Rotterdam Dialogues:  the Curators Symposium -- invited speaker at the Dialogues that took place in the Netherlands, March 5-7 2009. The symposia create space for a range of voices, and explore the practice of three of the central protagonists of the contemporary art world: the critic, the curator and the artist.

Robots R Us --- Bruce¹s essay accompanies the exhibition of Max Dean, Raffaello D'Andrea and Matt Donovan¹s The Robotic Chair, on view at The Children¹s Museum in Kitchener Ontario from Sept 20 2007 to Jan 6, 2008.  To read the article, click here.

The WORD is Coming to an End (Not a Misprint) -- a lecture at the Phoenix Art Museum on November 13 2007. The lecture scanned the history of art and culture and inspected the contemporary world to argue that we have entered a post-literate society.  For more, click here.

Art for Education -- Bruce delivered a talk on the the state of higher education teaching and learning in the arts in Brazil on October 17 2007.  For more, click here.

U of C Institute for Research in the Arts -- Bruce was invited to join the Advisory Committee for UCIRA. For more, click here.

Atom Egoyan installation in Turkey -- Curated by Bruce Ferguson - to read an article from Turkish Daily News about this work, click here.

BMW’s 16th Art Car Commission -- Bruce was on a jury of international curators who selected Olafur Eliasson for the commission. The project is on view at the San Francisco MOMA from Sept 8 2007 to Jan 13 2008. For more, click here.

The Art World is Flat -- Bruce was the keynote speaker at Symposium C6 in Chicago in April 2007. The symposium explored the ways that globalism is resulting in new hybrid cultural practices.  For more, click here.

Where there is smoke .... -- To read the article about artist Michael Joo by Bruce Ferguson, click here