, Raw Space, Chicago, IL1997 co-curator, with Jackie Terrassa; “Present”, an exhibition of emerging visual artists and

composers who make artwork that subtly provokes and invites audience interaction; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Supervising Student Curating and Editing2014 "Media Futures", with Shawn Decker, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC2013 Useful Pictures at the Evanston Art Center; Diagrams generated through community-based interviews, with

students of the Arts Administration and Policy program at SAIC; exhibition and public conversations; Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

2009 "Object Symposium", (Seminar: MA/MFA collaborations), with Dan Devening, St. Paul’s Cultural Center, Chicago

since 2009 "Emerge", instated the journal, advises and selects editors for Arts Administration and Policy online publication. Previous managing editors include Dorota Biczel and Ania Szremski, Zoe Goldman,

Asha Iman Veal, and Libia Bianibi.2007 "Forks, Tables, Napkins", (Seminar: Diagrams in Art and Activism), Gallery 2 and Joan Flasch Artist Book

Library Display, SAIC

Published Diagrams and Writing "The Gap begets Two-space: On the practice of Lou Mallozzi", Chicago Artist Writers, March 12, 2018https://chicagoartistwriters.com/the-gap-begets-two-space-on-the-practice-of-lou-mallozzi/

"Artists’ perspectives on grant writing, summed up in a diagram", in: Issue: "Einreichen", Esther Strauss, Matthias Schmidt, Edts., Triedere Magazine, Sonderzahl Verlag, Wien, 2018

"Thought Catchers: An Artist Talk", in: Ingrisch, Doris et al, Edts., Wissenskulturen im Dialog. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2017

"The Braid Diagram and A Critique Template: modeling studio critique as process in support of articulating evolving artistic practices in context". in: Richard Jochum, ed.: Conference Proceedings, Art School Critique 2.0, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017

"Diskussionsmatrix zur Kufsteiner Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Kulturmanagement, 2014"; Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement 2015 (1), 109.

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"Wissenskulturen im Dialog", with Doris Ingrisch, in: Ed.: Werner Haslitschka, Performing Translation - Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst, Pädagogik und Wissenschaft. Löcker, Wien, 2014.

"Flexible Artworlds", in: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? New Star Books, Canada, 2014

Adapting Techniques of Studio Critique for Arts Management Pedagogy, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. Special Issue on Pedagogy. June 2013

"Reading Vilém Flusser in North America: Self-made, Do-it-yourself and Doing-it-together", Temporary Art Review, on-line journal, April 2013

Le Journal #3 de la Triennale, A visual summary of "An old imaginative and new strategic geographies", a conversation between Zoran Erić and Juan A. Gaitan, April 2012

“Diskurs Matrix”, a diagrammatic summary and assessment of the 2011 annual conference of theFachverband Kulturmanagement in Basel, Switzerland. in: Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Karen van den Berg,Steffen Höhne, Rolf Keller, Birgit Mandel, Martin Tröndle, Tasos Zembylas (Edts.) Jahrbuch 2011 - FokusKulturpolitik, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2012

"Reading Massumi 2002, 2011", with Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit, Proximities, Winter 2012

"Transfer Diskurse – Einige relevante Künstlerpositionen. Kultur- und Kreativindustrie. Kreativität/Innovation. Ästhetik. Diagrammatik", in "Artistic Research als ästhetische Wissenschaft. Zur transdisziplinären Hybridisierung von Wissenschaft und Kunst", transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2011

“Responsibility to”, September 2009, Drain Magazine, Issue 12. “The value of didactic art and the gift economy—from object ownership to object affiliation”, Art21 Blog, July 6, 2009

“Interview with Jan Kaila and Jan-Erik Andersson, Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland”, in “Bootprint”, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2009

“Diagram for an exhibition: Spiegelbild”, Lido, Magazin von KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, issue 03/08, August 2008

“Art as Research”, diagram and lecture (on DVD), “Open Letter”, Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Artists' Statements & the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, Thirteenth Series, No. 4: Fall 2007

“Diagram after Duchamp’s lecture The Creative Act”, in: Sketches: Organizing Arts, Elizabeth Chodos and Kerry Schneider , Edts.; Green Lantern Press; May 5, 2007

“Crisis of Linearity”, translation of a lecture by Vilém Flusser and “Stalking the Continuum”, essay and diagram, in “Bootprint”, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1March 2007

"Brain Wave: A Sketch”, in: The Feminist Art Project, M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online #4: Feminist Art: A Reassessment, edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor. February 2007

“Adelheid Mers on Vilém Flusser”, luckypix blog, http://www.luckypix.com/blogger/2006_09_01_archive.html, October 2006

“World of Art”, and “Diagram after Lakoff”, in Diagram 5.1, 2005

Scale, Volume 01, Issue 8+9: Edited by Joel Swanson, Sept. 2004, select files: MP1.pdf, MP2.pdf, MP3.pd“ Diagrams”

