Heritage Council of Ireland, National Strategic Research Programme
Curator/Coordinator, Placing Voices - Voicing Places: Dublin's Contemporary Past & The Home Project

View the catalogue here.

Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities exhibition series, on the occassion of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, University College Dublin
Director & Curator

Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin
Post-Doctoral Fellow

University of Notre Dame, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
NEH Keough Fellow

Digital Image Project, Trinity College Dublin, School of Histories and Humanities
Research Associate

Trinity College Dublin, Department of History
Instructor - 'Learning for Historians: Research skills for the informaiton age'

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Installer & Invigilator

Trinity College Students Union Bookshop
Manager

Trinity College, University of Dublin
Subjects: Anthropology, applied psychoanalysis & intellectual history
Title: Materialising Ireland: Archaeology, Identity & Modernity in Ireland [Read an abstract here.]
External Examiner: Prof. Michael Shanks, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Internal Examiner: Dr Michael Ryan, Director, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland

Ph.D. - Trinity College, University of Dublin [thesis abstract available here]
Subjects: Anthropology, applied psychoanalysis & intellectual history - Supervisor: Prof. Terence Barry

B.A. (Hons) - Trinity College, University of Dublin
Subjects: Ancient History & Archaeology / Biblical Studies & Theology - Supervisor: Dr Hazel Dodge

Brown University, John Nicholas Brown Center & Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
MA Course: 'Things: The material worlds of Humanity'

Brown University, John Nicholas Brown Center
MA Course: 'Designing heritages: From archaeological sensibilities to relational heritages'

Brown University, John Nicholas Brown Center Summer Residency Program - 4 - 14 June
Course Director: 'West Offaly Heritage: New media, new audiences'

University College Dublin, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies Summer School - 14 - 23 June
Course Director: 'Cultural Heritage and Social Change in Ireland: Global answer to local questions'

University College Dublin, School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
- MA course in Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Seminar: 'Challenges of contemporary curation'

University of Notre Dame, Keough-Naughton Summer School
Seminar: 'Heritage and Cultural Diversity: The constituteion of comtemporary Irish society'

University College Dublin, School of Archaeology - Art and Archaeology - Undergraduate course
Seminar: 'Art and art(e)facts: Mediation, materials and mentalities in Ireland'

University College Dublin, School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
- MA course in Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Seminar: 'The constitution of heritage in Ireland'

University of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology - Archaeology of Ireland - Undergraduate course
Seminar & workshop: 'Tara: Landscapes, heritage and identities' & 'Heritage management and interpretation'

Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Access Programme
Lecture: 'Materialsing Ireland:The role of archaeology in culutral & political developments of 19th century Ireland'

Trinity College Dublin, Civil Engineering Department - Design & the Built Environment - Undergraduate course
Lecture: 'Design and the built environment: Urban archaeology in Dublin, Ireland'

Trinity College Dublin, Department of History
Undergraduate course: 'Learning for Historians: Research skills for the information age'

Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Access Programme
Lecture: 'Constructing Identities: Archaeology, artefacts and monuments'

EU Pathways to the Cultural Landscape Project – Historic Landscape Characterisation Archaeologist
Focus: Digitisation and analysis of ordnance survey maps of Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Publication: Project report for the Heritage Council of Ireland

Grant from Culture Ireland
For: Artist residency and public sculptur commisison for artist Dennis McNulty

Grant from the Office of International Affairs, Brown University
For: The International Graduate Colloquium 'The Archive and the Ephemeral' organised with Hollis Mickey

Grant from the Creative Arts Council, Brown University
For: Artist residency and public sculptur commisison for artist Dennis McNulty

Grant from the Creative Arts Council, Brown University
For: 'The Archive and the Ephemeral' conversations with artists Corin Hewitt, Miriam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh with Rebecca Schneider and Hollis Mickey

Grant from the Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
For: 'Dynamic Representations' - a project to develop a new digital application for manipulating and mediating digital image collections

