Coroflot

Resume

EXPERIENCE

National College of Art and Design Postgraduate Interim Exhibition
December 2008-Present
Curator

Heritage Council of Ireland National Strategic Research Programme
(www.projecthumedia.com/ucdcp.html)
August 2008-Present
Curator/Coordinator – Placing Voices / Voicing Places: Dublin’s Contemporary Past
• Designed arts programme for inner-city study areas in Dublin City
• Established collaborative interfaces between arts, government and academic components
• Managed a team of 3 artists, 3 academics, 2 professionals and 1 government official


EU Transformations, A European Commission funded land art project
February 2008-Present
Director – Ireland’s Project Scenario – Sculpture in the Parklands, Co. Offaly
• Designed and developed 3 year project scenario
• Managed collaboration between Sculpture in the Parklands and University College Dublin
• Managed relationships with 12 other EU member-states’ project teams

Public sculpture commission for University College Dublin's Belfield Campus
August 2007-Present
Commissioning Curator, with Ruth Ferguson

Ábhar agus Meon contemporary art exhibition series (www.amexhibition.com)
April 2007-August 2008
Director & Curator
• Designed, developed and executed a international contemporary arts exhibition series
• Established collaborative relationships between the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Green On Red Gallery and University College Dublin
• Managed 23 artists and 6 part-time staff members
• Designed and curated 2 off-site gallery exhibitions
• Commissioned and curated a new installation for the Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Commissioned a new piece of permanent sculpture for University College Dublin


Sixth World Archaeological Congress (www.ucd.ie/wac-6)
October 2007- July 2008
Director, Arts & Entertainment
• Designed and implemented the arts and events programme for the Congress
• Managed 40 artists, performers and demonstrators and 3 part-time staff members
• Established the first ever World Archaeological Congress Fringe Festival
• Managed promotions and relatoins with 1800 Congress participants from 83 countries


Anúna, vocal/performance group (www.anuna.ie)
September 2002-March 2006
Performer & Coordinator
• Facilitated and performed on tours of Argentina, Belgium, Chile, England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, USA & Wales
• Coordinated and executed public relations and product sales at public performances


RESEARCH

Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin – Postdoctoral Fellow
May-October 2008
Focus: Independent research on contemporary material culture
Publication:
• ‘Art, archaeology & the contemporary: The Ábhar agus Meon exhibitions’


University of Notre Dame – NEH Keough Fellow
August 2007-May 2008
Focus: Independent research on the intellectual history of material culture
Publications:
• ‘Can you see me now?: Breaking the "fourth wall" of the analog:digital divide'
• ‘Heritage, identity & roots: Critiquing arborescent heritage & identity'


Humanities Lab, Stanford University – Critical Studies in New Media Group
January-May 2007
Focus: The politics of presence, new media and archaeological sensibilities
Publication:
• ‘Now, I can see you.: An intervention into “Can you see me now?” by
Blast Theory & the Mixed Reality Lab’
(read here: http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/NewMedia/278)


Digital Image Project, Trinity College Dublin – Research Associate
October 2006-July 2007
Focus: Design, scoping and development of a digital image repository
Publications:
• Images, representations & heritage: Beyond modern archaeology
• ‘Freud & Volkan: Psychoanalysis, group identities & archaeology’