Below you will find the range of topics I have developed lectures or workshops to address, as well as a listing of places in which they have occurred. This listing should reveal an intention to be public and educational with ideas I find important, as well as demonstrate the need I have to work through those ideas in a social manner. For me it is not possible to resolve any of the most pressing and challenging questions or ideas without demonstrating and discussing them in these public and social environments. As you can see, the contexts range from high school classrooms, to university lecture halls, to informal activist spaces and art galleries. Please get in touch if you are interested in having me present any versions of the lectures/workshops listed below. tucker.daniel [AT] gmail.com
On a panel in Granada, Spain (2009) for Exposición TRANSDUCTORES. Pedagogías colectivas y políticas espaciales, at Centro José Guerrero
Lectures and Workshops
- “Town Hall Talks: 5Cities/5questions” Surveying Critical Art Today
- “Critical Urbanism: Cities And Art from Documentary to Psychogeography” (featuring Jem Cohen, Neighborhood Story Project and Center for Urban Pedagogy)
- AREA Chicago as Urban Research (focused on social sciences students)
- “Inheriting the Grid: AREA Chicago and investigating the City”
- AREA Chicago: What to do with a weak Left
- AREA Chicago: Networking and Capacity Building in informal spheres
- AREA Chicago: Portrait of a City (focused on art or Documentary students)
- “Trashing the Neoliberal City : Autonomous Cultural Responses to Chicago 2000-2005″
- City As University: Informal Education and Social Movements
- “Solidarities: The Things We Mean and Want When We Say We”
- “Counter Territories: On the Intersections of Mapping and Social Movements”
- “Groups/Spaces/Surveying critical and collaborative art in Chicago”
- “Not For Sale! Interventions in Neoliberal Urbanism and Affordable housing crisis”
- “Distro: Surveying experiments in distribution and curatorial practice”
- “Another Infrastructure: Surveying models of self-organized networks”
- “Getting Organized: Group Process and Organizational Structure”
- Video Program: Unhoused: Recent Documentary Work on Homelessness and displacement in the Americas; Public/Private Parties: Video works about the politics of public space
- Tours: Walking and Bus trips through Chicago and other potential sites.
Past Workshops and Public Talks
2010
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Lecturer “3 Documentaries” at Bluestockings Books [New York City]
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Guest Lecturer “Experimental Geography” ds4si.org and Groundswell [Boston, MA]
- Guest Teacher “Critical Culture in Chicago 2000-2010″ Co-Prosperity School [Chicago, IL]
- “Community Supported Publishing” with Left Turn, AK Press, Charles H. Kerr Publishing at US Social Forum [Detroit, MI]
- Seminar Leader/Lecturer “Public Space” ARThotel [Chisinau, Moldova]
- Guest Lecturer “Art Against Social Control” at Dominican University [Forest Park, IL]
- Workshop leader of writing classes on the theme of urban environments for Neighborhood Writing Alliance [Chicago]
- Moderator for public panel discussion of “DIRT: Land/Use” project by Deke Weaver at Links Hall [Chicago]
2009
- Panelist “The work of AREA Chicago” at Transductores conference [Granada, Spain]
- Moderator “Revolt On Goose Island” Labor and the Economic Crisis at Chicago Cultural Center [Chicago, IL] (Audio here)
- Panelist/Participant “Media Justice” Discussion in ARC09 at Little Village High School [Chicago IL]
- Panelist “Art and Critique in the Obama Climate” part of CONVERGE Curators Forum at Art Chicago [Chicago IL]
- Presenter “AREA Chicago” at City From Below conference [Baltimore, MD]
- Visiting Speaker, “We Are Here: Maps Archive” at Chicago State University [Chicago, IL]
- Panelist “Relocating Art and Its Public” College Art Association Annual Conference [Los Angeles, CA]
- Visiting Artist, California College of Art [San Francisco, CA]
- Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute [San Francisco, CA]
- Speaker “We Are Here: Maps Archive” to release Experimental Geography book at Get Lost Travel Books [San Francisco, CA]
- Visiting Artist, Laurie Palmer’s Art/Geography class at School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Chicago, IL]
2008
- Visiting Artist “Inheriting the Grid: AREA Chicago and investigating the City” at John Ploof’s School of the Art Institute Education class [Chicago, IL]