Grant from Offaly County Council via the Heritage Council of Ireland
For: 'West Offaly Heritage: New media, new audiences' with John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University

Grant from Culture Ireland
For: 'Roadscore' by Fiona Hallinan at the John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University

Commissions Grant from the Arts Council of Ireland
For: 'The You That Is In It' by Fiona Hallinan at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Grant from University College Dublin Seed Funding Programme
For: Sixth World Archaeological Congress Fringe & Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities

Grant from University of Notre Dame Office of Research
For: Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities

Grant from Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame
For: Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities

Grant from Foras na Gaeilge
For: Sixth World Archaeological Congress Fringe & Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities

Grant from Trinity College Research Capacity Building Scheme
For: Digital Image Project

Grant from Trinity College Provost's Fund for the Visual Arts
For: 'Reflexive Representations' Exhibitions

Section Editor for 'Cultural Heritage Management' in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.

Entries for 'Cultural Creativity & 'Archaeological Influences in Art' in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Unquiet Pasts: Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity, Ashgate, Aldershot. (edited with Stephanie Koerner)

'Unfinished Homes' in Home, This Is It Gallery, Dublin.

Read it here.

'The limits of Europe' in A. Kakulya & Y. Mingard East of a New Eden, Lars Muller Publishers, Baden.

Read it here.

‘Heritage, identity and roots: A critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity' in G. Smith, P. Messenger & H. Soderland (eds.) Heritage Values, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.

Read it here.

‘"Can you see me now?": Archaeological sensibility breaking the "fourth wall" of the analog:digital divide' in V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.) Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 118-46.

Read it here.
Read the intervention debrief here.

'Arteology', Interview in Graphic Archaeology, Summer 2009, pp. 12-15.

Read it here.

'Iman: Finding faith in Ireland' in Iman: Photographs by Noel Bowler, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office and Zero-G.

Read it here.

View the catalogue here.

'The camera obscura as processual space' in Camera Obscura, National College of Art and Design Interim Exhibition Catalogue.

Read it here.

'Art & Archaeology' in P. Cooke, A. Feldman, C. O'Donnell, T. O'Keeffe, S. Tuck, I. Russell and P. Ryan Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Archaeology in Inner-Cty Dublin: Spatialitiy, Materiality and Identity-Formation among Dublin's Working Class and Immigrant Communities, Hertiage Council of Ireland INSTAR Report.

Read it here

Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Archaeology in Inner-Cty Dublin: Spatialitiy, Materiality and Identity-Formation among Dublin's Working Class and Immigrant Communities, Hertiage Council of Ireland INSTAR Report. (With Pat Cooke, Alice Feldman, Cormac O'Donnell, Tadhg O'Keeffe, Sarah Tuck and Patrick Ryan)

Read it here

'Arts funding a cheap and easy target' in The Sunday Tribune 14 December (with Brid Cranitch and Cindy Cummings)

Read it here

Art, archaeology & the contemporary' as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal.

Listen here.
Read it here.

'Archaeoclash: Mediating art and archaeology' as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal. (with Andrew Cochrane)

Listen here.
Read it here.

'Art, archaeology & the contemporary: The Abhar agus Meon exhibitions', Museum Ireland, Vol. 18 (2008), pp. 85-105.

Read it here.

Chronoscope, Ábhar agus Meon, Green On Red Gallery, Newman House, UCD & Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin.

Read it here. View the installations here.

'Estranged Lands: The arts of the Peatlands' in Peatlands, Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora Offaly.

Read it here.

'Estranged Lands: The art of the Peatlands' in Sceal na Mona, Summer.

Read it here.

'Tara: Re-routing the Debate' in The Irish Times, 28 July (with Pat Cooke and Gabriel Cooney)

Read it here.

‘Objects and Agency: Some Obstacles and Opportunities of Modernity’, Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture, Journal of Iberian Archaeology(vols. 9/10), V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.), 71-87.

