ANTHONY DOWNEY

Anthony Downey sits on the editorial board of Third Text and has recently written essays for Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, ed. by Pam Skelton and Outi Remes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); Cultural Theory, ed. by David Oswell (Sage Publications, 2010); Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artist’s Writings (revised ed.), edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (University of California Press: California, 2009); Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, ed. by Hossein Amirsadeghi (Thames and Hudson: London, 2009); and Setting the Stage: Anthony Downey in Conversation with Yinka Shonibare, MBE (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008).

In 2009 he was appointed external assessor for the revalidation of the Royal College of Art's MA in Curating Contemporary Art programme and sat on the curatorial committee for Guest Projects in London. He has recently given talks at Tate Modern, Brooklyn Art Museum (New York), Tate Britain, CENDEAC (Murcia), British Museum, Manchester University, Courtauld, AAH (Glasgow, 2010), and has given interviews for CNN’s African Voices programme and the BBC’s Islam and the Popular Imagination. He will also contribute to Iran Beyond its Borders (1960-2010) as part of the Bruges Cultural project “Horizons” in October 2010. He is currently researching a book on aesthetics, politics and ethics.

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