“Quarter After Eight”, Volume 8, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Spring 2002

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“Applied Aesthetics” interactive CD-rom, “Publication with No Name”, Volume 2, Kopenhagen, Denmark, Fall 2001

“A Collaborative Fusion”, with Elisabeth Condon, NYArts Magazine, September 2001

“Present”, essay, with Jacqueline Terrassa, accompanying the exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, 1997

Bibliography Kee, Jacelyn; Interview with Adelheid Mers. Art Research at SAIC. SAIC Press, 2015Grabner, Michelle, “The People’s Palace,” Art in America, October 2014Blumenreich, Ulrike; Dispositive der Kulturfinanzierung. Ein Rückblick auf die 8. Jahrestagung des Fachverbandes Kulturmanagement. Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen • Nr. 144 • I/2014Kotretsos, Georgia; Inside the Artist's Studio. Art21 Blog. February 2013Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit; book chapter on A. Mers, Ward Shelley and Jeremy Deller; in Die Kunst der Diagrammatik, transcript Verlag, 2012Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit; book chapter on A. Mers, Ward Shelley and Jeremy Deller; in Susanne Leeb, ed.; “Diagramme in der Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts”, b_books, Berlin, 2011 Fred Camper, “ADELHEID MERS”, in: “Response: Art and the Art of Criticism”, catalog, I space, April 2009Nicholas Frank, Picture of A Picture, INOVA cataposter, April 2008Jessica Lee Cochran, Review of INOVA mapping project, Proximities, April 2008Kari Lydersen, “Picturing the World, Around Us”, Washington Post, Sunday, January 6, 2008Alan Artner, “Art, cartography meet at juncture where philosophical issues reside”, Chicago Tribune, October 28, 2007Susan Snodgrass, “Window of opportunity: the recent opening of the Hyde Park Art Center in new quarters provides Chicago with a chance, rare in any art community, to rethink the overall ecology of its art institutions and their missions”, Art in America, January 2007Jeff Huebner et al, “Truth and Consequences”, Public Art Review, Fall/Winter 2006Alan Artner, Images Extract Visions from the Commonplace, Chicago Tribune, October 21, 2005Fred Camper, Critic’s Choice, Chicago Reader, September 2004Gerhard Charles Rump, Wetterfeste Zeichnungen bei Frühsorge, Die Welt, July 2004kbm, Spielanleitung, Tip Berlin, July 2004Fred Camper; lecture/presentation on Adelheid Mers at the Chicago Art Fair, 2002Sabine Bujack-Biedermann, “Über die Geschichte einer Idee in der Alten Wache”, Ostthüringer Zeitung, 15. January 2002Victor M. Cassidy, “Prairie Smoke”, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/cassidy/cassidy7-20-00.asp, July 2000Cindy Loehr, “Site Works”, New Art Examiner, July/August 2000 Joel Baxter, “Blink: Interventions in the Salon”, New Art Examiner, April 2000 Ann Wiens, “The Millennium Fusion Project”, New City, Jan. 6, 2000 Julie Charmelo and Brian Ritchard, “Blink - interventions in the Salon”, Catalog, January 2000Kathi Norklun, “Is it art if no one sees it?” Woodstock Times, Sept. 30, 1999Michael Bulka, “Chicago on View”, New Art Examiner, May 1999Matt Kelley, “Arts &Laughs”, The Daily Northwestern, May 7, 1999Fred Camper, “Spring Fever”, The Reader, February 12, 1999Michael Bulka, “Adelheid Mers at Tough Gallery”, New Art Examiner, February 1999Jeff Huebner, “Public Display: designing a disturbance”, The Reader, May 22, 1998Susan Snodgrass, “Letter from Chicago”, C Magazine , Nov 1997-Jan 1998Cara Glatt, “Exploring the Terrain of Interaction”, Hyde Park Herald, July 12,1997Fred Camper, “Come out and play”, The Reader, July 4, 1997Jeff Huebner, “On Exhibit: modern art on holy ground”, The Reader, May 22, 1997Richard Vine, “Where the Wild Things Were”, Art in America, May 1997“Saldo”, Alumni Exhibition Project, Catalog, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1997Fred Camper, “A Hairy Who’s Who”, The Reader, Jan.10, 1997Lynne Warren, “Art in Chicago 1945-1995”, Catalog, MCA, Chicago, 1996Jeff Huebner, “The In Crowd”, The Reader, Nov.1, 19961996, Alan Artner, “Mers offers a pleasing mix of materials”, Chicago Tribune, Oct.10, 1996