Read it here. View the accompanying photo-essay here.

‘Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 17(1), 3-19. (with Andrew Cochrane)

Read it here.

Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer-Kluwer, New York.

Read excerpts and reviews here.

‘Freud and Volkan: Psychoanalysis, Group Identities and Archaeology,' Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 307, 185-95.

Read it here.

'Now, I can see you. The politics of presence and an intervention by Ian Russell into 'Can you see me now?' by Blast Theory and the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham’, Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford Humanities Lab
<http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/NewMedia/278>.

'Mynydd Epynt: A serendipitous encourter from Ireland', Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford Humanities Lab
<http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/NewMedia/290>.

'Association of Social Anthropologists 2007: A Highlight ’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2007/05/association_of_social_anthropo.html>.

‘TAG 2006: A Highlight’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2007/03/tag_2006_a_highlight.html>.

‘CHAT 2006: Some Highlights’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2006/12/chat_2006_some_highlights.html>.

‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2006/11/reflexive_representations_the.html>.

‘Reflexive Representations [1]: South Metope XXVII’, Archaeography (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://archaeography.com/photoblog/archives/2006/11/reflexive_representations_1_so.shtml>.

‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’, European Journal of Archaeology (with Andrew Cochrane)
<http://eja.e-a-a.org/2006/09/16/eaa-exhibition-reflexive-representations>.

Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal.

Unquiet Pasts: Theoretical perspectives on archaeology and cultural heritage (forthcoming). (with Stephanie Koerner)

Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer-Kluwer, New York.

Icarus: Literary and Arts Journal, Dublin University Publications.

University of Southampton - Visualisation in Archaeology Project - 21-22 October
Title: 'Techniques of visual communication in pre & post-disciplinary archaeology'

A Better World by Design '10 - 2 October
Title: 'Urban arts & activism'

Watch my introduction video here.

Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World - 30 September
Title: 'The ethics of oblivion: Against archaeology's hypermodern heritage'

Rhode Island School of Design - 25 March
Title: 'World of Dust' a conversation with artist Nigel Rolfe

UMass, Amherst - Center for Heritage & Society - 22 March
Title: 'Curating relational heritages: Some lessons from inner-city Dublin'

Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World - 25 February
Title: 'Art to archaology [] archaeology to art'

Brown University, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage - 3 February
Title: 'Contemporary art and relational heritages'

Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Waterford - 14 November
Talk for the opening of 'Past:Present - Touch:Don't Touch' by Cordula Hansen

'Representing Climate Change: Ecology, media and the arts' - University of Cambridge, CRASSH - 15 October
Invited panelist

University of Notre Dame, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies - 1 February
Title: 'Mediating post-Hibernian archaeologies: Archaeology, humedia and undercutting the discourses of "material culture" in Ireland'

Stanford University, Archaeology Center - 23 January
Title: 'Deploying an archaeological sensibility: Preforming an interventionist manifesto'

University College Dublin, School of Archaeology - 22 November
Title: 'Art and art(e)facts: Mediation, materials and mentalities in Ireland'

Columbia University, Center for Archaeology - 1 November
Title: 'Humans, materials and media: Overcoming the modern invention of material culture'

Stanford University, Archaeology Center - 24 May
Title: 'Objects and Agency: Some Obstacles and Opportunities of Modernity'

Stanford University Humanities Lab, Critical Studies in New Media Group - Politics of Presence Colloquium, 23 May
Title: 'Archaeology and New Media: Some Interventions and Explorations'

Associacão Arqueológica do Algarve – Algarve, Portugal - September 12
Title: ‘The Archaeological Imagination: The Role of Archaeology in Social Imagination and Identity Construction’

Virginia Psychoanalytic Society – Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Title:‘Ireland on the Couch: An Applied Psychoanalysis of Ireland’s Symbolic Vernacular’

