Bruce was on a jury of international curators who selected Olafur Eliasson for BMW’s 16th Art Car Commission. The project was on view at the San Francisco MOMA from Sept 8 2007 to Jan 13 2008 and at the MoMa in NYC from April 20 to June 30 2008.

>> click here to read the press release on the BMW jury

>> click here to see the online version of Olafur's exhibition at MoMa

Bruce Ferguson¹sRobots R Us essay was published by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in conjunction with The Children¹s Museum.

The 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 September 20, 2007 to January 6, 2008.

"Robots R Us" has also been incorporated into "A Short Film about Falling", a collaboration between Peter Lynch and visual artist Max Dean which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007.

Bruce lectured at the Phoenix Art Museum on November 13th, 2007.

His lecture scans the history of art and culture and inspects the contemporary world to argue that we have entered a post-literate society. Using a language metaphor, he makes the claim that the history of the arts moves from a role like that of an adjective to a noun to a verb.  

In our current society, he argues that the arts are like “verbs” and that our sense of knowledge has shifted from a belief in text and language to a belief in images and sounds- a return through technologies of communication to, as predicted by Marshall McLuhan- the global village.

Bruce expands on the idea that "Media and Culture" have emerged at the center of this new definition of literacy and that traditional notions of knowledge are being superseded by experiences based in what can be called a "cultural literacy."

A new Esperanto is emerging where everyone is talking all at once, on official and unofficial terms and bypassing traditional authorities and institutions as a result.

The 6th Mercosul Biennial has its metaphor in Guimarães Rosa’s short story “A Terceira Margem do Rio” (The 3rd Bank of the River). The purpose of the exhibition was to reinforce cultural cooperation and integration in and out Latin America, following a model that is rooted in the Mercosur region, but that is not limited by it.

Dates: September 1 - November 18, 2007
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Theme: "A Terceira Margem do Rio" - The Third Shore of the River
Chief curator: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Curators: Luis Camnitzer, Alejandro Cesarco, Inés Katzenstein, Luis Enrique Perez Oramas, Moacir Dos Anjos, Ticio Escobar
Participants: 67 artists from the Mercosul region and other countries

>> click here to visit the Mercosul Biennial website

Bruce was invited to join the Advisory Committee for UCIRA. UCIRA supports artists at the University of California who are dedicated to "innovative approaches to form and content in the performing, media, and visual arts.

[UCIRA's] goal is to support imaginative projects that transcend boundaries, or that fall outside the present confines of arts practice." (quoted from the UCIRA website) The UCIRA provides grants to arts faculty and students for projects such as exhibitions, performances, symposia, etc.

Bruce was the keynote speaker at the Symposium C6 conference that took place in Chicago from April 26-28, 2007. The symposium explored the ways that globalism is resulting in new hybrid cultural practice.