- Moderator “I Shall Create” Panel at Hyde Park Art Center. Organized by Public Square and Neighborhood Writing Alliance, featuring Chicago artists Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz, and Dan S. Wang. Listen to audio from Chicago Public Radio [Chicago, IL]
- Visiting Artist “Town Hall Talks” Ellen Rothenberg’s Art Institute Writing Class [Chicago, IL]
- Visiting Artist “Getting To Know Your City” at Marianne Fairbank’s Art Institute Class [Chicago, IL]
- Facilitator/Co-Organizer (with Nato Thompson) “Town Hall Meetings” in Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, LA, and New Orleans for Creative Time, Inc. [New York City]
- Panelist “An Atlas of Radical Cartography” at Redhouse Gallery [Syracuse, NY]
- Presenter “What We Know of Our Past and Demand of Our Future” Seminar organized by LetsRemakeTheWorld at Mess Hall [Chicago, IL]
2007
- Presenter “AREA Chicago” Fereshteh Toosi’s Syracuse University writing class [Syracuse, NY]
- Participant/Presenter “Public Address” organized by the Danish public art organization Publik at 16 Beaver and Change You Want To See Gallery [New York City]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Marianne Fairbank’s SAIC Fiber Arts class [Chicago, IL]
- Moderator “Activating Audiences Through Research and Remembering” at NAMAC’s annual conference [Austin, TX]
- Presenter “AREA: Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago” Booksa Bookshop [Zagreb, Croatia]
- Lecturer “Counter Territories” in William Andersen’s art history class and Nicolas Lampert’s public art class University of Wisconsin [Milwaukee, WI]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Michael Rakowitz’s Northwestern University art class [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Onepot Dinner Discussions at Western Bridge [Seattle, WA]
- Presenter “AREA Chicago: Inheriting the Grid” This Is Forever Dinner Discussions [NYC]
- Presenter “AREA Chicago: Inheriting the Grid” UCLA’s Planning Department “Spatial Justice” Lecture Series [Los Angeles, CA]
2006
- Presenter/Participant “Continental Drift” seminar at 16Beaver Group [New York City]
- Presenter “Curatorial Practices” University of Illinois Chicago – Arts Education [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” DePaul University’s Visual Art Education Program [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Loyola University [Chicago, IL]
- Workshop Leader “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Art Instiute of Chicago Performance Department [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Resistant Practices: Countering the Neoliberal City through Local Initiatives” with the Journal of Ordinary Thought and AREA Chicago Art/Education/Activism and Reading Chicago at The Planners Network Conference, University of Illinois Chicago [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Counter Territories” in Sarah Kanouse’s On and Off The Map Seminar at Southern Illinois University [Carbondale, IL]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City : Autonomous Cultural Responses to Chicago 2000-2005″ YNKB/Outer Nørrebro Culture Bureau [Copenhagen, Denmark]
- Presenter “Producing Counter Territories: The Intersections of Mapping and Resistance Practices” with Emily Forman, Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias at the National Conference on Organized Resistance/American University [Washington, DC]
2005
- Presenter RE-Activism “New Media Artist as Urban Planner [Budapest, Hungary]
- Presenter “Counter Productive Industries” Artivistic Festival [Montreal, Canada]
- Participant “Continental Drift” seminar at 16Beaver Group [New York City]
2004
- Facilitator “Alternative Cultural Spaces” Polvo Gallery [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Art of Crossing the Street” School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Chicago, IL]
- Panel Moderator “Cultural Interference” Version>04 Festival [Chicago, IL]
- Introducer “D.I.Y. Geo-Politics” Brian Holmes Lecture The Art Institute [Chicago, IL]
2003
- Presenter Cellspace [San Francisco, CA]
- Presenter Akpress [Oakland, CA]
- Presenter C-level [Los Angeles, CA]
- Presenter “Slide Circle Seminars” Apt.1R Gallery [Chicago, IL]
2002
- Presenter School of the Art Institute of Chicago class of Gregory Sholette [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Que Se Vayan Todos” Argentina, Select Media Festival [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Que Se Vayan Todos , La Decima Musa [Chicago, IL]
- Facilitator “Tactical Media discussion/silk-screening workshop”, A-Zone [Chicago, IL]