'The Arts and the Public' - New England American Studies Association Conference -1 October
'Time and Crime: Public art controversie as catalysts for conversations and the perils of permanence' with Janet Zweig

Theoretical Archaeology Group - Brown University - 30 April - 2 May
Title: Primetime: A discussion of clocks, rocks and the truth
Title: Vikings, Normans and Celts: A narrative of archaeology, politics and protests in Ireland

The Body as Site and Sign, Brown University- 30 April - 2 May
Title: From bodies to building blocks: A critical engagement with Antony Gormley's One & Other

'Tara: The Symposium' - School of Archaeology, UCD & John Hume Global Irish Institute - 24-6 October
Title: 'Tara': Deep maps and psychogeographies

European Association of Archaeologists - Italy - 19 September
Title: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin

'Visualising Antiquarianism in Ireland' - Humanitites Institute of Ireland, UCD - 11 September
Title: The art of unprofessional pasts: Relational aesthetics and contemporary antiquarianism

'Mobility and Creativity: Narrative, representation and performance' - University of Surrey - 3-4 July
Title: Curating collaborative heritages: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin

Theoretical Archaeology Group - New York, U.S.A.
Title: 'The Interventionist Manifesto: Mediating worlds' (with Andrew Cochrane)
Title: 'Undercutting the roots of the great divides' (with Andrew Cochrane)

American Conferece for Irish Studies - Davenport, IA, U.S.A.
Title: 'A heritage of constitutional racism: Heritage, archaeology and the making of an exclusive Ireland'

Theoretical Archaeology Group - York, U.K.
Title: 'L'Art du déplacement: Parkour & some physical re-engagements with archaeology' (with Andrew Cochrane)
Title: '"Now, I can see you.": Bringing an archaeological sensibility to bear on digital media through the politics of presence'

Heritage Values: The Past in Contemporary Society Workshop - Cumberland Island, Georgia, U.S.A.
Title: 'Heritage, identities and roots: A critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity'

Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture - Limerick, Ireland
Title: 'The Crisis of Representing Ireland: Arts and Art(e)facts'

American Conference of Irish Studies - New York, NY, U.S.A.
Title: ‘An Ireland against Archaeology: The Crisis of Archaeology, Heritage and Development in Ireland'

Theoretical Archaeology Group – Exeter, U.K.
Title: ‘Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto’ (Plenary Paper) (with Andrew Cochrane)
Title: ‘Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and the Politics of Preservation’
Title: ‘An Artefact as Agent?: Images, Imaginations and the Perception of the Past’

Contemporary Historical Archaeology in Theory – Bristol, U.K.
Title: ‘Visualizing Archaeologies: Reflexive Representations’ (with Andrew Cochrane)

New England American Conference of Irish Studies – Storrs, CT, U.S.A.
Title: ‘Art and Art(e)fact: The Crisis of (re)Presenting Ireland’

European Association of Archaeologists – Cracow, Poland
Title: ‘Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and Archaeological Epistemic Conflict’

Crosscurrents – Belfast, U.K.
Title: ‘Archaeology and Identity in Ireland: The Modern Romance’

National Gallery of Ireland – Dublin, Ireland
Title: ‘The Crisis of (re)Presenting Ireland’

European Association of Archaeologists – Cork, Ireland
Title: ‘Artefact and Image: Archaeology and the Crisis of (re)Presentation of the Past’

Theoretical Archaeology Group – Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Title: ‘Object Agency vs. Internalization: The Objects and Images of the Archaeological Imagination’
Title: 'Artefacts, Souvenirs and Images of the Past'

European Association of Archaeologists – Lyon, France
Title: ‘“The History of Ireland in Silver or Gold”: Souvenirs, Archaeology and Identity Consumption in Ireland’

Association of Young Irish Archaeologists – Dublin, Ireland
Title: ‘Vikings, Normans and Celts: The Archaeology, Politics and Protests of Wood Quay, Carrickmines and the Tara Motorway’