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Jennifer Footlik, “A gutsy exhibition...”, Chicago Social, Oct. 1996Fred Camper, “Patterns of Life”, The Reader, Sept. 27, 1996Jeff Huebner, “Schwartz’s Folly”, The Reader, July 26, 1996Kathryn Hixson, “Clarity”, New Art Examiner, May 96Fred Camper, “Focus on the Invisible”, The Reader, April 5, 1996Kathryn Hixson,“Plane Speak”, New Art Examiner, March 1996Grant Samuelsen, “Clarity”, Exhibition Essay, March 1996Alan Artner, “New Planes”, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 25, 1996Mitchell Kane, “The Younger they are”, New Art Examiner, May 1995David McCracken, “N.A.M.E. Show picks up slack”, Chicago Tribune May 13,1994Elisabeth Condon, “Communion”, New Art Examiner, March 1994Kathryn Hixson, “Guess Game”, Flash Art, March/April 1992Mitchell Stevens, “Floored”, New Art Examiner, Nov. 1992Michael Bulka, “Beyond the comfort Zone”, New Art Examiner, Dec. 1992

Awards and Nominations2019 Erasmus Project Grant, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany2018 AR-Pilot: Artistic Research, MDW/Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria2018 Erasmus Project Grant, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany2018 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2018 Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council2016 Faculty Enrichment Grant (Team Teaching), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2015 Individual Artist Project Grant, DCASE, Chicago2014 Finalist, Google DevArt Competition, The Face Field Project, with Robert Woodley2013 Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council2013 Faculty Enrichment Grant (Team Teaching), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2012 Art Work (Music), Project Funding, IKM/UWM, Vienna, Austria2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

(co-applicant) "Artist Statements: Making Interdisciplinary Inquiry Visible"Funding Period 2010 - 2013

2010 Nominee, MCIC (Metro Chicago Information Center) 20th Anniversary/Data Innovation Awards 2010

2010 Faculty Enrichment Grant (Project Support), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2008 Faculty Enrichment Grant (Team Teaching), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2008 Nominee, Richard Driehaus Foundation2007 Nominee, Richard Driehaus Foundation2007 Faculty of the Year Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2007 Chairman’s Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2005 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council2005 Faculty Enrichment Grant, (Project Support), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2004 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council2003 Faculty Enrichment Grant, (Project Support), School of the Art Institute of Chicago2003 City of Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Program Grant2001 Faculty Enrichment Grant, (Project Support), School of the Art Institute of Chicago1995 Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Artist Fellowship1995 City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Artists International Program Grant1994 City of Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Program Grant1993 City of Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Program Grant1989 Goethe Institut, Chicago1988 Award of the German Academic Exchange Service, (DAAD) Bonn1988 Award of the British Council, London, Cologne

Affiliations/Service2016 Juror, Rauschenberg Foundation, Artist as Activist Fellowship 

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2015 Juror, NEA Visual Arts Panel2015 Art Advisory Panel, Loop Link BRT, DCASE since 2015 Editorial board, Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement/Journal of Cultural Management,

Fachverband Kulturmanagement, Weimar, Germanysince 2011 Art Tablesince 2010 New Media Caucus 2009 -2012 Field Editor for Books and Related Media on Arts Administration and

Museum Studies, caa.reviewssince 2008 Fachverband Kulturmanagement, Weimar, Germanysince 2008 Editorial board, Small Cities Imprint, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canadasince 2008 Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE)2007/8 Curatorial advisory board, ThreeWalls Solo, Chicago, ILsince 2006 Research associate, CURA (Community University Research Alliance), Thompson Rivers

University, Kamloops, BC, Canada2000 - 2005 Curatorial advisory board, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL99/00 Public Art Advisory Panel/Library Project, City of Chicago Percent for Art Programsince 1999 College Art Association (CAA)1995 - 2010 Editorial board, Whitewalls, a journal of language and art

Teaching 2018/19 Visiting Lecturer, Media Environments, Block Seminar: Performative Diagrammatics. Bauhaus

University Weimar, Germany

Visiting Lecturer, Arts and Cultural Management Master (online), Focus Module: Theories of Art Production and Organizations, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg/Goethe Institut, Germany

2007 - present Associate Professor, Arts Administration and Policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2011/12, 2013 - 17 Chair, Arts Administration and Policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago1996 - 2007 Lecturer, Foundations, Sculpture, Art History, Visual and Critical Studies, Arts Administration

and Policy, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoFall 01, Spring 02 Visiting Lecturer, University of ChicagoWinter, Spring 99 Visiting Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, ILFall 97, Spring 98 Visiting Professor, Illinois State University, Normal, IL1994 - 1997 Lecturer, American Academy of Art, Chicago

Education1988/89 University of Chicago

student at large, Graduate School, Committee on the Visual Arts, in association with a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

1986 MFA, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germanystudied with Tony Cragg, Klaus Rinke, Günther UeckerAdditional course work: University of Düsseldorf (German Literature), University of Cologne

(German Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy), Germany

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