Theoretical Archaeology Group – Lampeter, Wales, U.K.
Title: ‘Archaeology after Freud: The Role of Archaeology in the Construction of Large Group Identity’

5^th World Archaeological Congress – Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Title: ‘Chosen Glories / Chosen Traumas: The Selection of an Archaeological Narrative in Ireland’
Title: ‘Archaeology after Freud: The Role of Archaeology in the Construction of Large Group Identity’

'The Archive and the Ephemeral' - Brown University, Creative Arts Council and Office of International Affairs Colloquium and curated conversations with artists Corin Hewitt, Miriam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh organised with Hollis Mickey and supported by Rebecca Schneider and Steve Lubar

Digital Lunches - Brown University - interdisciplinary colloquia series on digital humanities with faculty supported by the Center for Digital Scholarship, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage

'The Arts and the Public' - New England American Studies Association Conference -1 October
Session Organiser - 'Time and Crime: Public art controversie as catalysts for conversations and the perils of permanence' with Janet Zweig

Art in the Land - Sculpture in the Parklands, Co. Offaly - 18 September
Technical Coordinator

'Cultural Heritage and Social Change in Ireland: Global answer to local questions' - UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies Summer School - 14 - 23 June
Course Director

Theoretical Archaeology Group 2010, Brown University - 30 April - 2 May
Coordinator of TAG 2010 Arts Program

'Tara: The Symposium' - School of Archaeology, UCD & John Hume Global Irish Institute - 24-6 October
Organiser and Webmediator

'Visualising Antiquarianism in Ireland' - Humanitites Institute of Ireland, UCD - 11 September
Organiser

'Representing Climate Change: Ecology, media and the arts' - University of Cambridge, CRASSH - 15 October
Invited panelist

Sixth World Archaeological Congress, School of Archaeology , University College Dublin
Programme Committee Member
Theme Organiser: 'Archaeologies of Art'
Theme Organiser: 'Archaeological Theory? Legacies, burdens, futures'
Session Organiser: 'Excavating Francis Bacon's Studio'
Session Organiser: 'Ábhar agus Meon / Materials and Mentalities: The exhibition'

'Heritage Values: The Past in Contemporary Society' - Cumberland Island National Seashore, Southeast Archaeological Center, Hamline University, Nothern Land Use Research, Inc. & Statistical Research, Inc.
Invited workshop presenter

'Politics of Presence - The Colloquium' - Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford Humanities Lab, Metamedia in the Stanford Archaeology Center and The Presence Project
Invited colloquium presenter

8th Cambridge Heritage Seminar - University of Cambridge
Chair & Discussant: 'Cultural heritage and the politics of disaster'

Postgraduate Form in Byzantine Studies: Sailing to Byzantium – Trinity College Dublin
Chair: 'Archaeology and Art History'

Association of Social Anthropologists – London, U.K.
Session Organiser: ‘Modernising Archaeological Tourism: From Image Conflict to Archaeological Expressionism' (with Andrew Cochrane)

European Association of Archaeologists – Cracow, Poland
Session Chair: ‘The Unquiet Past: Cultural Heritage and the Uncertain Social Geography of Risks of Exposure to Ecological Hazards and Political Violence’

European Association of Archaeologists – Lyon, France
Session Organiser & Chair: ‘“A souvenir from...”: Tourism, Heritage Industries and the Development of Archaeology’

Association of Young Irish Archaeologists - Dublin, Ireland
Conference Organiser

Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: tbarry(at)tcd.ie

Department of Classics, Building 20, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-2080, U.S.A.
Email: mshanks(at)stanford.edu

Director, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: mryan(at)cbl.ie

School of Archaeology, UCD, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Email: gabriel.cooney(at)ucd.ie

School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Email: pat.cooke(at)ucd.ie

Senior Erik Erikson Scholar, Erikson Institute for Research and Education of the Austen Riggs Center, P O Box 962, Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962, U.S.A.
Email: vamik.volkan(at)austenriggs.net

'The Archive and the Ephemeral' conversations with artists Corin Hewitt, Miriam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh
Curator with Rebecca Schneider and Hollis Mickey
Creative Arts Council, Brown University

View the catalogue here.

Street Performance World Championship
Stage Manager

'The You That Is In It', Irish Museum of Modern Art, 30 June - 16 November 2008
Commissioning Curator, with Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections.
Artists: Fiona Hallinan and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

'Glass House Stone', Health Sciences Gallery, UCD - 30 June - 31 July 2008
Curator
Artists: Adam Burthom, Andrew Burton, Gerard Byrne, Fiona Coffey, Dorothy Cross, Tom Fitzgerald, Bárbara Fluxá, Mark Garry, Niamh Harte, Sean Hillen, Áine Ivers, Caroline McCarthy, Denis O'Connor, Andrew Parker and Aaron Watson.
To view a slideshow of the installations, please click here.

'Chronoscope', Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen's Green - 13 June - 2 July 2008
Curator, with Jerome O Drisceoil, Green On Red Gallery, and Ruth Ferguson, Newman House, UCD.
Artists: Alice Maher, Bea McMahon, Dennis McNulty, Paul Mosse, Niamh O'Malley and Nigel Rolfe.
To view a slideshow of the installations, please click here.

The Angel of History, The American Living Room Festival, Here Arts Center, New York
Dramaturge and Theoretical Consultant

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Installer, Invigilator & Guide

Crux Vocal Ensemble
Vocal performer

The Birth of Christ by Andrew T. Miller - Television Recording for PBS
Vocal performer

Anúna, Irish Vocal/Performance Group
Member & Performer
Facilitated and Performed on tours of Argentina, Belgium, Chile, England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, U.S.A., Wales
Albums featured on: Sensation (2006), Live at Annedal (2005)

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Dublin
Lay Clerk & Performer
Albums featured on: Meditations & Remembrances: Frances Pott (2006), Live at Chistchurch Volumes 1, 2 & 4 (2005-06)

Candide by Voltaire, The Performance Corporation, Dublin
Choir Member

Icarus: Literary & Arts Journal, Dublin
Editor-in-Chief

The Happy Prince, an opera by Gita Nasta - Conventico, Lagoa, Algarve, Portugal
Vocal performer (leading role)

Players' Theatre, Dublin - Improvisational Workshops
Director & Coordinator

exquisite things { from the Haffenreffer } - Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University
Curator - with the John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University
Online exhibition: http://www.exquisitethings.info

'The Archive and the Ephemeral' conversations with artists Corin Hewitt, Miriam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh
Curator with Rebecca Schneider and Hollis Mickey
Creative Arts Council, Brown University

'The You That Is In It', Irish Museum of Modern Art, 30 June - 16 November 2008
Commissioning Curator, with Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections.
Artists: Fiona Hallinan and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

'Glass House Stone', Health Sciences Gallery, UCD - 30 June - 31 July 2008
Curator
Artists: Adam Burthom, Andrew Burton, Gerard Byrne, Fiona Coffey, Dorothy Cross, Tom Fitzgerald, Bárbara Fluxá, Mark Garry, Niamh Harte, Sean Hillen, Áine Ivers, Caroline McCarthy, Denis O'Connor, Andrew Parker and Aaron Watson.
To view a slideshow of the installations, please click here.

'Chronoscope', Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen's Green - 13 June - 2 July 2008
Curator, with Jerome O Drisceoil, Green On Red Gallery, and Ruth Ferguson, Newman House, UCD.
Artists: Alice Maher, Bea McMahon, Dennis McNulty, Paul Mosse, Niamh O'Malley and Nigel Rolfe.

To read the exhibition catalgue, please click here.

To view a slideshow of the installations, please click here.

‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’
Artist and Coordinator, with Andrew Cochrane
Exhibited at: The World Art Forum, London, U.K., European Association of Archaeologists – Cracow, Poland Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory – Bristol, U.K. Theoretical Archaeology Group – Exeter, U.K., Sixth World Archaeological Congress - Dublin, Ireland.
Permanent displays at: Trinity College Dublin, Ironbridge Gorge Museum & Sculpture in the Parklands
To view the installations, please click here.

'The limits of Europe' in A. Kakulya & Y. Mingard East of a New Eden, Lars Muller Publishers, Baden.

Read it here.

'Unfinished Homes' in Home, This Is It Gallery, Dublin.

Read it here.

‘"Can you see me now?": Archaeological sensibility breaking the "fourth wall" of the analog:digital divide' in V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.) Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 118-46.

Read it here.
Read the intervention debrief here.

'Arteology', Interview in Graphic Archaeology, Summer 2009, pp. 12-15.

Read it here.

'Iman: Finding faith in Ireland' in Iman: Photographs by Noel Bowler, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office and Zero-G.

Read it here.

View the catalogue here.

'The camera obscura as processual space' in Camera Obscura, National College of Art and Design Interim Exhibition Catalogue.

Read it here.

'Arts funding a cheap and easy target' in The Sunday Tribune 14 December (with Brid Cranitch and Cindy Cummings)

Read it here

Art, archaeology & the contemporary' as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal.

Listen here.
Read it here.

'Archaeoclash: Mediating art and archaeology' as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal. (with Andrew Cochrane)

Listen here.
Read it here.

'Art, archaeology & the contemporary: The Abhar agus Meon exhibitions', Museum Ireland, Vol. 18 (2008), pp. 85-105.

Read it here.

Chronoscope, Ábhar agus Meon, Green On Red Gallery, Newman House, UCD & Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin.

Read it here. View the installations here.

'Estranged Lands: The arts of the Peatlands' in Peatlands, Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora Offaly.

Read it here.

‘Objects and Agency: Some Obstacles and Opportunities of Modernity’, Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture, Journal of Iberian Archaeology(vols. 9/10), V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.), 71-87.

Read it here. View the accompanying photo-essay here.

‘Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 17(1), 3-19. (with Andrew Cochrane)

Read it here.

Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer-Kluwer, New York.

Read excerpts and reviews here.

University of Southampton - Visualisation in Archaeology Project - 21-22 October
Title: 'Techniques of visual communication in pre & post-disciplinary archaeology'

A Better World by Design '10 - 2 October
Title: 'Urban arts & activism'

Watch my introduction video here.

The Body as Site and Sign, Brown University- 30 April - 2 May
Title: From bodies to building blocks: A critical engagement with Antony Gormley's One & Other

Rhode Island School of Design - 25 March
Title: 'World of Dust' a conversation with artist Nigel Rolfe

Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World - 25 February
Title: 'Art to archaology [] archaeology to art'

Brown University, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage - 3 February
Title: 'Contemporary art and relational heritages'

University College Dublin, School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
- MA course in Arts Management and Cultural Policy
Seminar: 'Challenges of contemporary curation'

'Visualising Antiquarianism in Ireland' - Humanitites Institute of Ireland, UCD - 11 September
Title: The art of unprofessional pasts: Relational aesthetics and contemporary antiquarianism

'Mobility and Creativity: Narrative, representation and performance' - University of Surrey - 3-4 July
Title: Curating collaborative heritages: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin

Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Waterford - 14 November
Talk for the opening of 'Past:Present - Touch:Don't Touch' by Cordula Hansen

'Representing Climate Change: Ecology, media and the arts' - University of Cambridge, CRASSH - 15 October
Invited panelist

Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture - Limerick, Ireland
Title: 'The Crisis of Representing Ireland: Arts and Art(e)facts'

National Gallery of Ireland – Dublin, Ireland
Title: ‘The Crisis of (re)Presenting Ireland’